2015 TCAL Volleyball Rules
Court: The playing area is 60’ x 30’ with a dividing line marking each team’s area as 30’ x 30’.
Posts (Standard and Net Height): Posts and standards are to be totally outside the sidelines. The height of the net will be 7’4 ½”. It is required that posts and the referee stand are covered with padding in order for a match to take place.
Sideout: When the receiving team wins the rally, it gains the right to serve and rotates clockwise. In rally scoring, a point is awarded.
Substitutions:
A player in the starting line-up may leave a game and re-enter, but only to his/her previous position in the line-up. A substitute may enter into the game in the position of a teammate of the starting line-up but then in only that position throughout that game. There are 18 substitutions allowed in a game.
Procedure of Substitution: The coach will call for a substitution during a dead ball. The referee will acknowledge. The players trading places stand facing each other at the sideline with one palm together with the other player. The referee will record the change, and then the substitute will take his/her position.
Uniforms:
All players will be required to wear a jersey or shirt with a readily identifiable number on it. If using a libero, their shirt must be a distinctly
different color than the rest of the players on the team. A different libero can be designated in each game but must have a different shirt also. Any visible undergarment must be the same color as the main color of the uniform top.
Number of Players: All Teams will consist of 6 players on the court at all times.
Game Rules:
receives the first serve will rotate before it serves for the first time.
If there is an even record when deciding seedings we will use head-to-head competitoions as the deciding factor. If the head-to-head games are even then we will use the differential of points for versus points against.
Correct rotation is clockwise. Game balls must be official weight and size and
be three colors as long as one of the colors is white.
Once the first game is finished the match can be counted if there is a reason it needs to be cancelled using the referees judgment (Ex. Weather, light, etc...).
Court: The playing area is 60’ x 30’ with a dividing line marking each team’s area as 30’ x 30’.
Posts (Standard and Net Height): Posts and standards are to be totally outside the sidelines. The height of the net will be 7’4 ½”. It is required that posts and the referee stand are covered with padding in order for a match to take place.
Sideout: When the receiving team wins the rally, it gains the right to serve and rotates clockwise. In rally scoring, a point is awarded.
Substitutions:
A player in the starting line-up may leave a game and re-enter, but only to his/her previous position in the line-up. A substitute may enter into the game in the position of a teammate of the starting line-up but then in only that position throughout that game. There are 18 substitutions allowed in a game.
Procedure of Substitution: The coach will call for a substitution during a dead ball. The referee will acknowledge. The players trading places stand facing each other at the sideline with one palm together with the other player. The referee will record the change, and then the substitute will take his/her position.
Uniforms:
All players will be required to wear a jersey or shirt with a readily identifiable number on it. If using a libero, their shirt must be a distinctly
different color than the rest of the players on the team. A different libero can be designated in each game but must have a different shirt also. Any visible undergarment must be the same color as the main color of the uniform top.
Number of Players: All Teams will consist of 6 players on the court at all times.
Game Rules:
- The ball must be served by the right back from behind the designated line and may be hit in any manner with one hand. The players will serve behind the end line and may not step on or over it before contact.
- The match will be determined by a coin toss. Game 2 will be started by the team that did not serve first in the
1st game after switching sides of the court. The home team will choose their bench before the pregame. - When the game begins and the receiving team earns the sideout point, the team must rotate before their first
server begins serving. - A player may receive one re-serve during their term of service. If a second re-serve is attempted it will be a
sideout point for the opposing team. - It is a foul for players to touch the net during play. Loose hair is not considered a foul.
- A served ball may not be attacked or blocked.
- The ball may be played only three times by one team in a volley, and a player may not play it twice in succession,
but may play it twice if it is played by a teammate in between. A block is not considered as one of the three allowable hits. - If a ball touches a player or a player touches a ball he is considered to have played the ball.
- When two opponents simultaneously hit the ball out of bounds or touch the net at the same time, the point is replayed due to the double foul.
- Balls may be played with any part of the body.
- A ball being spiked must be in the plain of the net, but you may follow through over the net (but not touching the net).
- Rally scoring:
- 2 out of 3 games
- 25 point games (no
cap) - 15 point deciding game (no
cap) - Included – let serve then play
on - 2 time outs per game, 60 seconds
in length
- A player may touch the floor across the centerline with 1 or both feet/hands/provided a part of feet/hands remain on or above the centerline. Contacting the floor across the centerline with any other body part is illegal.
- A back row player may not participate in a block, attack the ball that is above the height of the net while in front of the attack line or when leaving the floor in front of the attack line.
- All non-playing members and assistant coach shall be seated on the bench throughout the match. If yellow carded, then the head coach must sit the remainder of the match. (Exception: When coach stands to ask for substitute or time-out, during a time-out, or coach compliments their team’s play.)
- At the end of the game, players should move to their benches when the R1 signals end of game.
- Multiple contacts (more than one contact by a player during one attempt to play the ball) are permitted only on any first team hit whether or not the ball is touched by the block.
- No jewelry may be worn during the match or warm ups.
receives the first serve will rotate before it serves for the first time.
If there is an even record when deciding seedings we will use head-to-head competitoions as the deciding factor. If the head-to-head games are even then we will use the differential of points for versus points against.
Correct rotation is clockwise. Game balls must be official weight and size and
be three colors as long as one of the colors is white.
Once the first game is finished the match can be counted if there is a reason it needs to be cancelled using the referees judgment (Ex. Weather, light, etc...).