EXCLUSIVE: The contract of the former assistant volleyball coach of the State University of San José, Melissa Batie-Smoose, with the University expired on Friday, and has been told that he will not be renewed, he said exclusively to Pak Gazette Digital.
His departure occurs after a season full of a scandal that involves a trans athlete, in which Batie-Smoose adopted a firm position to oppose the defense of the University of that athlete. She and her family initially moved to California from the East Coast to accept the work in 2023.
“We did not make the decision to transfer our family through the country lightly, but I think everything happens for a reason, and was destined to be in the state of San José to defend these young women and do everything I could To protect future generations.
The state of San José declined to comment on the situation of the Batie-Smoose contract when Pak Gazette Digital was contacted.
“SJSU does not comment on personnel matters,” said a University spokesman.
Batie-Smoose was suspended from the program on November 2 after she filed a complaint of title IX against the University with respect to her alleged management of a situation that involves the former transgender player Blaire Fleming. The complaint included accusations that Fleming had conspired with an opponent for Slusser to hit the face during a match in October.
“I talked to the young women of the team who were being silenced and with gas batteries while trying to have a male athlete in their costumes, on the court and inhabited with them on the road. I could not be silenced and manipulated for a longer time. I had That defending what was fine, “he said.
“Talking to protect these young women and future women was too much to ignore. This has cost me my job, but we need more coaches to defend what is correct. I just have to pray to do the right that he should do. ”
Batie-Smoose is also currently dedicated to a lawsuit against the state of San José and Montain West along with 11 current and previous players of the conference.
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The lawsuit is directed by former Co-Capitan of the State of San José, Brooke Slusser, who alleges that he had been forced to share rooms and change spaces with Fleming throughout the season while the university retained the truth about the birth sex of Fleming of her and other players.
Both the demand for Slusser and the complaint of the title IX of Batie-Smoose allege that Fleming conspired with the volleyball player of the state of Colorado, Malaya Jones, before the match between the two programs on October 3. The complaint alleges that Fleming provided an exploration report to Jones to guarantee a competitive state of Colorado State advantage, and established a plan to establish Jones with a transparent lane for Spike Slusser in the face during the contest.
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Colorado State University Police behind the Spartans Bank of the San José State University Moby Aren Thursday, October 3, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle through Getty Images)
Slusser never shot in the face during that game, but Colorado State won in straight sets.
An investigation by Mountain West about the accusations of Batie-Smoose did not find sufficient evidence to assign discipline to any player who has been appointed in the accusations, which was declared in a letter obtained by Pak Gazette Digital that went to Status of San José The Atlético Director Jeff Konya and the Atlético Director of the State of Colorado, John Weber, of the attached commissioner of Mountain West, Bret Gilliland.
That letter did not address the accusations in the demand of Slusser that provided an additional context about the incident, nor did he addressed the specific notion of an alleged conspiracy for Slusser to hit the face. The letter simply referred to all the accusations listed in the complaint as “competition manipulation.”
Gilliland said that any evidence to support the claims in the complaint was insufficient, but did not explicitly declare that the accusations were false, according to the letter.
The letter stated that the conference investigation included interviews with coaches and athletes students in both San José and in the state of Colorado. However, the letter did not specifically indicate which individuals had been interviewed. The conference refused to provide details about the people who had been interviewed when Pak Gazette Digital asked.
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Slusser’s lawyer Bill Bock, then provided a statement to Pak Gazette Digital, insisting that the investigation had been “infected with bias.”
“Because MWC’s investigation was inappropriate, and anything but exhaustive, and because the MWC closing letter is full of errors, the subigned is issuing this refutation and demands that the MWC be released immediately: (1 ) The research report prepared by its investigator (s), and (2) all documents related to the ‘exhaustive research’ of the MWC and on which the decision of the MWC not to continue was based more “, it was Read in the Bock statement.
Slusser previously told Pak Gazette Digital that a volleyball in the past has shot himself in the face in the past, and that the experience “Pica, but only brushes.” However, in his first season together in 2023, Slusser said he wore one of Fleming’s peaks to his thigh, then he had to breastfeed dark bruises in his thigh for a week after that. Slusser says he didn’t even know that Fleming was a trans athlete at that time.
Slusser also told Pak Gazette Digital that the suspension of Batie-Smoose left some of his teammates crying.
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Sjsu Trans player Blaire Fleming and her teammate Brooke Slusser went to a magic show and had thanksgiving together in Las Vegas despite a continuous demand on Fleming being transgender. (State Athletics of Truong/San José)
“After discovering that she was launched, much of the team broke and was going crazy, and even one of my teammates said: ‘I don’t feel safe,” because there is no one now that we feel we can go and talk About our concerns or our real feelings and we can actually talk freely in front, “said Slusser.
Slusser said he did not feel safe talking to anyone more involved in the program, especially chief coach Todd Kress.
“You really can’t express how you feel without just trying to cover or act as if everything was well. With Melissa, you could express how you felt, and she could comfort you and validate your feelings and at least make you feel you heard, compared to the Other trainers, “said Slusser.
SJSU played in the Colorado State Conference Championship game on November 30, but lost. The loss followed Fleming, Slusser and the rest of the Spartans outside the NCAA tournament. Batie-Smoose was in the match in Las Vegas, Nevada, that weekend to support his former players, despite having been suspended by the program.
Almost each of the SJSU 2024 players that has the remaining eligibility of the NCAA has entered the transfer portal, Pak Gazette Digital previously reported.
“I think he says a lot that the majority of the team transferred because they did not want to be subjected to the mental anguish that the university crossed them. They had had enough lies and manipulation, and I wish them the best.” Batie-Smoose told Pak Gazette Digital.
Meanwhile, Slusser’s demand against school and the conference has not yet gone to trial. Slusser is also dedicated to the demand of Riley Gaines against NCAA about its gender ideology policies that allow Trans athletes in women’s sports.
