Volleyball Match Procedure
Submitted by webmaster on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 2:35pm
It has come to the attention of the GHSA office staff that Volleyball coaches are playing matches with procedures that do not follow NFHS rules. Many of these modification seem to be driven by time restrictions on play-days and tournaments. If an event has too many teams to follow the rules completely, then it has too many teams.
The Constitution and By-laws specify that GHSA sports follow NFHS rules unless those modifications are specifically addressed in the sport section of the by-laws.
The "best of three" format is approved in the NFHS rules book as a "state adoption", and it is the least amount sets allowed to complete a match. All three sets shall be played to 25 points with no cap. All sets shall begin with the score 0-0.