San Jose State women’s volleyball The team lost 3-1 to San Diego State on Saturday amid the ongoing national controversy over a transgender athlete on the team.

Senior in red shirt Blaire Fleming She led the game with 15 kills and brought her individual season total to 252. This is the 250+ kill season in Fleming’s career. Fleming previously recorded a staggering 311 kills in her first season at San Jose State in 2022 after transferring from Coastal Carolina.

Fleming entered Saturday’s match with the third-best kill-per-serve percentage in the entire Mountain West conference at 3.76, but she was still well behind conference leader Malaya Jones of Colorado State.

Fleming increased those numbers despite San Jose State losing a total of seven games by forfeit amid ongoing controversy. Still, relying on Fleming’s production, the entire team ranks third in the conference in kills per serve average and first in the Mountain West in hitting percentage.

However, it is Fleming’s teammate Brooke Slusser who determines the team’s highest hitting percentage ranking. Slusser leads the team and currently ranks fourth in the entire conference with a .377 hitting percentage.

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Slusser is also currently involved in a lawsuit against the NCAA over Fleming’s presence on the team. Slusser claimed that the university had kept Fleming’s biological gender secret from him and his teammates for the past two years since their arrival at San Jose State. Slusser also claims that Fleming’s nails were traveling at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour during training.

“Brooke estimated that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upwards of up to 80 miles per hour, which was faster than she had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball,” Slusser’s complaint states. “The girls were doing their best to dodge Fleming’s barbs, but they still couldn’t fully protect themselves.”

Fleming previously set a single-match record at John Champe High School with 30 kills in a match and a single-season record of 266 kills for the school’s girls volleyball team.

Images from the athlete hudl page The results of the September 2019 game, which saw a school-record 30 deaths, show just how hard and fast Fleming’s surge has been against her girls’ opponents at the high school level.

President Trump even went out of his way to comment on footage of one of the plays in which Fleming threw a ball to San Diego State player Keira Herron in a game earlier this season.

“I saw the impact, it was a collision. I’ve never seen a ball hit that hard,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall. “But other people, even in volleyball, they were permanently—I mean, They really suffered a lot. “Women play with men.”

In another game against New Mexico on October 18, one of Fleming’s dunks knocked an opposing player to the ground.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) requires transgender women to submit documentation, including their testosterone levels, before a decision is made regarding their eligibility to play. San José State said in a statement to Fox News Digital that the program is in full compliance with NCAA rules.

Still, Fleming’s participation raised questions about legality at the state level and whether female athletes could share the same courts and locker rooms.

Five programs have lost their games against San Jose State this season; Southern Utah, Boise State, Utah State, Wyoming and Nevada refuse to face the Spartans. Boise State and Wyoming lost two games each, taking multiple losses to avoid competing against Fleming.

Questions have been raised about the potential conflict that could erupt when San Jose State competes in the Mountain West tournament in late November. It’s possible the Spartans could be matched up against a team that has already lost against them in the regular season in that tournament.

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Slusser told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that he and his teammates were in limbo about what a potential postseason run might look like as they navigated a demoralized locker room.

“Mostly we’re wondering, are teams going to play us if we go there? Because of what’s happened this season,” Slusser said. “It seems like every few days it seems like there’s going to be one good day and everything’s going to be normal and then something else happens. So I really think everyone just takes things on a daily basis and punches them in as they come.”

Slusser and her teammates are reeling from the recent suspension of assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, who was placed on leave after it was revealed she had filed a Title IX complaint against the school. Batie-Smoose’s complaint alleged that throughout the controversy, the university showed favoritism toward Fleming over Slusser.

“I feel like a lot of people, not just me, are fed up with this situation. So the fact that one person is causing all these problems has caused tension in the locker room and on the field,” Slusser said.

Colorado State University police monitor Moby Arena, the San Jose State University Spartans bench during the NCAA Mountain West women’s volleyball game between the Spartans and Colorado State Rams on Thursday, Oct. 03, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colo. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Batie-Smoose’s sacking was a particularly shocking development for the players as Slusser claims he and his teammates no longer feel safe.

“After we found out he was being released, most of the team broke down and freaked out, even one of my teammates said, ‘I don’t feel safe anymore’ because there’s no one around. Now that we feel like we can go talk about our concerns or our true feelings and really talk freely in front of us,” Slusser said.

Slusser said he was reluctant to talk to anyone else involved with the program, even head coach Todd Kress.

“You can’t really voice how you feel without them trying to cover it up or act like everything is fine. With Melissa, you can voice how you feel and she can comfort you, validate your feelings, and at least make you feel like you’re being listened to compared to other coaches,” Slusser said.

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Slusser says he hasn’t spoken to Fleming since joining the case. Reflecting on his interactions with Fleming before knowing the actor’s natural birth gender, Slusser admits that he regrets “coming out” to the transgender actor in a way he would not have if he had known Fleming was a biological male.

Still, when the two players took the field on Saturday, as they have all season, they played like normal teammates. They walk into the gym together, pat each other on the back between games, and even put their arms around each other’s upper shoulders in the name of team competition.

On multiple occasions in recent games, Slusser even set Fleming up for one of Fleming’s signature spikes, which he and his teammates claimed in the lawsuit could not protect themselves from.

San Jose State only has two games left, as its previously scheduled games against Wyoming and Boise State have now been canceled. Slusser and Fleming, who have a 13-4 record, will play at home against Colorado State and Fresno State in the final two games of the regular season.

Then their fate will depend on the Mountain West Tournament.

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