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Ex-Stanford Swimmer Accuses Team of Homophobia

In an Instagram post, NCAA champion swimmer Abrahm Devine said he was kicked off the Stanford team because he's gay.

Two-time NCAA champion Abrahm DeVine is accusing his former team at Stanford of homophobia and claiming that he was kicked off the team because he is gay, NBC News reported.

“Plain and simple: There are surface-level reasons I was kicked off the Stanford swim team, but I can tell you with certainty that it comes down to the fact that I am gay,” the 2019 graduate of the university wrote in an Instagram post Monday.

The coaches for Stanford men’s and women’s swim teams, Greg Meehan and Dan Schemmel, denied DeVine’s claims in a joint statement shared with the swimming news site SwimSwam on Tuesday.

“Abe wasn’t invited back to train with us this fall, as a postgraduate, for reasons entirely unrelated to his sexuality,” they stated. “We take pride in the inclusivity and supportiveness that exists on both our men’s and women’s teams, but we will continue to strive, as always, to improve those aspects of our culture.”

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