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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
Juulie - here's what I would have done.
A1 is about to shoot free throws. A1 is discovered to be wearing earrings. I would make A1 leave to remove the earrings and wait for her. If she refuses to remove them, she is out of the game and her sub can shoot. However, I would not let A1 reenter the game at all, even if she then removes the earrings because that would give an advantage to team A.
If the howler monkey complains, stick a banana in his yap and scratch him behind his ear. He'll calm down.
BTW - if you still need to give up games because of your trip to Metricslovakia, let me know. Thanks.
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I am using your play Mark P. for my posting. All of the rules codes (NFHS/NCAA, NBA/WNBA, and FIBA) prohibit the wearing of jewelry. The prohibition is a safety concern.
When a player is found wearing jewelry in a game played using NFHS/NCAA rules, the player must be substituted for immediately. In Mark's play the substitute for A1 will shoot the free throws and A1 can return to the game at the first opportunity to substitute after the clock has started, assuming that A1 is no longer wearing jewelry.
It is not a technical foul for playing while wearing jewelry. It is should also be remembered that an official cannot make a player remove his/her jewelry, only prohibit a player from playing while wearing jewelry. But a player can be charged with a technical foul in connection with wearing jewelry. A few years back in the Ohio AAU Girls 18U Championship Tournament (NCAA Women's Rules), I noticed a girl wearing earrings during the pre-game warm-ups; she had her hair pulled back. I reminded her that she could not wear jewelry and play at the same time. Once the game started I did not pay attention to her because she no longer was wearing her hair pulled back. After a time-out in the second half, I was about to hand her the ball for the throw-in when she pulled her hair back and there were bandaids over her ear lobs where the earrings were. I asked her what were under the bandaids and she told me she was covering her earrings with them. I had her replaced immediately under the jewelry rule and charged her with a technical foul for unsportsmanlike conduct for trying to hide the earrings under the bandaids. The technical foul was not for wearing earrings but for the unsportsmanlike act of trying to conceal them after being told before the game that she could not play and wear the earrings at the same time.