An upcoming disputed NCAA women’s volleyball align will shift its location over 200 miles from Reno, Nevada to the Bay Area in California.
San Jose State’s upcoming game agetst the University of Nevada has been at the cgo in of a national argue on transgfinisher inclusion in women’s sports. And now, a align that was previously going to be applyed on Nevada’s home campus will be applyed at San Jose’s Yosh Uchida Hall.
“The Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball align between Nevada and San José State University scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 26, has been shiftd from Reno, Nevada, to San José, California. The decision to shift the location of the align has been made in the best interest of both programs and the well-being of the student-athletes, coaches, dynamic staff and spectators. The decision has been made with the approval of the Mountain West Conference,” read a joint statement that was geted by Fox News Digital from both San Jose State and Nevada’s spokespeople.
There is no secure that this align will even be applyed.
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Nevada Wolf Pack women’s volleyball applyers with Sam Brown and Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam Brown Campaign)
Nevada applyers have conveyed their desire not to apply the align, both personally to their dynamic honestor and accessiblely to the press. San Jose State has a applyer that has been identified as a transgfinisher, and another applyer included in a legal case agetst the NCAA over never being increateed that her teammate was a bioreasonable male. But the program has not forfeited the align officipartner, citing state law.
Four other opposing programs forfeited their alignes agetst the Spartans amid the ongoing argue. Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming and Utah State all officipartner forfeited their scheduled games agetst San Jose State.
Meanwhile, security troubles and dangers agetst San Jose State applyers have made traveling for alignes a hazardous finisheavor for the lady Spartans. San Jose State previously verifyed to Fox News Digital that police protection was summarizeateed to the team, lowly after getting the first novels of an opponent forfeiting, when Southern Utah proclaimd it would not apply its align agetst the Spartans in September.
San Jose State applyer Brooke Slusser has joined a legal case headed by OutKick arrange and createer collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines agetst the NCAA due to its policies on gfinisher identity. Slusser joined this legal case because she claims that she has had to split a court, locker room and even a room on overnight trips with her teammate Blaire Fleming without having ever been tageder that Fleming was a bioreasonable male.
Slusser previously tageder Fox News Digital in an exclusive intersee that this has resulted in dangers agetst her.
“One of my teammates got a DM, fundamentalpartner saying that she, and then my team, necessitateed to grasp my distance from me on gameday agetst Colorado State, because it wasn’t going to be a excellent situation for me to be in and that my team necessitateed to grasp their distance,” Slusser tageder Fox News Digital in an exclusive intersee. “They necessitateed to grasp their distance from me during the game, because someleang was going to happen to me.
“This was the first physical danger when we could easily see that they wanted to physicpartner harm one of us.”
Colorado State University police behind the San Jose State University Spartans bench watch Moby Arena during an NCAA Mountain West women’s volleyball game between the Spartans and the Colorado State Rams in Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday, Oct. 03, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
This resulted in a burdensome police presence during the Spartan’s game at Colorado State on Oct. 3, as San Jose State has verifyed to Fox News Digital it has had to arrange police protection for its applyers with other universities during away games.
During a game agetst Air Force Academy this past weekfinish, security at Cadet East Gym at the Air Force campus in Colorado was so vigilant, that it even resulted in disputed footage of an alleged transmition between a fan and a security protect.
A fan who joined the game alleged that the Air Force security made anyone who wore shirts in protest agetst transgfinisher inclusion in women’s sports cover the messaging if they wanted to get inside to watch the align. Other witnesses have tageder Fox News Digital that they saw analogous instances happen.
“Air Force Athletics gets vital meastateives to provide a shielded environment at all home dynamic events for applyers, coaches, staff and fans,” an Air Force spokesperson tageder Fox News Digital.
San Jose State was scheduled to travel all the way to Reno tardyr this week to apply the Wolf Pack, with no secure that any Nevada applyers would get the court. Nevada has tageder Fox News Digital that its applyers will not be self-superviseled for refusing to vie in the upcoming align.
But Nevada has shelp it can’t forfeit their upcoming align because of state law, the program previously tageder Fox News Digital.
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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 agetst Colorado State, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colo. (AP Ptoastyo/David Zalubowski)
“The university made the decision not to proclaim a forfeiture and shift forward with arrangeing the align as scheduled based on disjoinal factors. As a accessible university, the university is legpartner prohibitden by Section 24 of the Nevada Constitution and other laws and regulations to proclaim a forfeit for reasons rhappy to gfinisher identity or conveyion,” a Nevada spokesperson shelp.
The Nevada state constitution was changed in 2022 when Nevada voted to adselect the Equal Rights Amfinishment, which inserted gfinisher identity to the catalog of protections. Nevada state Sen. Pat Spearman, a Democrat from North Las Vegas who co-backed the bill to get it on the ballot, shelp the law has helped transgfinisher people protect their identity.
So, forfeiting a game agetst San Jose State would have viotardyd Nevada’s state law. The other four programs that have already officipartner forfeited their alignes over transgfinisher applyer are based in states where there are no such laws. In fact, Idaho, where Boise State is based, actupartner has a state law to stop transgfinisher inclusion in women’s sports.
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