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6x6 Women/ Men Volleyball Rules

I. ELIGIBILITY

A. Each team shall consist of six (6) players. However, a team may start and continue with four (4) players. If Coed, at no time can the number of men playing on a team exceed the number of women on a team by more than one and vice versa.

B. Volleyball etiquette requires that a player call his or her own violation (i.e. touching the net, stepping over the centerline, double set, etc.). There are not officials for 6x6 volleyball.

C. FORFEIT TIME IS TEN MINUTES AFTER THE HOUR. TEAMS SHOULD BE READY TO PLAY BY TEN MINUTES AFTER THE HOUR-THIS MEANS YOUR TEAM SHOULD ARRIVE EARLY ENOUGH TO WARM UP OR YOU WONT HAVE TIME TO FINISH YOUR MATCH!

D. Players have until the THIRD game to sign the waiver. Players who do not sign the waiver by the third game will not be allowed to play for the rest of the quarter.

E. ID cards are mandatory when entering the gym at which you will be playing. Players need to bring ID’s to every game or they will not be allowed to play for that Game.

A. The net is eight feet high for men and coed, and seven feet, four and a quarter inches for women.

B. The court is sixty feet by thirty feet

A. The ball is out-of-bounds when it touches any surface, object, or ground outside the court. A BALL TOUCHING THE BOUNDARY LINE IS GOOD!

B. The ball must pass over or between the side boundary lines as it crosses the net.

C. A player may run outside the court to play the ball, but cannot cross over an imaginary line extending from the center line.

D. The centerline, under the net, may be stepped on and over as long as some part of the player’s foot is still touching the line

A. The serve will be decided by the toss of a coin and the team that did not serve first game will serve the second game.

B. When it is a team’s turn to serve, the team must immediately rotate one position clockwise before serving.

C. Both feet of the server must remain behind the end line of the court until after the ball is served

D. If the served ball touches the net, a teammate, or an object before touching an opponent or the opponent’s court OR if the ball passes under the net or beyond the boundaries, a side-out is called.

E. If a player serves out of turn, a side-out shall be called and any points made on his/her service before the error was corrected will not count. His/her team must regain its proper position before the opponent’s serve.

F. If the ball hits the basketball hoops, is still on your side, and the team still has a chance to get it over the net, the ball can still be played.

G. Teams shall change courts at the end of each game and at the start of the new games the players may be arranged in any position.

A. The ball must be clearly batted or hit. NO CARRYING, HOLDING, OR THROWING THE BALL IS ALLOWED.

B. A ball, other than the serve, touching the net within the sideline markers and going over into the opponent’s court is still in play.

C. Each team may play the ball up to three times before it is returned over the net, BUT no player may hit the ball twice in succession, except when blocking at the net.

D. Simultaneous contacts of teammates shall be considered as one play only, and either player may hit the ball next. When two opposing players hit the ball simultaneously at the net, this shall not be considered as one of the three hits allowed to the team on whose side of the court the ball falls.

E. Blockers may reach over the net, but must let the attacker hit the ball first. Blockers may not reach over the net to block a set.

F. When more than one player participates in blocking the same opposing player, it will constitute a multiple block and simultaneous contact. Either of the blockers can play the ball next, regardless of whether or not he/she touched the ball in the act of blocking.

G. At front-line player may spike the ball over the net. Back-line players may spike the ball providing that they take off with both feet behind the ten-foot line.

H. Spikers can follow through over the net, but must first contact the ball on their side of the net.

A. A player may not contact any part of the net, cable or support, except when the ball is dead. When a ball is driven into the net so that it causes the net or its supports to contact an opposing player, there is not violation

B. A player is allowed to reach over the net without contacting it, as long as the ball is not contacted before the other team makes a play on it

C. A player may not reach under the net and touch the ball or a player on the opposing team when the ball is in play on that side, or interfere with the play of the opposing team by entering their court, or distracting.

D. A ball, other than a serve, may be recovered from the net, providing the player avoids contact with the net and does not catch the ball.

E. A foul such a touching the net, gives a point or side out to the opponents if it occurs while the ball is still in play

A. Requests for time outs can be made ONLY TWICE during a game without penalty. A team may be penalized a point or a side out for each additional time out.

A. A match consists of the best two out of three games. Please remember that when you play the third game unnecessarily, you are preventing two other teams from getting their fair allotment of time

B. A team has won when a team scores 25 points with a two point advantage. If a team has 25 points and does not have a two point advantage, the game shall continue until one of the teams does have a two point advantage or reaches 30 points. If teams are not done by the end of the hour then the next leagues turn to play.

C. If both teams tie with same number of wins, the third match shall consist of leaving one winner going up to 15 points with a two point advantage, if not, the game shall continue until one of the team reaches 20 points.

ALL OTHER USVBA RULES APPLY UNLESS MODIFIED BY SPECIFIC INTRAMURAL RULES.

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