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By definition it is traveling if a player on the ground "tries to get up." Here is my question. A player has the ball while laying prone on her stomach. She rises to her knees, then passes.
Here is what I did and why. I did not call a travel. My reasoning was her knees were on the ground when she was laying down and they stayed on the ground as she got to her knees. My feeling was her status did not change as I just described. If she went from 2 knees to 1, travel, if she goes from 1 knee and stands, travel, but I'm not sure about this exact play. Another official I talked to about it tonight said "her stomach was her pivot point, so when it rose off the ground, she traveled." What would make her stomach be her pivot point?
No one would have said a word if I had called traveling, but I didn't think she was trying to get up, and her knees stayed on the floor the whole time. What are your opinions? Is there any "concrete" rule evidence I am missing?
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