The two-thirds of the court which run from the ten foot line to the endline is called the backcourt and is where the backrow players stay when playing in defense.
Players on a team must stay within their half court during reception of serve.
Players can go off the court to retrieve a ball back into their court as long as they stay within the designated playing area.
Volleyball Game Rules The Net
The net is placed on top of the centerline and runs parallel to the endlines and perpendicular to the sidelines.
According to official volleyball game rules, the net's purpose is to separate the two opposing teams and to create a barrier for the ball to cross over after being contacted a maximum of three times by each team.
Volleyball Game Rules: The purpose of the volleyball net is to separate the two competing teams and to create a barrier for the ball to pass over during a rally.
If you serve the ball over the net and the ball touches the net on its way over, then bounces into the opposing team's court
a) the ball hits the floor - if it hits the floor inside the opposing team's half court then its a Point for your team. Your team gets to serve again. This is called an "ace" serve.
c) end the rally - because the ball hit the floor outside of the opposing team's half court. Point for the opposing team. Opposing team gets to serve.
Volleyball Rules For Dummies: Volleyball Scoring: How To Score A Point
A team can score a point by
a) completing an action, whether its with a
1. soft hit
2. hard hit
3. a block
that results in the ball hitting the floor on the opposing team's half court before the opposing team can contact it to get it up and back into your team's court.
Then the opposing team gets three contacts on the ball to get the ball, BACK over the net...this back and forth will continue until the ball hits the floor or goes out on someone's side.
Volleyball Game Rules: When the receiving team wins the rally, their players will rotate one position, so the last person who served, during the last rally they won, will NOT serve again.
hit the ball so it contacts the antenna on its way over into the opposing team's court
block a serve that will land inside the ten foot line
rotate out of zone or position or serve out of order
commit an overlap in serve reception
as blockers, block the view of the opposing team passers from seeing the server on the serving team
Liberos
A libero is a specialized role for a player with superior defensive skills.
The libero wears contrasting colored jerseys than her teammates so its easy to differentiate her from the rest of the team.
This is because a libero can enter in and out of the backrow for a front row player when that front row player has rotated to the backrow to serve.
Like a pinch hitter in baseball, the quicker, faster defensively skilled libero will play for that taller player in all three rotations for her in the back row.
The player she came in for, will return into the game when itstime forthe libero to rotate up to the front row.
Volleyball Rules For Dummies: What a Libero Can and Can't Do
be inside the ten foot line and set a front row player who then uses their spike approach to hit a ball that's above the level of the net. If a libero sets a ball to a front row hitter and she is inside the ten foot line, the hitter has to hit a down ball .
cannot enter the court, at the start of each set, until the second referee gives the go ahead after checking the team's rotation on the score sheet.
Volleyball Rules For Dummies: What Can a Team Do?
A team can work together to score 25 points before the opposing team does.
The team who is first to score 25 points and has an advantage oftwopoints wins the set.
Volleyball Rules For Dummies: How To Win A Match
A "match" is a predetermined minimum number of maximum sets that will be played with a pre-declared minimum number of sets that must be won by one team in order to declare a winner.
There are the best of five set competitions called "matches".
There are the best of three set competitions called "matches".
Most collegiate, club and international indoor matches are three out of five sets.
The first team to win three sets of 25 points wins the match.
Your team can win three in a row. If so your team wins the match.
Your team can win two sets, the opposing team wins one, then your team wins the fourth set. If so your team wins the match.
The opposite applies.
If in any order, your team wins two sets and the opposing team wins two sets, then a fifth "tie breaking" set is played.
Tie break sets are played to 15 and not 25 points.
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