College Basketball Coach Matt Lynch Comes Out
While in quarantine, college basketball coach Matt Lynch came out in an op-ed.
“It's been a little over two weeks since our staff was officially let go at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington,” he wrote in the letter. “And with the added difficulties of the [ongoing pandemic,] I have begun to realize that I may not have a job in college basketball next year.”
“This is a scary time for everyone and the unknown is always difficult to deal with,” he continued. “But I have made a decision to use this time to become completely open and honest with myself and the people around me. I'm gay.”
He went on to write that “I don’t know why I assumed being gay was wrong, but I tried to just be 'normal' (that is, straight). But I didn’t realize the effect that would have on my long-term health. Being gay weighed on my mind, day and night, more and more. So I would just work harder at coaching, and bury those thoughts and feelings.
“I think it’s important for me to be publicly out,” Lynch continued. “Not only for me and my mental health, but for anyone else out there like me.
“The goal isn’t to come out of the closet, it’s to eliminate the closet,” he concluded.
As ‘Out’ writes, Lynch has coached both women's and men's college basketball teams for a decade. The 29-year-old was most recently the assistant coach and director of basketball operations at University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
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