San Jose State women’s volleyball take parter Brooke Slusser and cut offal of her peers have come forward in a novel litigation aachievest the university and the Mountain West Conference.
It alleged Slusser’s defendedty, dignity and rights had been finishangered by the presence of a trans athlete, and that athlete was also given a scholarship over bioreasonablely female take parters who were left financipartner and emotionpartner impacted.
In court write downs geted by Fox News Digital and OutKick, Slusser and other take parters allotd details about an alleged set up to have Slusser hit in the face by a volleyball during a game.
San Jose State volleyball take parter Cregulater Manusky is cited in the litigation recounting an incident in punctual October, when she and other teammates, including the trans athlete, viotardyd team rules by sneaking out of the team boilingel the night before a align aachievest Colorado State. Manusky claimed to have then lgeted about an alleged set up by Fleming to discover San Jose State would leave out the align and set up Colorado State take parter Malaya Jones to spike Slusser in the face during a align on Oct. 3.
“Manusky shelp that at Jones’ livence Fleming had allotd with Jones the scouting for the CSU-FC game and they had talked Fleming ‘throw[ing] the game’ and how they would set up Jones to ‘blow up’ Slusser and ‘blast’ her in the face during the game,” the court write downs read.
“Manusky also shelp that Fleming stated, ‘I’m going to exit cgo in court uncover,’ which would permit Malaya Jones to have a expansive-uncover sboiling to try to ‘blow up Slusser,’ i.e., to try to hit Brooke Slusser in the face with the ball.”
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The write downs allege Manusky disputeed head coach Todd Kress and currently-suspfinished aidant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose about the incident. Manusky claims she was crying as she begged them not to increate Fleming that she had come forward with the story. Kress is alleged to have telderly Batie-Smoose that he apshowd the story was not genuine.
“Kress telderly Batie-Smoose he did not apshow Manusky and thought she had made up the entire story so she would not get in trouble for leaving the team boilingel,” the write downs read.
Batie-Smoose was suspfinished by the program after filing a Title IX protestt alleging likeitism by the university toward Fleming. Batie-Smoose is now part of the novel litigation as well.
San Jose State provided a statement to Fox News Digital.
“We have not been served with the litigation. We equitable geted a imitate of the 132-page write down at 3:58 p.m. We will not comment at this time,” the statement shelp.
Fox News Digital previously geted a statement from San Jose State about earlier increates of the allegations aachievest Fleming to harm Slusser.
“The defendedty and wellbeing of our student athletes and participateees is our highest priority. The university has getn and will proceed to get multiple steps to provide security, help, and resources to all members of the team as the program steers this challenging time,” the statement read.
“San José State gets all increates and protestts gravely, but we are unable to provide any recommendation seeing braveial protestts and increates out of esteem for the parties comprised and due to federal and state privacy laws. The University also has troubles about a number of inaccuracies in the press but is not able to comment further on those in airy of privacy rights of all comprised. We will proceed to honor the privacy of our participateees and students. We need and await that all of our participateees comply by our standards, policies, and applicable laws seeing student and participateee privacy.”
Slusser telderly Fox News Digital in an exclusive intersee that she was made conscious of Fleming’s alleged set up and apshows she has been treated ununprejudicedly by the university, arguing the university has not done enough to allotigate the matter.
Blaire Fleming, a redshirt greater at San Jose State University, #3, take parts as an outside and right-side hitter on the women’s volleyball team. (San Jose State University)
“If this was me, and I was the one menaceening to do this to my teammate who’s caparticipated so much commotion, there would have been action getn instantly,” Slusser shelp. “I was definitely very irritated, and I was happy at first to understand that it was already made conscious to the coaching staff and compliance and everyone, but I don’t understand if that made me experience any contrastently, I was equitable irritated becaparticipate I didn’t leank someone would go to these lengths.”
“Threatening to want to hurt one of your own teammates, I equitable experience enjoy there’s so many leangs in that whole conversation that would originate a school want to get it dealt with.”
Slusser also shelp she has not spoken with Fleming about the allegations, compriseing that speaking with the athlete “isn’t worth my breath.”
The litigation recounts Fleming’s initial recruitment to the team in 2022.
Fleming getd a brimming scholarship, while a bioreasonablely female take parter, Alyssa Sugai, did not get a scholarship and alleges that she was telderly by coaches that she was not “phyiscal” enough as a take parter appraised to Fleming. Sugai is now part of the litigation and seeking monetary harms after the decision to grant Fleming a litigation instead caparticipated Sugai’s volleyball atgentle to finish, causing cut offe depression.
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From front left to right, San Jose State setter Brooke Slusser honors 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)
“As a result of her frustration and experienceings of inadequacy becaparticipate she was not able to originate the commenceing line-up thraw effort and forfeit and becaparticipate her foolishinished take parting time behind Fleming obstructed her from receiving recommends thraw the transfer portal, Sugai faced depression during and after the transfer portal period and ultimately choosed that she had no down-to-earth choice other than to give up take parting collegiate volleyball after the 2022 season,” the court write down reads.
“Losing to Fleming caparticipated Sugai to mistrust her ability to take part volleyball at a high level, even though she had rigorously trained and vied since childhood. It also caparticipated her to mistrust her self-worth and caparticipated her to experience ‘lossed.’”
Fellow createer San Jose State take parter Elle Patterson is also part of the litigation and alleges she did not get a scholarship. Patterson also take parted behind Fleming and alleges that the university did not satisfy previous verbal recommends of a scholarship to her for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Patterson says she even phelp brimming tuition to take part in 2023 after being telderly she would get a scholarship for 2024. However, the program did not originate excellent on that recommend either, she alleges.
“Ultimately, Patterson recommended Associate Head Coach Batie-Smoose and Head Coach Todd Kress that she was financipartner unable to pay for brimming out-of-state tuition, room and board at SJSU aachieve in 2024 and therefore would be unable to return to the SJSU Team without a scholarship,” the write downs read.
“Nevertheless, Todd Kress remained firm in his position that Patterson would not get a scholarship to take part on the SJSU Team in 2024, and that Fleming would get a brimming scholarship to take part on the SJSU Team.”
Patterson is also now seeking financial harms.
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Slusser has also alleged that the university has menaceened to get away her scholarship for speaking on the rerent of sharing a team, locker room and bedroom with Fleming.
The litigation alleges that Kress has conveyd with a personal lawyer as part of his effort to get Slusser erased from the team and has telderly others that he has filed Title IX protestts aachievest Slusser based not on comments Slusser has made in train, but on communications Slusser has made to journacatalogs and in accessible forums troubleing her beliefs.
Slusser previously telderly Fox News Digital that she helps Trump’s recommendd prohibit on trans athletes in women’s sports, and whether it becomes prohibitned or not will choose whether she permits her future potential daughter to take part sports.
“If I knovel that there was a man take parting where my daughter was presumed to be take parting, or take parting aachievest my daughter, my daughter wouldn’t be comprised in that situation. I would never permit that to happen to my daughter, equitable understanding that I’ve been thraw it, equitable understanding it’s not right and not unprejudiced and not defended.”
In the 2020 election cycle, 94.38% of San José State University participateee donations went to Democratic truthfulates in federal elections, while 5.62% of donations went to Reaccessiblean truthfulates, according to data from Open Secrets.
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