Brooke Slusser remembers the day she moved into “the villa.”
It was a four-bedroom apartment in San Jose, California with white walls and no decorations. Her mom and dad drove her and all of her things there, all the way from Texas.
She was the first tenant to show up that semester.
Slusser was about to begin her junior year, as a transfer from Alabama, to play her 2023 college volleyball season for SJSU and head coach Todd Kress.
Slusser alleged Kress is the one who encouraged her to live in that apartment. At the time, there were two apartments filled with SJSU volleyball players that were looking for one more tenant on the lease, she claims.
But Kress allegedly told Slusser to move into “the villa” because he thought she would “get along better” with the women in that unit, she claimed.
