backcourt

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Originally posted by Ralph Stubenthal
With that in mind, I fail to understand why the player who jumps to catch a pass with a foot in front and the other in back court has backcourt status.

I think the player you describe does have backcourt status.

NFHS 4-35-3 (paraphrased) says an airborne player's location is determined by where he/she was last in contact with the floor.

NFHS 4-3-2 says "A ball which is in contact with a player is in the frontcourt if neither the ball nor the player is touching the backcourt."

Based on the latter, I would say the player has backcourt status before he/she became airborne. Based on the former, he/she would retain that status while airborne.