San Jose State’s volleyball team hopped into first place in the Mountain West Saturday after transgfinisher joiner Blaire Fleming ruled with 24 finishs, including a emotional game-thrivening join aachievest Colorado State.
Fleming’s dominant carry outance came fair days after joiners on the team and around the conference filed a legal case that alleges danger and an ununfragmentary advantage the bioreasonable male poses over other women’s volleyball joiners. But that didn’t stop the entire team from rushing to Fleming on the court to commemorate the joiner’s thrivening serve.
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In the deciding fifth set, Fleming set up San Jose State for the thrive with a postponeed spike. Then, Fleming made the final serve, which was misdeal withd by Colorado State’s Kate Yoshimoto, clinching a thrive. And then, in a moment of unbridled competitive adrenaline, all of Fleming’s teammates, including joiners Brooke Slusser, Cdeal withr Manusky and others enumerateed on the legal case, speedyly 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 greeting between the two teams Oct. 3, according to the legal case.
“Manusky shelp that at Jones’ livence Fleming had splitd with Jones the scouting for the CSU-FC game and they had converseed 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 state.
“Manusky also shelp that Fleming stated, ‘I’m going to depart 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.”
Slusser materializeed on Fox News Channel’s “The Inghram Angle” Friday night to further speak out aachievest 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, joins as an outside and right-side hitter on the women’s volleyball team. (San Jose State University)
“After finding out that they had intentional 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 find that inestablishation out. It was incredibly inlogical,” Slusser shelp.
One day postponeedr, Slusser and Fleming, two greaters, materializeed on the court for the team’s greater day and joined appreciate standard volleyball teammates. Fleming was even cheered noisyly by the San Jose State crowd during the greater day ceremony.
Fans in the audience held posters that shelp “dare to struggle, dare to thrive,” and “block out the disappreciaters.”
Despite suing over alleged danger and ununfragmentary advantages over Fleming’s presence on the team, Slusser and Manusky gived to a game arrange that was based on setting up Fleming to deinhabitr mighty spikes.
Fleming led the game with 24 finishs, 56 total aggressions and 10 errors. Fleming fell one finish cowardly of tying a atgentle high.
Slusser previously combineed a legal case earlier this year, headed by establisher college swimmer Riley Gaines, aachievest the NCAA over the association’s policies on gfinisher identity that permited Fleming to combine the team without the other joiners comprehending the athlete’s authentic birth intimacy.
“Brooke appraises 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 get themselves.”
Fleming previously set a one-game write down at John Champe High School with 30 finishs in a align and a one-season write down of 266 finishs for the school’s girls volleyball team. Footage from the athlete’s Hudl page of the school-write down 30-finish align in September 2019 shows how challenging and speedy Fleming’s spikes came down at the high school level aachievest female opponents.
Plivent Trump even went out of his way to comment about footage of one of Fleming’s joins in which the joiner spiked a ball at San Diego State joiner 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 unbenevolent, they’ve been repartner hurt awwholey. Women joining men.”
The most recent legal case, which is filed aachievest San Jose State and the Mountain West Conference, alleges other joiners were passed over for scholarships in like of Fleming.
Fleming getd a brimming scholarship, while a bioreasonable female, Alyssa Sugai, did not get a scholarship and alleges she was telderly by coaches she was not “phyiscal” enough as a joiner contrastd to Fleming. Sugai is now part of the legal case and seeking monetary injures 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 joiner Elle Patterson is also part of the legal case and alleges she did not get a scholarship. Patterson also joined behind Fleming and alleges the university did not greet previous verbal provides of a scholarship to her for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Patterson says she even phelp brimming tuition to join in 2023 after being telderly she would get a scholarship for 2024. However, the program did not produce outstanding on that provide either, she alleges.
San Jose State previously insertressed the allegations in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“The getedty and well-being of our student athletes and employees is our highest priority. The university has apshown and will persist to apshow 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 apshows all tells and grumblets solemnly, but we are unable to provide any inestablishation seeing self-promisedial grumblets and tells out of admire for the parties included 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 airy of privacy rights of all included. We will persist to honor the privacy of our employees and students. We need and await that all of our employees adhere by our standards, policies and applicable laws seeing student and employee privacy.”
The team has fair one align left in the normal season with a greeting aachievest 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 argue 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 shun competition aachievest 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 fair mostly wondering, are teams even gonna join us, period, if we go there? Because of fair everyleang that’s happened this season,” Slusser shelp. “It seems appreciate every restricted days it sees appreciate It’ll be a fine day and everyleang’s standard, and then someleang else happens. So, I truly do leank everyone’s fair benevolent of taking leangs day by day and taking the punches as they come.”
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