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This is an open note to all those officials who let players wear illegal equipment:
While observing warm-ups last night, I discovered two players on one team with illegal equipment on his/her wrists or fingers. One had played in the JV game with the brace in place. After seeing this and then inspecting the equipment placed on the thumb of another player, I wondered; was I the only person that inspected these braces this season? After looking at the thumb brace, it was made of softer plastic on the sides, but had harder plastic on the top. The coach said that "everyone else had looked at it and said it was legal" and even mom came over and proceded to tell me how much it cost and that the person that sold it to her told her it was legal.
Bottom line here is that if you allow braces that have hard plastic supports on them (espically on the hand/wrist area), you are opening yourself up to a liability situation. So please, check anything on players that looks like a brace. Make sure if it is worn, it is properly padded so I do not have to look like the bad guy again! One person not checking the equipment puts all of us in a bad situation.
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