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After hearing that the San Jose State University women's volleyball team has a transgender player in its lineup, the University of Wyoming women's volleyball team discussed the matter and decided to play its scheduled match against the undefeated California school on October 5th anyway.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the controversy erupted this past week when a San Jose volleyball player joined a group of women's lawsuit against the NCAA.

"Her premise for joining is that she was grooming with and training with a transgender member on her team, and just found out about it not too long ago. In fact, she went some time without knowing about it, and the lawsuit says that she's concerned for some of the women's safety, and she's also concerned that having the transgender player gives her team an unfair edge."

In an email Tuesday, the California school told Cowboy State Daily that no other teams have canceled their volleyball matches against San Jose State.

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Devils Tower National Monument is investigating what led to the sudden death of 21-year-old Stewart Porter, who fell while descending Devils Tower Sunday evening.

Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that while the investigation will ultimately reveal what likely happened, to cause the fall, a climbing death is something that reverberates throughout the climbing community.

"As one of the Devil's Tower climbers I spoke to said, the risk is real, but the thrill is real as well. So … it's not about skill, and it's not about anything like that. This can happen to any climber on any route. It's more a question about, you know, preparedness and redundancies, or what many people said, and that's just the unfortunate nature of these sort of things."

In more than a century of people climbing America's first national monument, Porter's is only the seventh climbing-related death on Devils Tower.

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The future of University of Wyoming athletics became murkier Monday when Utah State University said it's leaving the Mountain West Conference for the Pac-12 Conference.

Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that the Aggies are the fifth school to leave the Mountain West this month, which now only has seven teams left, including UW.

"This is probably not going to mean the death of the conference, though, which is what Gary Crum told me. He's a former UW football star and running for the Wyoming Legislature right now. He thinks the schools that are truly loyal to the Mountain West will stick around, and the fact that the conference is getting a large sum of money as far as the exit fees and poaching fees it's receiving as a result of all these schools that are leaving."

The Pac-12 conference lost all but two of its members in 2023 in an exodus initiated by the universities of Oregon and Washington.

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