Too ‘Intimidating’ to Coach? Former ASU Volleyball Coach’s Gender Bias Claims Move Forward

By Clare Maness, Esq. For volleyball fans, League One Volleyball or LOVB is building a holistic volleyball ecosystem to serve athletes, from the club to pro levels (LOVB, n.d.-a), and the head coach for LOVB Houston is Sanja Tomašević (LOVB, n.d.-b), a woman with decades of amateur, collegiate, and professional experience in the sport, in the United States, Europe, and Türkiye (LOVB, 2025; Tomašević v. Arizona State University, 2026). Coach Tomašević, however, didn’t find herself workin