Nevada cancels volleyball match with San Jose State after clashing with own players over transgender controversy

The University of Nevada, Reno officially announced on Friday that its women’s volleyball team will forfeit its game against San Jose State on Saturday.Nevada is the fifth team to forfeit its match against San Jose State amid an ongoing national controversy over a transgender player, Blaire Fleming, on the team and another player engaged in a lawsuit over never being told that player was a biological male, according to the lawsuit.Nevada cited not having enough players to compete in the match for forfeiting after its players expressed a desire and intention not to compete against San Jose State.“Due to not having enough players to compete, the University of Nevada women’s volleyball team will not play its scheduled Mountain West Conference match at San José State on Saturday, Oct.26.

Per Mountain West Conference policy, the match will be recorded as a conference loss for Nevada,” Nevada announced in a statement early on Friday morning.San Jose State responded to the forfeit in a statement to Fox News Digital.“Our athletes all comply with NCAA and Mountain West Conference policies and they are eligible to play under the rules of those organizations.We will continue to take measures to prioritize the health and safety of our students while they pursue their earned opportunities to compete,” the statement read.Nevada players, including team captain Sia Liillii, spoke out against the notion of competing against a transgender player in the weeks leading up to the cancelation after voting to forfeit it on Oct.

14.The players even went so far as to schedule a press conference alongside OutKick contributor and women’s athlete activist Riley Gaines to go on at the same time as the game on Saturday.“We were pretty upset after that statement came out from our university,” Liilii told Yahoo Sports.

“It just hit us that we needed to talk about what we wanted to do as a group, make a decision and stand by it.”However, Nevada would not officially forfeit ...