SJSU trans player Blaire Fleming joins teammate Brooke Slusser on conference honors list amid lawsuits

San Jose State's women's volleyball team had 2 players listed connected the Mountain West's all-conference honorable notation database this twelvemonth who are besides connected opposing sides of explosive lawsuits. 

Senior Blaire Fleming and Brooke Slusser were some connected the database arsenic good arsenic 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 portion of two lawsuits alleging the assemblage and Fleming actively sought to forestall Slusser and different players connected the squad from knowing Fleming is simply a biologic male. 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

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

On the court, Fleming and Slusser anchored 1 of the champion offenses successful the Mountain West.

The Spartans finished the regular play with the third-best hitting percent successful the conference. 

Slusser finished with a apical 10 idiosyncratic hitting percent successful the conference. 

Fleming was 2nd successful the league successful kills per acceptable with a .386, inactive good down Colorado State's Malaya Jones, who led the mode astatine .457. 

Fleming had a signature infinitesimal successful the second-to-last crippled of the play against first-place Colorado State astatine location connected Senior Day. Fleming led the crippled successful kills with 24 and full attacks and clinched triumph successful the 5th acceptable with a match-point work ace. 

Right aft the play, Fleming was swarmed by teammates successful celebration. Even Slusser got involved. This radical solemnisation took spot conscionable days aft Slusser and different Mountain West players filed a 2nd suit implicit Fleming's beingness connected the squad against San Jose State and the conference. 

SJSU WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL'S 1ST OPPONENT DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT TRANS PLAYER, SUGGESTS MATCH WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED

Slusser antecedently joined a suit against the NCAA headed by erstwhile NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines implicit the governing body's policies connected sex ideology that person allowed transgender athletes to vie arsenic women. 

In some lawsuits, Slusser has alleged Fleming's spikes question astatine 80 mph. 

"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 states. "The girls were doing everything they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but inactive could not afloat support themselves."

Fleming antecedently acceptable a single-game grounds astatine John Champe High School with 30 kills successful a lucifer and a single-season grounds of 266 kills for the school's girls' volleyball team. 

Footage from the athlete's Hudl page of the school-record 30-kill lucifer successful September 2019 shows however hard and accelerated Fleming's spikes came down astatine the precocious schoolhouse level against miss opponents.

Brooke Slusser, left, and Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans telephone a play during the archetypal acceptable against the Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym Oct. 19, 2024, successful Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

President-elect Trump adjacent commented astir footage of 1 of Fleming's plays successful which the subordinate spiked a shot astatine San Diego State subordinate Keira Herron successful a lucifer earlier this season.

"I saw the slam. It was a slam. I ne'er saw a shot deed truthful hard," Trump said during a Fox News municipality hallway earlier helium was elected to a 2nd term. "But different people, adjacent successful volleyball, they’ve been permanently — I mean, they've been wounded truly badly. Women playing men."

In different lucifer against New Mexico Oct. 18, 1 of Fleming's spikes knocked an opposing subordinate to the court. 

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Despite the lawsuits and the controversy, Slusser and the remainder of her teammates person taken the tribunal with Fleming during a play that has included respective forfeits. 

San Jose State finished with a 12-6 league record, earning a No. 2 effect successful the Mountain West Tournament. The squad achieved this with six of those 12 wins coming via forfeit aft Utah State, Boise State, Nevada and Wyoming each refused to look the programme amid the ongoing contention involving Fleming. Boise State and Wyoming each forfeited 2 matches against San Jose State. 

In matches they've played, Fleming's spiking quality is the centerpiece of the team's strategy. Even Slusser has acceptable up Fleming for 1 of the athlete's feared spikes passim the play portion being portion of the suit that has alleged information concerns with those spikes. 

As the squad gears up to play successful the Mountain West tourney successful Las Vegas this week, it is bound to look a squad that has already forfeited a lucifer against San Jose State.

Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans attacks the nett during the archetypal acceptable against the Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym Oct. 19, 2024, successful Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

Utah State and Boise State volition conscionable successful the quarterfinals for the close to beforehand and look San Jose State successful the semifinal aft the Spartans got a first-round bye. 

Slusser antecedently told Fox News Digital her squad doesn't cognize if the Spartans' upcoming tourney opponents volition look them. 

"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."

Follow Fox News Digital’s sports sum connected X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.