Women's volleyball player, accused of conspiring with SJSU transgender athlete, kneels during national anthem

Ahead of their Mountain West tournament semifinal crippled Friday, 3 members of the top-seeded Colorado State's women's volleyball squad knelt during the nationalist anthem.

One of the players, Malaya Jones, has been accused of conspiring with San Jose State University's transgender player, Blaire Fleming, to power the result of a crippled betwixt the schools and deed Fleming's teammate, Brooke Slusser, successful the look with a shot during a match. 

The Mountain West Conference conducted an probe into allegations of conspiracy by players connected San Jose State and Colorado State's volleyball teams and closed it without immoderate discipline. 

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Malaya Jones (1) of the Colorado State Rams attacks the nett against the Colorado Buffaloes astatine the CU Events Center Sept. 20, 2024, successful Boulder, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

The accusations came from a Title IX ailment filed by suspended San Jose State adjunct caput manager Melissa Batie-Smoose Oct. 29. Batie-Smoose was suspended soon aft the ailment was filed, to the dismay of Slusser and different players connected the team.

San Jose State volleyball subordinate Chandler Manusky is quoted in a abstracted lawsuit recounting an incidental successful aboriginal October, erstwhile she and different teammates, including Fleming, violated squad rules by sneaking retired of a squad edifice the nighttime earlier a lucifer against Colorado State. Manusky claimed to person past learned astir an alleged program by Fleming to guarantee San Jose State would suffer the lucifer and acceptable up Jones to spike Slusser successful the look during a lucifer Oct. 3. 

"Manusky said that astatine Jones’ residence Fleming had shared with Jones the scouting for the CSU-FC game, and they had discussed Fleming ‘throw[ing] the game’ and however they would acceptable up Jones to ‘blow up’ Slusser and ‘blast’ her successful the look during the game," the tribunal documents state.

Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans during the 3rd acceptable against the Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym Oct. 19, 2024, successful Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

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Slusser antecedently told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation she was made alert of Fleming's alleged program and believes she has been treated unfairly by the university, arguing the assemblage has not done capable to analyse the matter. 

"If this was me, and I was the 1 threatening to bash this to my teammate who's caused truthful overmuch commotion, determination would person been enactment taken immediately," Slusser said. "I was decidedly precise angry, and I was gladsome astatine archetypal to cognize that it was already made alert to the coaching unit and compliance and everyone, but I don't cognize if that made maine consciousness immoderate differently. I was conscionable aggravated due to the fact that I didn't deliberation idiosyncratic would spell to these lengths.

"Threatening to privation to wounded 1 of your ain teammates, I conscionable consciousness similar there's truthful galore things successful that full speech that would marque a schoolhouse privation to get it dealt with." 

The Rams won their lucifer against San Diego State Friday successful 4 sets, mounting up a day with San Jose State Saturday for the league championship.

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

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Jones was precocious named the conference's subordinate of the year.

Colorado State did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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