EXCLUSIVE: Former San Jose State University Volleyball-Co captain Brooke Slusser finishes her last semester in college almost in her home state of Texas after alleged harassment on campus, online threats and mental health issues arising from the scandal that shook the school’s volleyball program last fall.

Slutser, currently suing the school over her alleged experience with the former transient teammate Blaire Fleming, Pakinomist told Digital that she and her family made the decision because she didn’t feel safe on the Bay Area Campus anymore.

“I just wanted to go and I wanted people to say things to me as if I had a girl just scream ‘f — you!’ To me, “Slusser said. “I was in the elevator once in my apartment, and some girls when they went out were like ‘oh, it’s the girl you should have beaten her when you had the chance’ so these types of things happened.

“I literally just didn’t feel safe. Whenever I left the house, I felt people were like staring at me, I felt I had to look at my back every time I was on campus.”

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College Senior first joined Riley Gaines’ lawsuit against NCAA in September, claiming that SJSU -Volley -Trainer and Administrators withheld Information on Fleming’s birth sex from her during their first season together in 2023, all while being done to share shifts and sleeps with the trans -atlet.

In November, Slusser filed his own trial against SJSU and The Mountain West, along with 11 other conference players and one of her former coaches, claiming Fleming conspired with an opposite player to make her spik in her face during a match. This lawsuit also alleged head coach Todd Kress tried to get slushes removed from the team.

Despite this, Slusser continued to play for Kress and together with Fleming, all while regularly being open to recovering trans athlete in women’s sports. Her advocacy was given national media attention.

However, with that attention later came fear of her safety. Slusser claims she received several threats that led to her decision to leave campus this semester.

“I also had some threats that came in, so you never know what people want to do,” Slusser said. “People threatened to confront me on campus and just those types of things.”

However, Slusser added that she did not report most of these incidents to the university administrators.

“I didn’t, because everything that happened was almost like a norm, so I can’t really do anything about what people say to me and as long as they don’t put their hands on me, they can say what they want,” she said.

San Jose State is currently under investigation by the US Ministry of Education for potential violations of title IX, which took place during the program’s handling of Fleming, and University President Cynthia Tenientte-Matson told Pakinomist Digital that the university will cooperate in the process.

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BROOKE Slusser, #10, and Blaire Fleming, No. 3 by San Jose State Spartans, calls a spectacle under the first set against Air Force Falcons at Falcon Court at East Gym on October 19, 2024 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew WeVers/Getty Images)

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A spokesman for the San Jose State made a statement to Pakinomist Digital who addressed the Slusser’s situation and insisted that the university would have taken steps if the case was reported. She simply chose to return home instead.

“San José State takes these questions seriously and will follow up on all complaints or problems reported to us or we have information about,” the statement reads. For slusses, even though the university had taken steps to tackle the threats, the mental toll with Fleming and her coaches weighs too strongly on her to remain in California.

“It was probably the most traumatizing thing I’ve ever gone through in my life,” Slusser said. “I was so drained and I fancy for so long, I just ran on the adrenaline by trying to get through it, and I would honestly say I was a little numb for everything for a while and I really lost myself. I would like to consider myself a pretty happy person and I wasn’t that person for a while.”

Slusser is not the only one from last year’s team that has distanced itself from the university in the wake of the scandal. Almost every player from the 2024 team, which had remaining NCAA eligibility, entered the transfer portal shortly after the season ended in December.

Former assistant head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, who was the only coach in the staff who spoke against the university’s handling of Fleming and filed a complaint in title IX against the school, had not been renewed by SJSU after it expired in January.

Batie-Smoosis then suffered a vandalism event when her home was shot on by a pellet gun earlier this month. Police have not decided a suspect or motivation, but Batie Smoosis told Pakinomist Digital that she believes she was targeting her recent advocacy against trans-cluttering.

For Slusser, however, the silver lining lies in the experience of the national influence she has made in the conversation about trans -clad in women’s sports and recent legislative changes made to tackle it.

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“I went through having to do this a lot, but there is still not a second where I guessed it or wished I had never done this. It was hard, but I knew it would be .. And there is still so much to change, but there is definitely good baby steps in the right direction,” Slusser said.

President Donald Trump adopted “No Men in Women’s Sports Act” on February 5, and one day later NCAA changed his gender eligibility policy in response to the order.

Still, many states in the United States, including California, have refused to comply with Trump’s executive order so far and continue to allow trans -athletes to compete in women’s and girls’ sports.

“I get DMS from younger athletes weekly saying basically ‘I go through this, I’ve seen everything that has happened to you, how have you handled it?’ And it makes me so sad that even young ladies in athletics have to go through this so much, ”Slusser said.

“It makes me honestly so angry because I just don’t really understand how someone can’t understand it so strongly … It swirls my mind that they still even try to fight for it when everyone knows it’s wrong.”

The protection of women and girls in the Sports Act is set to have a vote in the US Senate within the next week after passing the Representative House as Republican lawmakers aim to establish a stricter national precedent to crack down on trans inclusion in girls and women’s sports across the country.

However, the bill needs the support of several democratic senators to beat the Filibuster and make it to Trump’s desk.