The San Jose State women’s volleyball team is reeling after the firing of Assistant Coach Melissa Batie-Smoose following her legal challenge over transgender athlete inclusion.

The San Jose State women’s volleyball team won a match Saturday without its associate head coach on the sideline after she reportedly filed a complaint about how the team had handled having a transgender player on its roster.

Shortly after the University of Wyoming’s decision last month to forfeit a women’s volleyball game against San Jose State due to the presence of a reportedly transgender player, associate head coach Becky Baker expressed concerns that a closely-divided team’s preferences about whether to play were being usurped by outside political pressure,

It became a campaign issue for President-elect Donald Trump, who made apparent references to San Jose State’s volleyball team at a town hall event in Georgia last month. He vowed: “We stop it, we stop it, we absolutely stop it. You can’t have it. You just ban it. The president bans it. You just don’t let it happen.”

Controversy surrounding the San Jose State women’s volleyball team is ramping up as the Mountain West tournament approaches. The Spartans (13-5, 11-5 MW) are second in the conference behind Colorado State (16-8,

San Jose State University’s associate head coach for women’s volleyball, Melissa Batie-Smoose, has been suspended indefinitely amidst a growing controversy surrounding transgender inclusion in women’s sports.