ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the case study of a Ali Greey. Ali's account reveals how their becoming within and beyond sport was not only mutually constitutive but also interdependent. Ali's auto-ethnographic reflections are informed by their recollection of events, as well as unstructured journal entries they kept from 2003 until 2018. Ali's case offers an account of the complexity of strategies that a gender nonbinary elite boxer may use to navigate a sporting environment and society that expects binaric expressions of gender. The chapter examines Ali's words to chronologically present their three sporting career phases: first, their entrance into sport and volleyball; second, their entrance and progression in boxing; and, finally, their retirement from elite boxing and transition into university studies. Ali's horizon for sexuality and gender is less prominent throughout this phase of their athletic career.
