The match featured metal detectors outside Peterson Gym, additional security and police officers stationed behind each bench

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.

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.”

A San Jose State University women’s volleyball assistant coach has left the team after reportedly filing a Title IX complaint about the squad’s male-to-female transgender player.

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,

Suspended San Jose State women's volleyball associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose spoke out about the dire situation plaguing women's sports.

The forfeit announced on Friday marks the second time this season that Wyoming has canceled a match against San Jose State, as well as the seventh time overall that the Spartans have had a match canceled because of forfeits.