2016 GIRLS VOLLEYBALL SPORTS INFORMATION BULLETIN
August 2, 2016
The official girls’ volleyball season for the CIF Los Angeles City Section is scheduled for the period of Monday, August 8, 2016 to Tuesday, October 25, 2016. First allowable contest is August 18. Teams qualifying for playoffs may continue to practice until eliminated. Practice on a holiday is not authorized without prior approval from the School Principal or Commissioner. Schedules can be obtained at the website www.cif-la.org on the volleyball page or at www.maxpreps.com.
VOLLEYBALL COACHES MEETING
A mandatory meeting for all volleyball coaches will be held on Monday, August 15, 2016, at 4:00 p.m. at Sotomayor High School. Refer to the Section Gold Book regarding attendance at the coaches meeting and the penalty for failure to attend.
RULES
All games will be played under 2016-17 National Federation rules. Consult the Section Gold Book for additional rules relating to volleyball. The home school must provide an adult who will, at all times, be in charge of scoring and timing. Rule Books can be viewed on the Section website: www.cif-la.org. Click on the officials’ dropdown at the top of the home page, and then click on Rule Books.
Varsity matches shall be the best three-of-five sets. Junior Varsity and Frosh-Soph matches shall be the best two-of-three sets. Rally scoring will be used for all sets. Schools that offer Junior Varsity and Frosh-Soph are required to indicate this on their Sport Confirmation sheets submitted to the Section Office.
Home teams will provide a suitable number of official game balls for each contest. Home school must ensure that the NFHS authenticating mark is on all game balls. The Molten “super touch” volleyball must be used in all playoff matches.
Home teams must provide visual scoreboard for scoring, as well as provide the official scorekeeper and libero tracker, when a libero is used by the home team. If only the visiting team uses a libero, the visiting team must provide a libero tracker.
RULE CHANGES
All coaches must be aware of Section rules (and changes) as they pertain to student eligibility, school responsibilities,
and the sport of volleyball. Please refer to Rules and Regulations Governing Interscholastic Athletics (Section Gold Book).
OFFICIAL BALL
For competition in the sport of volleyball within the CIF Los Angeles City Section, it is recommended that the red, white and blue Molten “super touch” volleyball be used during the regular season as it is the required ball for the playoffs.
PRACTICE
CIF Bylaw 506 allows for 18 hours per week of practice and no more than 4 hours per day is allowed for practice. Games will count for 3 hours toward the total practice time allowed. CIF does not allow practice, meetings, or any contact on Sundays. School site administration will determine if teams can practice on Saturday or Holidays.
All volleyball games will begin at 2:30 p.m. UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. All schools should check opponent’s schedule for details. Warm-up time between the Junior Varsity and Varsity matches WILL BE NO LONGER than 21 minutes.
GAME LIMITATION
CIF Bylaw 1302 - in the sport of volleyball, teams are allowed a maximum of 22 contests per season per level (not to include Section or State playoffs). Students that are moved from one level of competition to another are not allowed to exceed the 22 game limit or play in multiple levels against the same scheduled opponent.
TOURNAMENTS
As per the LACS Board of Managers action (April, 2010), all sports are allowed a maximum of four tournaments per level. Schools are allowed to reach the 22 game level by any combination of scheduling non-league, league and tournaments. Tournaments will count as two (2) games when they meet the restrictions as set in the rules and policies regarding tournaments in the 2016-17 Gold Book.
OFFICIALS
The officials will be assigned by the officials unit assigned to the league. Playoff and championship officials will be approved by the Section Office. Please submit officials’ evaluations via CIF Home to provide the Section with current information on officials’ performances to determine playoff and championship assignments.
INCIDENTS AND EJECTIONS
The Section Volleyball Officials’ Liaison, Myra Einberg, will be responsible for investigating all incidence and ejections.
If there are any incidences that need to be reported to the Section, please email information to .
All ejections must be processed on the CIF Home website by your school’s athletic director.
MAXPREPS
MaxPreps is the “Official Digital Media Partner and Statistician” of the CIF Los Angeles City Section. Our partnership with MaxPreps provides all member schools with a streamlined process to submit information for important CIFLACS initiatives. In order to accurately manage these important initiatives, the CIF LA City Section requires all coaches to update their scores on MaxPreps throughout the season. This was approved by the LACS Board of Managers in April of 2015.
Gold Book Bylaw 1012 REQUIRED POSTING OF GAME SCORES ON MAXPREPS
All coaches in sports that are served by MaxPreps are required to post game scores on the MaxPreps website within 24 hours of the conclusion of the game. Training will be provided to coaches at the annual coaches meeting to provide information and instruction for accessing the coach’s administrative site to post scores. MaxPreps will provide the Section staff with data of postings to assist with compliance.
Coaches that fail to comply with the required posting of game scores will be notified and provided a due date for posting of scores. If non-compliance continues after the assigned date, the following actions will be activated:
a. Penalty for failure to post game scores after each game
i. First violation – Reminder sent to Athletic Director and Head Coach
ii. Second violation – Contact the Administration
iii. Future violation – $100 fine for the season.
b. Penalty for failure to post ALL contest scores prior to the seeding meeting date will result in NO home games for playoffs.
PLAYOFF DATES
Round 1 (I thru V only) Tuesday, November 1, 2016 7:00pm Higher Seed Site
Quarterfinals (ALL) Thursday, November 3, 2016 7:00pm Higher Seed Site
Semifinals (ALL) Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:00pm Higher Seed Site
(OD consolation semifinals play as well)
Finalist Meeting Wednesday, November 9, 2016 1:00pm Section Office
Open Division only Thursday, November 10, 2016 7:00pm Higher Seed Site
(OD semifinal losers play to determine 3rd and 4th)
(OD consolation semifinal winners and losers play to determine 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th)
Finals Thursday, November 10, 2016 TBD
Division V Championship 5:00pm
Division IV Championship 7:30pm
Saturday, November 12, 2016 TBD
Division III Championship 10:30am
Division II Championship 1:00pm
Division I Championship 3:30pm
Open Division Championship 6:00pm
SOCAL Regional Round One, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 @ Home Sites
SOCAL Regional Quarterfinals, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016 @ Home Sites
SOCAL Regional Semifinals, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 @ Home Sites
SOCAL Regional Finals, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016 @ Home Sites
STATE Championships Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016 @ Santiago Canyon College, Orange
For assistance, please contact Sports Coordinator Dick Dornan in the Section Office at (818) 767-0800
APPROVED: JOHN AGUIRRE, Commissioner, CIF Los Angeles City Section
DISTRIBUTION: Athletic Director, Administrator, and Girls Volleyball Coach
This bulletin can be found on the Section website: www.cif-la.org