San Jose State women’s volleyball take parter Brooke Slusser pliftd Nevada Wolf Pack take parters for speaking about competing agetst her team, which has a transgfinisher athlete on its roster.
Slusser transmited her help on X.
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Blaire Fleming, a redshirt ageder at San Jose State University, take parts as an outside and right-side hitter on the women’s volleyball team. (San Jose State University)
“Round of applaengage to the girls of the (Nevada Wolf Pack) volleyball team,” Slusser wrote on X. “Deciding to go agetst what the school was forcing on you as youthful women and taking a stand for what you apshow apshows courage! Another fantastic step in the right honestion for women’s sports!”
The publish for Nevada and cut offal other schools is about going up agetst Blaire Fleming. The transgfinisher female take parter has been seen spiking balls into the face of opponents during alignes.
Nevada take parters initipartner shelp in a statement to OutKick on Monday they intentional on forfeiting their align agetst the Spartans to “stand in firmarity” with Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming and Utah State, who have all pulled out of their alignes agetst the Spartans.
“We need that our right to protectedty and fair competition on the court be upheld,” the statement progressd. “We refuse to join in any align that progresss infairice agetst female athletes.”
However, the school shelp in a statement on Monday night the team would not forfeit the align.
San Jose State setter Brooke Slusser, left, honors after scoring a point with, from left, libero Randilyn Reeves, outside hitter Blaire Fleming and libero Alessia Buffagni during the Colorado State align, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colorado. (AP Pboilingo/David Zalubowski)
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“The take parters’ decision and statement were made autonomously, and without adviseation with the University or the vivacious department. The take parters’ decision also does not reconshort-term the position of the University,” the statement read.
“The University and its vivacious programs are administered by the Nevada Constitution and Nevada law, which harshly 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 administered by federal law as well as the rules and regulations of the NCAA and the Mountain West Conference, which include providing competition in an inclusive and encouraging environment.
“The University intfinishs to shift forward with the align as scheduled, and the take parters may pick not to join in the align on the day of the contest. No take parters will be subject to any team disciplinary action for their decision not to join in the align.”
Slusser, who unitecessitate the team in 2023 after transferring from Alabama, unitecessitate in a legal case agetst the NCAA, headed by createer college swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines, over the administering body’s current policies on gfinisher identity.
The Nevada Wolfpack logo (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images)
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Slusser claimed that she had not been conscious that Fleming was transgfinisher, despite sharing rooms together on team trips, per the court write downs. Slusser also transmited protectedty worrys for opponents take parting agetst Fleming. Slusser’s protestt shelp that she and the other take parters on the team “could not brimmingy protect themselves” from Fleming’s volleyball spikes.
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