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. The other schools to forfeit are Boise State (twice), Nevada, Utah State and Southern Utah.

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.”

San Jose State's women's volleyball team will have a match scratched from its schedule for the seventh time this season amid controversy over a transgender athlete.

The University of Wyoming women’s volleyball team will forfeit its second match against San Jose State this season, the school announced Friday.

A campus police officer stood at the entrance of Cox Pavilion on Thursday as friends, players’ families and students trickled in. But well before the Rebels took the court against San Jose State for a volleyball match,