Alan Gendreau

As of 2015, Gendreau is a flight attendant working for American Airlines.

Scouting reports leading up to the 2012 NFL Draft rated Gendreau as an average kicker. With only 62 field goal attempts in college—just over one per game—he did not receive attention from many NFL teams. He also did not have an agent and he did not know how to obtain one. He went undrafted. Gendreau stayed in shape through 2013, hoping to become the first openly gay NFL football player. Outsports, a Web site specializing in gays and sports, released his story about being a gay football player on April 23, 2013. "I'm a kicker that happens to be gay," Gendreau said. "It's a part of who I am, and not everything I am. I just want to be known as a normal kicker."

He has a youtube channel created in 2012 with about 2 thousand followers and a total viewership of about 140 thousand. The contents features his own renditions and cover to several famous songs including Home by Michael Buble created and edited more professionally.

In his senior year in 2011, Gendreau again played in every game that season. However, he had a tough opening game against Purdue. He had two of his three field goal attempts blocked, including the game-tying 47-yard attempt at the end that could have sent the 27–24 game into overtime. His holder Josh Davis said the blocks "weren't [Gendreau's] fault. It was a total breakdown in protection." Overall, Gendreau missed four out of five field goals to start the season. Despite his strong second half, interest from the NFL waned. He finished his college career with 295 points, the most in Sun Belt Conference history.

In his junior year in 2010, Gendreau converted a 55-yard field goal in their winning game against Louisiana–Lafayette. The kick was the second longest in both conference and school history. Gendreau was named Sunbelt Conference's Special Teams Player of the Week, the second time he had earned the honor. He was again named to the league's All-Sun Belt first team.

Against the Maryland Terrapins in 2009, Gendreau made a 19-yard field goal as time expired, quieting the Maryland home crowd of 43,167 at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Maryland. They defeated Maryland for the second second-straight season, winning 32–31 in an exciting game that went back and forth. It was Middle Tennessee's first road victory over a BCS-conference opponent since 2005. Gendreau's winning kick earned him the nickname, "Ice". In a 37–21 win over North Texas, he scored 13 points including field goals from 20, 31, and 48 yards.

In 2008, Gendreau began his college career with Middle Tennessee, who was led by head coach Rick Stockstill. Gendreau came out to his peers in his freshman year. That year, he had a boyfriend, whom he met on Facebook, who had played baseball in college. Gendreau was not the object of homophobia from his teammates, and his sexual orientation did not cause any issues. One teammate offered to protect Gendreau from any potential gay-bashing.

He hit four field goals in their 24–14 winning game against Maryland on September 6, 2008. On October 1 in a nationally televised home game on ESPN2, the team rallied to score a game-tying touchdown against Florida Atlantic as time expired. Florida Atlantic called two consecutive timeouts in an attempt to disrupt Gendreau's concentration, but he made the game-winning extra point for a 14–13 Blue Raiders, and the fans subsequently stormed the field. During the season, he made a then-school record eight consecutive field goals. The streak ended on a failed 46-yard attempt into the wind in the season finale at Louisiana. He was named to the Sun Belt All-Freshman team by both The Daily News Journal and Rivals.com.

Alan Scott Gendreau (born May 27, 1989) is an American football player who last played college football for the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders. The placekicker was openly gay to his teammates. He ended his college career as the leading scorer in Sun Belt Conference history.