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EXCLUSIVE: The former transgender volleyball player of the state of San José (SJSU), Blaire Fleming, responded to Pak Gazette Digital for the first time with respect to the accusations that emerged from the 2024 scandal of the program.
Fleming went to the recent accusations made by former assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, who filed a lawsuit in September against the System of the State University of California (CSU), since SJSU is one of the 23 schools based in California that are part of the system. Batie-Smoose told Pak Gazette Digital that SJSU accommodated Fleming with special exceptions that were not granted to female athletes.
“Do not appear to practice without excuses, sit in the stands they ate while the practice continued, that kind of thing,” Batie-Smoose said about the special exceptions reserved exclusively for Fleming.
SJSU and CSU refused to respond to those accusations.
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Blaire Fleming of the Spartans of the State of San José reacts during the second set against the Halcons of the Air Force in Falcon Court in East Gym on October 19, 2024 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
But Fleming responded to the statement of Batie-Smoose and addressed the former teammate and Co-Capitán Brooke Slusser.
“The only times I appeared to practice with ‘Without excuse’ and sat in the stands was when I was injured and I couldn’t play. Brooke Slusser and Melissa need to get a life,” Fleming told Pak Gazette Digital.
Slusser, who played with Fleming for two seasons in SJSU since 2023-24, joined a lawsuit and presented another citing his experience with the Trans athlete. Slusser has also joined a lawsuit against NCAA and presented its own against the Mountain West conference and SJSU representatives.
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Slusser’s demands caught national attention to the program last year, since the team saw multiple opponents while she and Fleming met as opposed figures in an important flash point of the war of American culture.
The situation even obtained a response from President Donald Trump when he was in the campaign last October, shouting a time when one of Fleming’s peaks hit a San Diego state player in a game, during a Pak Gazette Channel City Council with Harris Faulkner. Regular police protection was assigned to the team in September and persisted throughout the season.
In addition to the demand for Slusser and Batie-Smoose, SJSU is also currently under a federal investigation by the United States Department of Education for its management of the situation last year. The investigation was launched in early February after Trump signed the executive order to “keep men out of women’s sports.”
The team saw a massive exodus of its players after the controversial season ended last December. At least seven of the team players with remaining eligibility entered the transfer portal.
This season, SJSU has a 6-7 beginning without Fleming, Slusser and those other transferred players.
Fleming’s university career ended the last day of November last season, when SJSU lost to the state of Colorado in the Mountain West Tournament final in Las Vegas. Sjsu was playing in the final because the opponent who were destined to face in the semifinal, Boise State, lost. Boise State had lost two regular season clashes to SJSU that season in the middle of the controversy.
The former SJSU star, Brooke Slusser
Fleming and Slusser were named honorable mentions of 2024 All Conference, since they anchored one of the best offenses in Mountain West in the middle of the controversy last year.
The team finished the regular season with the third best batting percentage at the conference. Slusser ended with a higher individual batting percentage at the conference, while Fleming was second at the conference in SET murders with a .386.
Brooke Slusser #10 and Blaire Fleming #3 of the Spartans of the State of San José call a play during the first set against the Falcons of the Air Force in Falcon Court in East Gym on October 19, 2024 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
Both players arrived in SJSU as transfers years before. Slusser was transferred from the University of Alabama in 2023, while Fleming was transferred from the Carolina coast a year earlier.
Fleming was previously the centerpiece of the best volleyball team in the history of John Champe High School (in Virginia) with a historic season of 19 victories in 2019: the last year of Fleming. That year, Fleming was appointed the first All-District team and established the record of a single season of the murders in a season with 266. Fleming established the record of a single school game for murders with 30 against Battlefield High School in September of that year.
Meanwhile, Slusser, a Christian of the native life of Texas and devote School and the 2019 Volleyball Club Volleyball team.
Slusser alleged in his demands that SJSU officials hid the knowledge of Fleming’s birth sex while supposedly combined both in the same room on night trips. Slusser also claimed that Fleming admitted to being a biological man in a conversation with Slusser about ice cream in April 2024.
“Slusser asked why Fleming had not shared this information with her before, particularly because they had been living together. Fleming replied that there never seemed to have a good time to mention it, and that he had been afraid that Slusser could not be his friend if Slusser knew the truth. Fleming also said that if Slusser was uncomfortable with that, Fleming would leave the Volleyball team.” Slusser on the court.
After the 2024 volleyball season, Slusser fled the SJSU campus after an alleged harassment and frequent threats by other students in response to her spoke against Fleming and the previous autumn program. He returned to his parents’ house in Texas to finish the school year remotely, and is now working as a youth volleyball coach in North Carolina.
Fleming celebrated SJSU’s graduation in a publication on social networks in May. In a story of the New York Times in April, Fleming claimed to have been suicide during the 2024 season.
