The San Jose State The women's volleyball team has already had four games canceled this season amid nationwide controversy over a transgender player on the team. However, this string of cancellations may have come to an end as the team looks to continue its season.
A San Jose State University spokesman told Fox News Digital on Thursday that none of the upcoming opponents have informed the team, which plans to withdraw after games at Boise State, Southern Utah, Wyoming and Utah State. they surrendered their matches.
“We have no notifications of match cancellations at this time. We have home games scheduled tonight against San Diego State and Saturday against UNLV,” the spokesman said.
After a straight-set loss to San Diego State on Thursday night, the team dropped to 9-2 on the season. Now the team will look to continue its regular schedule as none of its opponents have informed the team to expect further forfeits, at least for now.
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Blaire Fleming, No. 3, a redshirt senior at San Jose State University, plays on the women's volleyball team as an outside hitter and right wing. (San Jose State University)
The team has 13 games left in the regular season. The list includes two games against UNLV, two games against New Mexico, two games against Air Force, a rematch against San Diego State, a rematch against Colorado State, a game against Fresno State and a game against Nevada.
The schedule also includes second games against three of the four teams that have already lost their first game against the Spartans, with a game against Utah State on October 23, a game against Wyoming on November 14 and a game against Boise State on November 21 in the final game of the regular season .
These programs have not yet announced forfeits of their second games against San Jose State.
San Jose State's season finale will be against Boise State, which will be played on the Boise State campus in Boise, Idaho. Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed an executive order Aug. 28 to enforce the Women's Defensive Sports Act, which aims to ensure that public schools do not allow biological males to participate in girls' and women's sports.
Little praised Boise State for forfeiting its first game against San Jose State on Sept. 28, praising the school for upholding the goals set by his bill. The match was scheduled to be played in California, which has no laws prohibiting transgender people from participating in women's sports.
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San Jose State head volleyball coach Todd Kress has previously spoken out against the role that politics and government have played in making it difficult for his team to play matches on its schedule.
“We're in a situation where it seems like government and politics are kind of intertwined with college sports. And the one thing I love about college sports is that it has always been a safe haven for me. This is one area that the government is not paying attention to. “I don't think you should get involved in this. It appears that some of these decisions are being made at levels where they are also denying their own students, which means they are denying our students,” Kress told reporters on October 3.
San Jose State University Spartans head coach Todd Kress speaks with members of the media following their loss in the NCAA Mountain West women's volleyball match against the Colorado State University Rams in Fort Collins, Colorado, Thursday, October 3, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
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San Jose State became a standard bearer of the national debate over transgender inclusion in women's sports after junior Brooke Slusser, who joined the team in 2023 after transferring from Alabama, joined a lawsuit against the NCAA led by a former swimmer college student and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines on the governing body's current gender identity policy. Slusser cited her experiences with San Jose State teammate Blaire Fleming, who was a key player on the team this year.
Slusser claimed she was unaware Fleming was transgender, even though she shared rooms on team trips, according to court documents. Slusser also expressed concerns about the safety of opponents playing against Fleming. Slusser said in the complaint that she and the other players on the team “could not fully protect themselves” from Fleming's volleyball spikes.
The situation became so tense that the team was granted police protection to increase security, Fox News Digital previously reported.
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