SJSU trans participant Blaire Fleming joins teammate Brooke Slusser on convention honors listing amid lawsuits

San Jose State’s ladies’s volleyball group had two gamers listed on the Mountain West’s all-conference honorable point out listing this yr who’re additionally on opposing sides of explosive lawsuits. 

Senior Blaire Fleming and Brooke Slusser had been each on the listing in addition to Annie Kaminski and Kiki Remensperger from Boise State, San Diego State’s Jasmine Davis, Basia Latos and Chloe Thomas from UNLV, Utah State’s Kaylie Kofe and Wyoming’s Sarah Holcomb.

Slusser is a part of two lawsuits alleging the college and Fleming actively sought to forestall Slusser and different gamers on the group from understanding Fleming is a organic male. 

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The 2024 Mountain West volleyball season all-conference honorable mentions embrace San Jose State gamers Blaire Fleming and Brooke Slusser. (Courtesy of the Mountain West)

On the courtroom, Fleming and Slusser anchored the most effective offenses within the Mountain West.

The Spartans completed the common season with the third-best hitting share within the convention. 

Slusser completed with a prime 10 particular person hitting share within the convention. 

Fleming was second within the convention in kills per set with a .386, nonetheless properly behind Colorado State’s Malaya Jones, who led the best way at .457. 

Fleming had a signature second within the second-to-last recreation of the season towards first-place Colorado State at residence 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. 

Proper after the play, Fleming was swarmed by teammates in celebration. Even Slusser bought concerned. This group celebration happened simply days after Slusser and different Mountain West gamers filed a second lawsuit over Fleming’s presence on the group towards San Jose State and the convention. 

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Slusser beforehand joined a lawsuit towards 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. 

In each lawsuits, Slusser has alleged Fleming’s spikes journey at 80 mph. 

“Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes had been touring upward of 80 mph, which was sooner than she had ever seen a lady hit a volleyball,” Slusser’s grievance states. “The ladies had been doing all the pieces they may to dodge Fleming’s spikes however nonetheless couldn’t totally defend themselves.”

Fleming beforehand set a single-game document at John Champe Excessive College with 30 kills in a match and a single-season document of 266 kills for the varsity’s women’ volleyball group. 

Footage from the athlete’s Hudl web page of the school-record 30-kill match in September 2019 exhibits how laborious and quick Fleming’s spikes got here down at the highschool degree towards woman opponents.

Brooke Slusser, left, and Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans name a play in the course of the first set towards the Air Power Falcons at Falcon Court docket at East Gymnasium Oct. 19, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Photos)

President-elect Trump even commented about footage of one among Fleming’s performs through which 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 laborious,” Trump mentioned 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 towards New Mexico Oct. 18, one among Fleming’s spikes knocked an opposing participant to the courtroom. 

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Regardless of the lawsuits and the controversy, Slusser and the remainder of her teammates have taken the courtroom with Fleming throughout a season that has included a number of forfeits. 

San Jose State completed with a 12-6 convention document, incomes a No. 2 seed within the Mountain West Event. The group 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 towards San Jose State. 

In matches they’ve performed, Fleming’s spiking capacity is the centerpiece of the group’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. 

Because the group gears as much as play within the Mountain West match in Las Vegas this week, it’s sure to face a group that has already forfeited a match towards San Jose State.

Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans assaults the online in the course of the first set towards the Air Power Falcons at Falcon Court docket at East Gymnasium Oct. 19, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Photos)

Utah State and Boise State will meet within the quarterfinals for the best to advance and face San Jose State within the semifinal after the Spartans bought a first-round bye. 

Slusser beforehand informed Fox Information Digital her group would not know if the Spartans’ upcoming match opponents will face them. 

“We’re simply largely questioning, are groups even gonna play us, interval, if we go there? Due to simply all the pieces that is occurred this season,” Slusser mentioned. “It looks as if each few days it seems prefer it’ll be a high quality day and all the pieces’s regular, after which one thing else occurs. So, I actually do suppose everybody’s simply sort of taking issues day-to-day and taking the punches as they arrive.”

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