Medical Alerts - question from a coach..

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by Dan_ref
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"Dear Mr. Official: Please allow Little Amy to play with her medical alert on today because as you know under NFHS rule 3-5-6 medical alerts are explicitely allowed if properly taped. Regards, Tournament Director).

[/B][/QUOTE]And who has to decide if the medic alert bracelet is properly and legally taped?

Mr. Official has to make that decision, not Mr. Tournament Director.

What we seem to have here is a failure to communicate. I think that we basically agree but we're coming at this from different perspectives.

Yes, the official should sureashell know the rule and it's application. Yes, the coach and/or the tournament director should certainly be able to bring the proper ruling to the official's attention- either with a letter or hiring a sky-writing plane for all I care. No, the tournament director doesn't get to make the final ruling on how the bracelet is to be worn however. That's the official's job. Hopefully, in a perfect world, the official gets it right. That's the point I was trying to make.