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San Diego State's women's volleyball squad released a connection connected Friday suggesting it is consenting to enactment successful a imaginable Mountain West Tournament last lucifer against San Jose State. The connection comes 2 days aft Boise State forfeited its semifinal lucifer to the Spartans amid a nationalist contention implicit a trans athlete.
San Diego State volition instrumentality connected top-seeded Colorado State successful the semifinal connected Friday nighttime for the accidental to look San Jose State for the league championship successful Las Vegas, Nevada. The programme said the squad has made a "decision to play."
"We emotion playing the athletics of volleyball. We stay focused connected continuing our beardown commencement to the play and competing for a Mountain West championship. Our determination to play is not intended to beryllium immoderate benignant of connection too demonstrating our committedness to volleyball," the connection read.
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The programme besides announced that players volition not beryllium doing immoderate media interviews passim the tournament.
San Diego State played 2 matches against San Jose State this year, sweeping the Spartans by winning some matches. San Diego State dominated San Jose State successful consecutive sets connected the Spartans' location level connected October 10. The rematch successful San Diego connected November 9 saw the Aztecs successful 3 sets to one.
San Jose State's trans subordinate Blaire Fleming inactive led some games successful kills, but San Diego State was capable to flooded it some times.
Meanwhile, Boise State, forfeited some regular play matches to San Jose State, and were 1 of 4 league opponents to bash truthful successful the regular season. Wyoming, Utah State and Nevada besides forfeited regular play matches to San Jose State, arsenic Boise State and Wyoming gave up 2 matches each.
San Jose State had six league wins added to its grounds arsenic a effect of those forfeits, earning the No. 2 effect successful the tournament.
A national justice had the quality to forestall Flaming from competing successful the tourney but ruled to let it instead. Judge Kato Crews successful Colorado, appointed by President Biden successful January, denied a question for injunctive alleviation successful a suit by assemblage volleyball players against the conference.
Blaire Fleming plays against Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym connected October 19, 2024, successful Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
A twelve women jointly filed the suit against the Mountain West and its commissioner, alleging violations of Title IX and their First Amendment rights. Among the women are SJSU co-volleyball skipper Brooke Slusser and 2 erstwhile Spartans arsenic good arsenic athletes from other Mountain West schools.
Fleming's ain teammate Brooke Slusser is progressive successful that suit and different implicit Fleming's beingness connected the team. Slusser previously told Fox News Digital that the concern involving the anticipation of teams forfeiting against them successful the tourney was thing that distracted them successful caller weeks.
"We're conscionable mostly wondering, are teams adjacent gonna play us, period, if we spell there? Because of conscionable everything that's happened this season," Slusser said. "It seems similar each fewer days it looks similar it'll beryllium a good time and everything's normal, and past thing other happens. So, I genuinely bash deliberation everyone's conscionable benignant of taking things time by time and taking the punches arsenic they come."
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A elaborate presumption of the San Diego State Aztecs logo astatine midcourt earlier the crippled against the Brigham Young Cougars astatine Viejas Arena. (Orlando Ramirez-USA Today Sports)
Colorado State, who volition person the higher-seeded vantage against San Diego State connected Friday night, besides participated successful 2 matchups against San Jose State successful the regular play contempt the ongoing controversy.
San Diego State divided its 2 meetings against Colorado State successful the regular season. The Aztecs won the archetypal matchip successful a decisive 5th acceptable successful San Diego connected October 17, past mislaid successful consecutive sets successful Colorado connected November 2.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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