San Jose State’s ladies’s volleyball crew had two gamers listed on the Mountain West’s all-conference honorable point out record this yr who’re additionally on opposing sides of explosive lawsuits.Â
Senior Blaire Fleming got here in at fourth on the record, whereas Brooke Slusser was listed fifth.
Slusser is a part of two lawsuits alleging the college and Fleming actively sought to stop Slusser and different gamers on the crew from figuring out Fleming is a organic male.Â
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The 2024 Mountain West volleyball season all-conference honorable mentions embody San Jose State gamers Blaire Fleming and Brooke Slusser. (Courtesy of the Mountain West)
On the court docket, Fleming and Slusser anchored the most effective offenses within the Mountain West.
The Spartans completed the common season with the third-best hitting proportion within the convention.Â
Slusser completed with a prime 10 particular person hitting proportion within the convention.Â
Fleming was second within the convention in kills per set with a .386, nonetheless nicely behind Colorado State’s Malaya Jones, who led the way in which at .457.Â
Fleming had a signature second within the second-to-last recreation of the season in opposition to first-place Colorado State at dwelling on Senior Day. Fleming led the sport in kills with 24 and whole assaults and clinched victory within the fifth set with a match-point service ace.Â
Proper after the play, Fleming was swarmed by teammates in celebration. Even Slusser bought concerned. This group celebration came about simply days after Slusser and different Mountain West gamers filed a second lawsuit over Fleming’s presence on the crew in opposition to San Jose State and the convention.Â
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Slusser beforehand joined a lawsuit in opposition to the NCAA headed by former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines over the governing physique’s insurance policies on gender ideology which have allowed transgender athletes to compete as ladies.Â
In each lawsuits, Slusser has alleged Fleming’s spikes journey at 80 mph.Â
“Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes had been touring upward of 80 mph, which was sooner than she had ever seen a girl hit a volleyball,” Slusser’s grievance states. “The women had been doing every little thing they may to dodge Fleming’s spikes however nonetheless couldn’t totally defend themselves.”
Fleming beforehand set a single-game report at John Champe Excessive Faculty with 30 kills in a match and a single-season report of 266 kills for the varsity’s women’ volleyball crew.Â
Footage from the athlete’s Hudl web page of the school-record 30-kill match in September 2019 reveals how onerous and quick Fleming’s spikes got here down at the highschool degree in opposition to lady opponents.
Brooke Slusser, left, and Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans name a play throughout the first set in opposition to the Air Drive Falcons at Falcon Courtroom at East Gymnasium Oct. 19, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Pictures)
President-elect Trump even commented about footage of one among Fleming’s performs wherein the participant spiked a ball at San Diego State participant Keira Herron in a match earlier this season.
“I noticed the slam. It was a slam. I by no means noticed a ball hit so onerous,” Trump stated throughout a Fox Information city corridor earlier than he was elected to a second time period. “However different folks, even in volleyball, they’ve been completely — I imply, they have been harm actually badly. Ladies taking part in males.”
In one other match in opposition to New Mexico Oct. 18, one among Fleming’s spikes knocked an opposing participant to the court docket.Â
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Regardless of the lawsuits and the controversy, Slusser and the remainder of her teammates have taken the court docket with Fleming throughout a seaon that has included a number of forfeits.Â
San Jose State completed with a 12-6 convention report, incomes a No. 2 seed within the Mountain West Event. The crew achieved this with six of these 12 wins coming through forfeit after Utah State, Boise State, Nevada and Wyoming all refused to face this system amid the continuing controversy involving Fleming. Boise State and Wyoming every forfeited two matches in opposition to San Jose State.Â
In matches they’ve performed, Fleming’s spiking capacity is the centerpiece of the crew’s technique. Even Slusser has arrange Fleming for one of many athlete’s feared spikes all through the season whereas being a part of the lawsuit that has alleged security considerations with these spikes.Â
Because the crew gears as much as play within the Mountain West match in Las Vegas this week, it’s certain to face a crew that has already forfeited a match in opposition to San Jose State.
Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans assaults the web throughout the first set in opposition to the Air Drive Falcons at Falcon Courtroom at East Gymnasium Oct. 19, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Pictures)
Utah State and Boise State will meet within the quarterfinals for the proper to advance and face San Jose State within the semifinal after the Spartans bought a first-round bye.Â
Slusser beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital her crew does not know if the Spartans’ upcoming match opponents will face them.Â
“We’re simply principally questioning, are groups even gonna play us, interval, if we go there? Due to simply every little thing that is occurred this season,” Slusser stated. “It looks as if each few days it appears to be like prefer it’ll be a high-quality day and every little thing’s regular, after which one thing else occurs. So, I really do suppose everybody’s simply type of taking issues daily and taking the punches as they arrive.”
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