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Having just finished up a tournament season as a coach of a 7th grade girls AAU team I can honestly say no one around here calls an intentional foul. My point guard was fouled end of game, 7 seconds left, we are up by 1 We in bound ball and the defender grabs my point by the shoulders and throws her into the screen between the two courts. (I should mention that my point was a 4'8" 6th grader playing up and the defender literally tossed her across the floor. The other coach even pulled his player after that). I asked if it was intentional. Ref asks me if I think I'm playing in the NBA and that there is no intentional in NFHS rules, says I should read the rule book, etc.
He wasn't the only ref not to call an intentional. 9 weeks, 9 tournaments, around 40 games played and watched another 40 or so and never an intentional, boys or girls, didn't matter what grade level. I spoke with one of the officials after a tournament and he said that they are told to hold off on the intentionals, so rarely is it called.
Not a complaint, just an observation that the intentional is not something we see around here very often no matter what the level of play.
Coach G
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