SJSU volleyball scandal probe finds team allegedly recruited male for advantage without telling female players

Fox News Digital questioned San Jose State Athletic Director Jeff Konya on the controversial 2024 volleyball season that included a lawsuit over a trans athlete, but ended the interview after about just five minutes and walked away.

"In April 2022, [former San Jose State University] women's indoor volleyball head coach [Trent Kersten] began actively recruiting a male volleyball athlete from another university to join the SJSU women's indoor volleyball team," alleges official U.S. Department of Education (ED) findings.

"Most, if not all" the female SJSU players shared intimate spaces with the trans athlete without knowing the athlete's birth sex, per the findings.

"The evidence is that at various times, most, if not all, of the women on the team at the time of sharing a dorm room, hotel room, and/or locker room with Student 1 were unaware that Student 1 was a male."

What happened next has become the subject of a years-long media controversy and ongoing legal dispute between the entire California State University system (CSU) and President Donald Trump's administration. The CSU is suing to challenge ED's findings that determined SJSU violated Title IX in its handling of a trans athlete from 2022-24.

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Trent Kersten, formerly of the Loyola Marymount Lions, signals to his players during the first set against the Washington Huskies in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament at Stanford Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, Calif., on Dec. 6, 2024. (Eakin Howard/Getty Images)

The findings allege that SJSU's head coach at the time, only titled "Coach 1" in the files but Fox News Digital reasonably believes that coach to be Kersten, said a trans athlete