Blood...and disinfectant?
 

Game today where girls is shooting a free throw. Notice a dime-sized spot of what appears to be dried blood on the jersey. Tell the coach we need a jersey change with no penalty. No problem or argument from the coach...he immediately takes her out of the game.

Time goes by...she comes back in with the same jersey! Coach states the trainer sprayed it with disinfectant. Confirm this to be true with the trainer. Jersey appears damp around the blood spot as though it was sprayed and rubbed/ground in.

Is this OK? Should we have forced her to change jerseys?

Oooh. Tough one. Scholastic game, I’ll probably be an apologetic stickler here. The rule says the blood can’t be there. Period. Go to the cage or locker room and get a spare jersey. Maybe even the opposing team can lend one.

If this is a less organized game, weekend youth game, etc., I’d be good with the intent to clean and disinfect as described. They probably don’t have any spare jerseys.

The NCAA rule is a little more forgiving. There, the blood simply can’t “saturate” the jersey. So rubbing it out with disinfectant probably suffices in NCAA.


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Actually, 3-3-7 says appropriately cleaned and/or changed, so I'm good with disinfected.

Uniform And/Or Body Is Appropriately Cleaned ...
 

Nice citation, full text below.

A player who is bleeding, has an open wound, has any amount
of blood on his/her uniform, or has blood on his/her person, shall be
directed to leave the game until the bleeding is stopped, the wound is
covered, the uniform and/or body is appropriately cleaned, and/or the
uniform is changed before returning to competition, unless a time-out is
requested by, and granted to, his/her team and the situation can be
corrected by the end of the time-out.

Does this fit your definition of appropriately cleaned? Sounds like it would meet mine.

Mine too. Rule citation did it for me. I learn something new every day!


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