OutSport Toronto Blog

One of my water polo teamates, Steven Bereznai, is a journalist and is writing some profiles about Canadian athletes headed to this year's Outgames in Antwerp in August for Xtra magazine.  He is looking to profile a lesbian athlete who is headed to the games.

It was a cold Sunday. At the end of my swimming training with the Downtown Swimming Club, Phillip and Lucy approached me to see if I was interested to be the volunteer coordinator for All OUT Swim 2013. Naively, I accepted the position. It seemed to be fun. I did not have any idea about the scope and the amount of work needed. Nonetheless, I was very happy that I would be able to meet a lot of people, especially because I am new in Toronto and I do not know a lot of people.

My name is Chim and I am the volunteer coordinator for All OUT Swim 2013, a swimming competition on April 20th 2013 (Saturday) at the University of Toronto - Athletic Centre. We need volunteers to be our timers, stroke and turn judges, greeters, helpers to set up results posts, people to set up and wrap up the event, etc. It is very simple to register as volunteer, just go to http://goo.gl/XetnR and ...

OutSport Toronto has had the pleasure and privilege of working with some fantastic partners over the last year, and U of T's Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education is certainly at the forefront of that group.  Yesterday, the Faculty launched its first Athlete Ally Week, one of several ways the U of T sports community is speaking out against homophobia and creating ...