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Malaya Jones, cheater.

Ahead of their Mountain West tournament semifinal game Friday, three
members of the top-seeded Colorado State�s women�s volleyball team knelt
during the national anthem.

One of the players, Malaya Jones, has been accused of conspiring with San
Jose State University�s transgender player, Blaire Fleming, to influence
the outcome of a game between the schools and hit Fleming�s teammate,
Brooke Slusser, in the face with a ball during a match.

The Mountain West Conference conducted an investigation into allegations
of conspiracy by players on San Jose State and Colorado State�s volleyball
teams and closed it without any discipline.

The accusations came from a Title IX complaint filed by suspended San Jose
State assistant head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose Oct. 29.

Batie-Smoose was suspended shortly after the complaint was filed, to the
dismay of Slusser and other players on the team.

San Jose State volleyball player Chandler Manusky is quoted in a separate
lawsuit recounting an incident in early October, when she and other
teammates, including Fleming, violated team rules by sneaking out of a
team hotel the night before a match against Colorado State.

Manusky claimed to have then learned about an alleged plan by Fleming to
ensure San Jose State would lose the match and set up Jones to spike
Slusser in the face during a match Oct. 3.

�Manusky said that at Jones� residence Fleming had shared with Jones the
scouting for the CSU-FC game, and they had discussed Fleming �throw[ing]
the game� and how they would set up Jones to �blow up� Slusser and �blast�
her in the face during the game,� the court documents state.

Slusser previously told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview she was
made aware of Fleming�s alleged plan and believes she has been treated
unfairly by the university, arguing the university has not done enough to
investigate the matter.

�If this was me, and I was the one threatening to do this to my teammate
who�s caused so much commotion, there would have been action taken
immediately,� Slusser said. �I was definitely very angry, and I was glad
at first to know that it was already made aware to the coaching staff and
compliance and everyone, but I don�t know if that made me feel any
differently. I was just angry because I didn�t think someone would go to
these lengths.

�Threatening to want to hurt one of your own teammates, I just feel like
there�s so many things in that whole conversation that would make a school
want to get it dealt with.�

The Rams won their match against San Diego State Friday in four sets,
setting up a date with San Jose State Saturday for the conference
championship.

Jones was recently named the conference�s player of the year.

Colorado State did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Conversation

jerryc_sc
1 day ago

Let's all hope that all of SJSU's opponents in the tournament refuse to
play. Strike a blow for women's sports. We don't need to see if men are
bigger, stronger, and faster than women. Note we still have no biological
women fighting to get into men's college sports.

YankeeBo
1 day ago

If a male has to take a regimen of pills and hormones to complete in
woman's sport while still maintaining male biological birth
characteristics, he absolutely doesn't belong in that league. A judge who
allows that needs to lose his robes.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/30/sports/womens-volleyball-player-accused-of-
conspiring-with-sjsu-transgender-athlete-kneels-during-national-anthem/