Teams:
- A team shall consist of a minimum of four players and a maximum of six players. All teams are co-ed. During the course of play, there needs to be at least 2 of either male/female on the court at all times.
- A player may play on one team only.
- Eligible participants must be current IWU students, faculty, staff or administrators.
- Failure to have your team on the court within 5 minutes after the scheduled starting time will result in a forfeit.
Equipment:
- The Intramural Sports Program will provide volleyballs.
Rules of the Game:
- The referee shall toss a coin to determine either the choice of court or the serve. One captain shall make the coin toss call. The winner of the toss shall have the choice of service or team side. The team receiving the service first shall serve first in the second game.
- Teams will play one game to 25 rally scoring. The final game will be best 2 of 3.
- The server shall stand back of the rear boundary line and serve from anywhere behind the line.
- Each member of a team shall serve in turn. The server shall continue to serve until a side out is declared. Serving out of order causes a side out and loss of points scored during the serve.
- The server must not step on the service line when serving. If this occurs, a foot fault is called and the opposing team is awarded the serve.
- Touching the net with any part of the body while the ball is in play is a violation. It is not a violation, however, when the ball is driven into the net, causing it to touch an opposing player.
- Inadvertent stray fingers over the net not contacting the ball or affecting play shall not constitute a violation. However, a player may not reach over the net to play the ball. The vertical plane of the net may not be broken.
- The ball must be distinctly contacted; it may not be lifted, pushed, thrown or followed with the hands.
- Playing the ball twice in succession constitutes a violation, except when two or more players touch the ball simultaneously. This counts as one contact.
- If a spike is blocked, the block itself is not counted as a contact; the team still has three remaining contacts and the blocker can be the next to contact the ball.
- A serve cannot be blocked.
- Rally scoring will be utilized. In rally scoring, points will be awarded for each side out.
- The ball must be returned over the net after no more than three contacts.
- When a ball in play touches a boundary line, it is considered good.
- Teams shall change courts at the end of each game and after one team reaches 8 points in the third game.
- After the service is delivered, players may take any position on their respective sides of the net.
- A player, except when serving, may play the ball with any part of his/her body.
- A ball, other than on service, may be recovered from the net if the player avoids contact with the net.
- Players may leave the boundaries to play a ball during the actual play, but they must be in their own areas when the ball is served.
- The games will be self officiated.
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