EXCLUSIVE: Former San Jose State University Assistant Volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose’s contract with the university expired on Friday and she has been told that it will not be renewed, she told Pakinomist Digital exclusively.

Her departure comes after a season plagued by a scandal involving a trans-athlete in which Batie-Smoose took a firm attitude to oppose the university’s defense of the athlete. She and her family originally moved to California from the East Coast to accept the job in 2023.

“We didn’t make the decision to move our family across the country easily, but I think everything happens for a reason and I was meant to be in San Jose State to stand up to these young women and do everything, What I could to protect future generations.

San Jose State refused to comment on Batie-Smoose’s contractual situation when he was contacted by Pakinomist Digital.

“SJSU does not comment on personnel cases,” a university spokesman said.

Batie-Smoose was suspended from the program on November 2, after she filed a title IX complaint against the university regarding its alleged handling of a situation involving the former transcend player Blaire Fleming. The complaint included accusations that Fleming had conspired with an opponent to get slushes hit in the face during a match in October.

“I spoke to the young women on the team who were silenced and lit while he was dealing with having a male athlete in their dressing room, on the field and room with them on the road. I couldn’t be taved and manipulated anymore so I had to stand up for what was right, ”she 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 stand up for what is right. I just have to pray It is by doing the right thing that justice will prevail and I will be able to continue to do what I was intended to do.

Batie smoosis is also currently engaged in a lawsuit against San Jose State and The Mountain West along with 11 current and former conference players.

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The trial is led by former San Jose State Co-captain Brooke Slusser, who claims she had been done to share bedrooms and change spaces with Fleming for a whole season, while the university withheld the truth about Fleming’s birth sex from her and other players.

Both Slusser’s trial and Batie-Smoose’s title IX complaint claims Fleming conspired with Colorado State Volleyball Player Malaya Jones prior to the match between the two programs on October 3rd. The complaint claims that Fleming delivered a scout report to Jones to secure a Colorado State-competitive advantage and established a plan to create Jones with a clear track to spike the face slushes during the competition.

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Slusses were never spiked in the face during this match, but Colorado State won in straight sets.

A Mountain West study of Batie-Smoose’s accusations did not find sufficient evidence to assign discipline to any player named in the allegations stated in a letter obtained by Pakinomist Digital, which was addressed to San Jose State Athletic Director Jeff Konya and Colorado State Athletic Director John Weber from Mountain West Deputy Commissioner Bret Gilliland.

This letter did not deal with accusations in Slusser’s lawsuit, which provided further context of the incident, nor did it deal with the specific view of an alleged conspiracy to get slumpes hit in the face. The letter simply mentioned all claims listed in the complaint as “manipulation of the competition.”

Gilliland claimed that any evidence of supporting the claims in the complaint was inadequate, but did not explicitly state that the claims were false, according to the letter.

The letter stated that the conference’s study included interviews with coaches and student athletes in both San Jose State and Colorado State. However, the letter did not specifically indicate which individuals had been interviewed. The conference refused to give details of the people who had been interviewed when asked by Pakinomist Digital.

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Slusser’s lawyer Bill Bock later made a statement to Pakinomist Digital, which insisted that the investigation had been “infected with bias.”

“Because MWC’s investigation was inadequate, and anything but thorough, and because MWC’s close letter is filled with errors, the undersigned emits this disgust and requires MWC to release immediately and publicly: (1) The investigative report prepared by its investigator (s) and ( 2) All documents associated with MWC’s claimed ‘thorough investigation’ and which MWC’s decision not to continue was further based on, “the Bock statement read.

Slusser previously told Pakinomist Digital that she has previously been spiked in the face of a volleyball, and that the experience “Sticking but you just brush it off.” In their first season together in 2023, however, sluts said she took one of Fleming’s spikes to her thighs and then had to nurture dark bruises on the thigh for a whole week after that. Slusser says she didn’t even know that Fleming was a trans athlete back then.

Slusser also told former Pakinomist Digital that Batie-Smoose’s suspension left some of her teammates in tears.

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“After we found out she was released, much of the team broke a lot of kind and was a bit freaking, and even one of my teammates was like,” I don’t feel safe, “because there’s no one now Where we feel we can go and talk to about our concerns or our actual feelings and can actually talk freely in front, “Slusser said.

Slusser said she didn’t feel sure to talk to someone else involved in the program, especially head coach Todd Kress.

“You can’t really express how you feel without them just trying to cover it up or behave like it’s all ok. With Melissa you could express how you felt and she could comfort you And validate your feelings and at least make you feel heard compared to the other coaches, “Slusser said.

SJSU continued to play in the conference championship against Colorado State on November 30, but lost. The loss kept Fleming, Slusser and the rest of the Spartans out of the NCAA tournament. Batie-Smoose was in the match in Las Vegas, Nevada, that weekend to support her former players, despite being suspended by the program.

Almost every one of the players on SJSUS 2024 teams that have remaining NCAA eligibility have entered the transfer portal, Pakinomist Digital previously reported.

“I think it speaks quantities that the majority of the team transferred because they did not want to be exposed to the mental anguish that the university completed them. They had had enough of lies and manipulation and I wish them The best, ”Batie-Smoosis told Pakinomist Digital.

Meanwhile, Slusser’s lawsuit against school and the conference has not yet been tried. Slusses are also engaged in Riley Gaines’ lawsuit against NCAA over its gender ideology policies that allow Trans athletes to compete in women’s sports.