Nevada volleyball player nearly forced to face transgender opponent cries, alleges school pressured team to compete

Players on the University of Nevada, Reno women’s volleyball team held a press conference Saturday to address their school’s reluctance to forfeit a match against a team with a transgender player. Alongside former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines, multiple players spoke about the situation on the day they were scheduled to face San Jose State.The program officially announced it would forfeit the match Friday due to not having enough players, but the players had told their athletic department they didn’t want to play San Jose State weeks earlier. Wolf Pack team captain Sia Liilii broke down in tears from the minute she took the podium while she recounted her experience telling school officials she didn’t want to compete against a transgender player.“When the news broke, I was stunned, as many of my teammates were.This is not what we signed up for,” an emotional Liilii said. Liilii referenced a statement the university released Oct.

13, assuring the program intends to face San Jose State despite players voting to forfeit.“Our university had made a decision for us.They released a statement on our behalf saying we were going to play.

We were not consulted, we were not given a voice and we did not agree,” Liilii said.“It hurt knowing our university was putting us in a position that could potentially hurt us.

My teammates and I were very emotional, and I’m not sure, I cannot put into words how it feels to face something like this and knowing that we are all on our own.” Nevada previously provided a statement to Fox News Digital confirming that the players had requested to forfeit the match but did not have authority to do so themselves.“A majority of the Wolf Pack women’s volleyball team issued a statement to the university informing it that the team had decided it was forfeiting the scheduled match with San José State University. While players are not authorized to forfeit the match, this decision is one that only t...