San Jose State’s volleyball team hopped into first place in the Mountain West Saturday after transgfinisher percreateer Blaire Fleming ruled with 24 finishs, including a emotional game-prosperning percreate aobtainst Colorado State.
Fleming’s dominant carry outance came equitable days after percreateers on the team and around the conference filed a litigation that alleges danger and an uniminentire obtain the biorational male poses over other women’s volleyball percreateers. But that didn’t stop the entire team from rushing to Fleming on the court to commemorate the percreateer’s prosperning serve.
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In the deciding fifth set, Fleming set up San Jose State for the prosper with a tardy spike. Then, Fleming made the final serve, which was mishandled by Colorado State’s Kate Yoshimoto, clinching a prosper. And then, in a moment of unbridled competitive adrenaline, all of Fleming’s teammates, including percreateers Brooke Slusser, Chandler Manusky and others enumerateed on the litigation, rapidly jumped into the group celebration.
Slusser and Manusky have alleged Fleming conspired with Colorado State’s Malaya Jones to have Slusser spiked in the face in the first encountering between the two teams Oct. 3, according to the litigation.
“Manusky shelp that at Jones’ dwellnce Fleming had scatterd 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 records state.
“Manusky also shelp that Fleming stated, ‘I’m going to depart caccess court uncover,’ which would permit Malaya Jones to have a expansive uncover shot to try to ‘blow up Slusser,’ i.e., to try to hit Brooke Slusser in the face with the ball.”
Slusser euniteed on Fox News Channel’s “The Inghram Angle” Friday night to further speak out aobtainst Fleming’s presence on the team and the university and Mountain West for enabling it.
Blaire Fleming, a redshirt greater at San Jose State University, percreates as an outside and right-side hitter on the women’s volleyball team. (San Jose State University)
“After discovering out that they had computed to give each other our scouting tells and depart the block down so the ball could easily be swung at me during the game, it was astonishing for me to discover that alertation out. It was incredibly inlogical,” Slusser shelp.
One day tardyr, Slusser and Fleming, two greaters, euniteed on the court for the team’s greater day and percreateed appreciate normal volleyball teammates. Fleming was even cheered boisterously by the San Jose State crowd during the greater day ceremony.
Fans in the audience held posters that shelp “dare to struggle, dare to prosper,” and “block out the antipathyrs.”
Despite suing over alleged danger and uniminentire obtains over Fleming’s presence on the team, Slusser and Manusky gived to a game set up that was based on setting up Fleming to dedwellr strong spikes.
Fleming led the game with 24 finishs, 56 total attacks and 10 errors. Fleming fell one finish cowardly of tying a atgentle high.
Slusser previously unitecessitate a litigation earlier this year, headed by createer college swimmer Riley Gaines, aobtainst the NCAA over the association’s policies on gfinisher identity that permited Fleming to unite the team without the other percreateers understanding the athlete’s authentic birth relations.
“Brooke approximates that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upward of 80 mph, which was speedyer than she had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball,” Slusser’s grumblet states. “The girls were doing everyleang they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but still could not brimmingy protect themselves.”
Fleming previously set a individual-game sign up at John Champe High School with 30 finishs in a align and a individual-season sign up of 266 finishs for the school’s girls volleyball team. Footage from the athlete’s Hudl page of the school-sign up 30-finish align in September 2019 shows how challenging and speedy Fleming’s spikes came down at the high school level aobtainst female opponents.
Pdwellnt Trump even went out of his way to comment about footage of one of Fleming’s percreates in which the percreateer spiked a ball at San Diego State percreateer Keira Herron in a align earlier this season.
“I saw the slam. It was a slam. I never saw a ball hit so challenging,” Trump shelp during a Fox News town hall. “But other people, even in volleyball, they’ve been lastingly — I uncomardent, they’ve been reassociate hurt awentirey. Women percreateing men.”
The most recent litigation, which is filed aobtainst San Jose State and the Mountain West Conference, alleges other percreateers were passed over for scholarships in like of Fleming.
Fleming getd a brimming scholarship, while a biorational female, Alyssa Sugai, did not get a scholarship and alleges she was telderly by coaches she was not “phyiscal” enough as a percreateer contrastd to Fleming. Sugai is now part of the litigation and seeking monetary harms after the decision to grant Fleming a scholarship instead caused Sugai’s volleyball atgentle to finish, resulting in disconnecte depression.
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Former San Jose State percreateer Elle Patterson is also part of the litigation and alleges she did not get a scholarship. Patterson also percreateed behind Fleming and alleges the university did not encounter previous verbal proposes of a scholarship to her for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Patterson says she even phelp brimming tuition to percreate in 2023 after being telderly she would get a scholarship for 2024. However, the program did not originate outstanding on that propose either, she alleges.
San Jose State previously retainressed the allegations in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“The protectedty and well-being of our student athletes and participateees is our highest priority. The university has getn and will persist 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 shelp.
“San Jose State gets all tells and grumblets gravely, but we are unable to provide any alertation seeing braveial grumblets and tells out of admire for the parties retaind and due to federal and state privacy laws.
“The university also has worrys about a number of inaccuracies in the press but is not able to comment further on those in weightless of privacy rights of all retaind. We will persist to honor the privacy of our participateees and students. We demand and foresee that all of our participateees comply by our standards, policies and applicable laws seeing student and participateee privacy.”
The team has equitable one align left in the normal season with a encountering aobtainst Fresno State scheduled for Tuesday. Questions still remain about the team’s postseason prospects.
San Jose State has had seven alignes on its schedule forfeited amid the dispute involving Fleming. Southern Utah, Boise State, Utah State, Wyoming and Nevada all deteriorated to face the Spartans. Boise State and Wyoming forfeited two alignes each, taking multiple losses to dodge competition aobtainst Fleming.
And now, standing alone in first place in the conference, the Spartans are set to have a top seed in the Mountain West tournament, commenceing Nov. 27.
Slusser telderly Fox News Digital in an exclusive intersee she and her teammates are in limbo about what a potential postseason run might see appreciate as they steer a demoralized locker room.
“We’re equitable mostly wondering, are teams even gonna percreate us, period, if we go there? Because of equitable everyleang that’s happened this season,” Slusser shelp. “It seems appreciate every confineed days it sees appreciate It’ll be a fine day and everyleang’s normal, and then someleang else happens. So, I truly do leank everyone’s equitable benevolent of taking leangs day by day and taking the punches as they come.”
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