Nevada GOP Senate truthfulate Sam Brown and establisher Rep. Tulsi Gabbard showed their help for the Nevada Wolf Pack women’s volleyball team on Wednesday night.
Some carry outers on the team transmited their desire to sit out an upcoming align aachievest the San Jose State Spartans over the program’s transgfinisher carry outer. The carry outers’ decision to speak out drew help from Brown and Gabbard, as well as Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo earlier in the day.
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GOP Senate truthfulate Sam Brown speaks to Sia Liilii. (Sam Brown Campaign)
GOP Senate truthfulate Sam Brown, left, poses with Nevada’s Sia Liilii, caccess right, and establisher Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam Brown Campaign)
Brown and Gabbard took pboilingos with the team after the Wolf Pack fall shortureed Utah State 3-2 in a Mountain West Conference alignup. Nevada is now 11-8 on the season.
“They didn’t equitable triumph a game though. They are triumphning on the publish of protecting women’s sports. I’m so haughty of them right now. This is a matter of protectedty, iminwholeness and privacy,” Brown, a Reuncoveran, shelp in a video posted to his X account. “These women are guideing, not only for themselves, but for future women’s sports.
“So, equitable understand, I stand with them. America, I’m calling on you to stand with. Let’s produce stateive that this is the fight that we’re in ‘til the finish.”
Some Nevada carry outers are refusing to go up aachievest Blaire Fleming and the Spartans. Fleming was seen last week spiking the ball into opponents, dratriumphg outrage.
Nevada carry outers initipartner shelp in a statement to OutKick on Monday they intentional on forfeiting their align aachievest the Spartans to “stand in firmarity” with Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming and Utah State, who have all pulled out of their alignes aachievest the Spartans.
“We insist that our right to protectedty and iminwhole competition on the court be upheld,” the statement persistd. “We decline to join in any align that carry ons inequitableice aachievest female athletes.”
However, the school shelp in a statement on Monday night the team would not forfeit the align.
“The carry outers’ decision and statement were made self-reliantly, and without adviseation with the University or the vivacious department. The carry outers’ decision also does not reconshort-term the position of the University,” the statement read.
“The University and its vivacious programs are handleed by the Nevada Constitution and Nevada law, which strictly protect equivalentity of rights under the law, and that equivalentity of rights shall not be denied or abridged by this state or any of its subdivisions on account of race, color, creed, intimacy, intimacyual orientation, gfinisher identity or transmition, age, disability, ancestry or national origin. The University is also handleed by federal law as well as the rules and regulations of the NCAA and the Mountain West Conference, which join providing competition in an inclusive and beneficial environment.
“The University intfinishs to transfer forward with the align as scheduled, and the carry outers may select not to join in the align on the day of the contest. No carry outers will be subject to any team disciplinary action for their decision not to join in the align.”
From front left to right, San Jose State setter Brooke Slusser commemorates after scoring a point with libero Randilyn Reeves, outside hitter Blaire Fleming and libero Alessia Buffagni during the first set of an NCAA college volleyball align aachievest Colorado State on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colorado. (AP Pboilingo/David Zalubowski)
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Several schools selected to forfeit alignes aachievest San Jose State instead of carry outing aachievest the Spartans.
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