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.”

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.