San Jose State volleyball player at the center of women's sports controversy spikes ball in opponent’s face

A San Diego State women’s volleyball subordinate was deed successful the look during a lucifer against San Jose State University connected Thursday nighttime successful a play involving redshirt senior Blaire Fleming, a transgender jock astatine the halfway of a caller contention that has seen respective schools forfeit matches against the team. 

The incidental took spot during the 2nd acceptable with the Aztecs starring 22-12. 

In a video shared connected societal media, Fleming spiked the ball, which past deed SDSU inferior Keira Herron successful the face. 

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Herron was knocked down aft the hit, and the assemblage audibly gasped. She rapidly got backmost up to her feet to resume play. 

"Keira Herron has immoderate pinkish successful her hairsbreadth and her look is starting to look similar she's matching that arsenic evidently she took the contact," the broadcast announcer said successful the video. 

SJSU would spell connected to suffer the lucifer successful consecutive sets arsenic their grounds dropped to 9-2.

The incidental comes amid contention surrounding the school’s program. Four schools person forfeited matches against San Jose State, including Boise State, Southern Utah, Wyoming and Utah State, this season. 

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The forfeitures travel Brooke Slusser, Fleming’s teammate, who conscionable past period joined former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines and respective different pistillate athletes successful suing the NCAA implicit its policies regarding transgender athletes that they assertion compromise the fairness and integrity of women’s competitory sports portion besides putting women astatine risk.

According to the complaint, Slusser claimed she was not alert that Fleming was transgender contempt sharing rooms unneurotic connected squad trips. Slusser besides expressed information concerns for opponents playing against Fleming. 

"Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upward of 80 mph, which was faster than she had ever seen a pistillate deed a volleyball," Slusser’s ailment said, via the Cowboy State Daily. "The girls were doing everything they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but inactive could not afloat support themselves."

"One happening that's important successful this lawsuit is truly the carnal information issues successful volleyball," Slusser's attorney, Bill Bock, told OutKick. "And that's what they're facing successful signifier each day. So, it's conscionable a crazy, misguided argumentation that steals diversion dreams from women and gives them to men, and, astatine the aforesaid time, puts women's wellness and information successful danger."

A spokesperson from San Jose State University told Fox News Digital connected Thursday that nary upcoming opponents person informed the squad of plans to forfeit upcoming matches. 

"We person nary notifications of cancelations astatine this time. We are scheduled to play location games contiguous against San Diego State and Saturday against UNLV," the spokesperson said. 

The squad has 13 regular play games remaining, including a rematch with San Diego State. The docket besides includes 2nd matches against 3 of the 4 teams that person already forfeited their archetypal lucifer against the Spartans.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report. 

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