Game Day Rules
1. Game Day Attire
What should I wear to school?
- Home and Away Matches - all players
- Tuesday matches - black t-shirt and jeans
- Wednesday matches - white t-shirt and jeans
- Thursday - grey t-shirt and jeans
- All District Home Matches and Senior Night - all players
- dress up (no jeans)
- Day Before Home Tournaments - only players participating in tourney
- jeans and tourney t-shirt
- Day Before Away Tournaments - only players participating in tourney
- jeans and Woodford volleyball t-shirt
- Post-Season Competition - only Varsity players
- TBD
Which jersey should I wear?
- Home matches - EVERYONE SHOULD ALWAYS BRING BOTH!
- black jerseys
- Away matches - EVERYONE SHOULD ALWAYS BRING BOTH!
- gold jerseys.
- Tournaments - EVERYONE SHOULD ALWAYS BRING BOTH!
2. Be on time for away game and tournament departures. All departure times are listed on the team calendar.
- Players are expected to arrive 10 minutes before the bus departure time.
3. Players are allowed to ride home from AWAY MATCHES with their parents or another adult designated on the bus transportation waiver form after their respective team plays. The adult must check with the coaching staff and sign that he/she is taking the player before leaving.
- Players must help with warm ups for the match immediately following the one they played in before being allowed to leave.
- If a player leaves before completing warm up duties or without a parent signing her out, the player will sit out the first game of the next match.
4. ALL players are expected to participate with home match set up, warm-up, and tear down responsibilities.
- Set up and tear down responsibilities will rotate between teams for home matches. The jobs are as follows:
- Crew 1: gate table, score table, clock, microphone, 2 game balls, 2 flags, book, bleacher trash
- Crew 2: bench chairs, score table chairs, gate chairs, water cooler and towel, locker room trash
- Crew 3: net, referee stand, sweep floor, 2 ball carts (25 balls in each), lock cage and basement door
- Warm-Up Duties: Players assigned to cover warm-up duties must be on Woodford's bench as soon as the captains' meeting begins.
- Freshmen players assist during JV warm-ups.
- JV players assist during Varsity warm-ups.
- Varsity players assist during Freshmen warm-ups.
- Failure to be Punctual and Assist with Player Duties
- 1st offense: warning
- 2nd offense: sit out 1 set
- 3rd offense: sit out 1 match
- 4th offense: sit out all matches remaining during the season
5. ALL players are expected to be present for ALL Freshmen, JV, and Varsity home matches to show support for their teammates.
- This excludes home tournaments.
- Exceptions to this rule may be made by the head coach for academic reasons or emergency situations.
- Requests for exceptions should be kept to a bare minimum.
- Players must help with warm ups for the match immediately following the one they played in even if an exception has been granted.