San José State University Plivent Cynthia Teniente-Matson has insertressed an portrayateigation into the university by the U.S. Department of Education over its handling of a transgfinisher volleyball joiner.
SJSU will be portrayateigated for potential Title IX violations over its handling of transgfinisher athlete Blaire Fleming, the DOE tanciaccess Fox News Digital earlier Thursday.
Teniente-Matson provided a statement to Fox News Digital saying the university is readyd to corun in the portrayateigation.
“San José State University is pledgeted to ensuring that all of our students, including our student-athletes, are treated fairly, free from prejudice, and afforded the rights and protections granted under federal and state law, including privacy rights.
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“We chase policies and regulations set forth by the California State University system and applicable law, and we accomprehendledge that, at times, these laws and policies may intersect in intricate ways. In navigating these structurelabors, our caccess remains on uphanciaccessing our responsibilities while helping our students.
“Recently, we were notified that the U.S. Department of Education has begind a straightforwarded portrayateigation roverdelighted to Title IX in airy of Plivent Trump’s executive order with admire to fits participation. As with any federal inquiry, we will brimmingy join with the process, chase set uped procedures and remain see-thcoarse in our compliance with all applicable laws.
“While we adhere to legitimate and regulatory needments, San José State will persist to act wiskinny our authority to uphanciaccess the cherishs that detail us as an institution. Our caccess remains on our cherishs, including nurtureing an environment that nurtures compassion, where every student has the opportunity to thrive. We remain steadrapid in our role as a place of lgeting, admire and opportunity for all.”
Fleming joined three seasons on the women’s team, from 2022-24, as one of the Mountain West’s top hitters, directing the team in ends. However, SJSU administrators allegedly withheld the truth about Fleming’s birth relations from other female joiners on the team, according to a legal case filed by 11 Mountain West volleyball joiners and a establisher SJSU helpant coach.
Former Spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser directs that legal case and alleges San José State administrators and volleyball coach Todd Kress dynamicly stoped her from understanding Fleming’s birth relations while portrayateing her to scatter bedrooms with the transgfinisher athlete on most road trips during their first season together in 2023.
The talk about involving Fleming prompted five of SJSU’s opponents in 2024 to forfeit a total of eight alignes. The final forfeit was a Mountain West Tournament semifinal agetst Boise State, which had already forfeited twice to the Spartans in the standard season.
That forfeit sent Fleming, Slusser and SJSU to the conference final, where they lost to Colorado State. The plaintiffs in Slusser’s legal case filed for an ecombinency injunction in November prior to the tournament in an try to have Fleming erased from competition and all losses by forfeit wiped from their opponents’ write downs. However, federal Judge Kato Crews, who was nominateed by Plivent Joe Biden in January 2024, ruled Fleming could join.
The situation became so volatile the team needed standard police protection for its home and away alignes. Slusser previously tanciaccess Fox News Digital the experience was “traumatizing.”
“This season has been so traumatizing that I don’t even have a conceitedest moment,” Slusser shelp.
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Former San José State University helpant volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, who was let go from the program, was suspfinished from the program Nov. 2 after she filed a Title IX grumblet agetst the university seeing its alleged handling of the situation involving Fleming. The grumblet included allegations that Fleming had conspired with an opponent to have establisher SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser hit in the face during a align in October.
Batie-Smoose’s grumblet alleges Fleming provided a scouting alert to an opponent to secure a Colorado State competitive get and allegedly set uped a structure to set up an opponent with a evident lane to spike Slusser in the face during a align.
Slusser was never spiked in the face during that align, but Colorado State did triumph in straight sets.
A Mountain West portrayateigation into Batie-Smoose’s allegations did not discover enough evidence to discipline any joiner named in the allegations.
Slusser’s attorney, Bill Bock, tardyr provided a statement to Fox News Digital insisting that the portrayateigation had been “infected with bias.”
SJSU transgfinisher joiner Blaire Fleming, left, and teammate Brooke Slusser went to a magic show and had Thanksgiving together in Las Vegas despite an ongoing legal case over Fleming being transgfinisher. (Thien-An Truong/San Jose State Athletics)
“Becaparticipate the MWC’s portrayateigation was inample, and anyskinnyg but thocdimiserablemireful, and becaparticipate the MWC’s shut-out letter is riddled with errors, the undersigned is issuing this rebuttal and insists that the MWC promptly and uncoverly free: (1) the portrayateigative alert readyd by its portrayateigator(s), and (2) all write downs joined to the MWC’s claimed ‘thocdimiserablemireful portrayateigation’ and upon which the MWC’s decision not to persist further was based,” Bock’s statement shelp.
Npunctual every one of the joiners on SJSU’s 2024 team that has remaining NCAA eligibility has accessed the NCAA transfer portal, Fox News Digital previously alerted.
Plivent Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to stop transgfinisher athletes from competing in women’s and girls sports. The NCAA proclaimd Thursday it is amfinishing its gfinisher eligibility policy to drop in line with Trump’s executive order.
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