This Volleyball Story Will Make You Cry...

This Volleyball Story Will Make You Cry... Deja McClendon (born 27 June 1992) is an American volleyball player.She played at the 2019 FIVB
Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.She played for Penn State University's women's volleyball team, LKS Lodz, Delta Informatica Trentino, and Minas Tênis Clube.

Playing in foreign places, McClendon became accustomed to experiencing extended stares and glances. She chalked it up to people being unfamiliar with seeing a tall Black woman. Especially since 2018 when McClendon, after a lifetime struggle with alopecia, decided to shave her head.

Those factors led McClendon to one of the most uncomfortable experiences of her career in 2019, when a viewer watching an online broadcast of her game as a member of the Minas Tênis Clube team in Brazil posted this comment in the game’s chat box: “Minas, sub the bald monkey off.”

McClendon felt alone, subjected to racism in a foreign country. But as the incident set off a firestorm, she became determined to pursue legal attempts to hold the person who wrote the comment accountable.

Today, McClendon, 28, is back in the United States playing with Athletes Unlimited, a new professional league. She shares her story of combating racism within her sport with The Undefeated.

What Power Volleyball has to say to this amazing person, first of all, and then the volleyball player: Never give up, you have the support of us and all our fans. We will always be there for you.

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