The Cal State Northridge player has attracted millions of views for his hair flicks and dismissive waves. He says navigating the fallout has been a career of its own<\/p>\n
\u201cI think people are really enamored with me because you don\u2019t often see someone like me \u2013 animated, flamboyant \u2013 but still able to back it up on the volleyball court,\u201d says Jordan Lucas, the outside hitter for Cal State Northridge\u2019s men\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
Although college volleyball has a devoted following and can attract big crowds \u2013 92,000 fans went to see Nebraska take on Omaha<\/a> in 2023 \u2013 it doesn\u2019t usually attract the same attention as basketball or football. That changed last month though when clips of Lucas\u2019s \u201cflamboyant\u201d play \u2013 he\u2019s fond of celebrating with a flick of his hair or a dismissive wave at his opponents \u2013 went viral, amassing millions of views<\/a> on social media. College athletes enjoying social media fame is hardly new: stars such as Paige Bueckers, Harper Murray, Olivia Dunne and Shedeur Sanders all had their viral moments. But Lucas\u2019s case is different. It isn\u2019t just about the highlights, it\u2019s about the conversation surrounding them. Lucas is gay, and that fact has become inseparable from how audiences engage with his game.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Cal State Northridge player has attracted millions of views for his hair flicks and dismissive waves. He says navigating the fallout has been a career of its own \u201cI think people are really enamored with me because you don\u2019t often see someone like me \u2013 animated, flamboyant \u2013 but still able to back it … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}