JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jaguars assistant energy and conditioning coach Kevin Maxen has develop into the primary male coach in main American males’s skilled sports activities to publicly come out as homosexual, telling Outsports.com he made the choice as a result of he did not wish to cover who he was any longer and to presumably encourage others in comparable conditions.

“I don’t want to feel like I have to think about it anymore,” Maxen stated within the piece revealed Thursday afternoon. “I don’t want to feel like I have to lie about who I am seeing or why I am living with someone else.

“I wish to be vocal in assist of individuals dwelling how they wish to reside, however I additionally wish to simply reside and never really feel worry about how individuals will react.”

Maxen has been with the Jaguars since the 2021 season. He previously was a strength coach at Baylor and Vanderbilt and also worked as an intern at Iowa and Army.

Maxen told Outsports.com he is sharing more of his personal life now after feeling he couldn’t do that when he was at team events where others in the Jaguars organization introduced and shared information about their families. Maxen has been in a committed relationship for more than two years.

“You produce other coaches who’ve vital others, and so they’re speaking about their vital others,” Maxen said. “And I felt responsible that I could not do the identical factor, that I used to be letting myself down.

“I want the person I’m with to be able to share that with me.”

According to Outsports.com, Maxen is the primary coach in main American males’s skilled sports activities to return out as homosexual. Outside linebacker Carl Nassib grew to become the first active NFL player to come out as gay and to play in a recreation in 2021.