Another first contact "double" situation.

[Scrapper1]

I worked as a LJ in a D1 match last night. There was a play that generated a lot of discussion. Team A attacks the ball and player B1 dives toward the net and successfully "pancakes" the ball, keeping it off the floor. The ball bounces away from the net and hits B1's foot and then passes directly over the net, landing inbounds on Team A's side of the court.

The ball obviously contacts B1 twice, but B1 did not make a separate attempt to play the ball. Both contacts were part of B1's initial dive.

Is this a double?

[bob jenkins]

My view: As long as B1's actions did not include any movement of the leg / foot in reaction to the ball (and only in what she would have done as part of the dive even if the ball were down, say, or headed in another direction), play on.

I think we've seen balls deflect from the arms to the head on first contact and judged that legal -- this is really no different.

[FMadera]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I worked as a LJ in a D1 match last night. There was a play that generated a lot of discussion. Team A attacks the ball and player B1 dives toward the net and successfully "pancakes" the ball, keeping it off the floor. The ball bounces away from the net and hits B1's foot and then passes directly over the net, landing inbounds on Team A's side of the court.

The ball obviously contacts B1 twice, but B1 did not make a separate attempt to play the ball. Both contacts were part of B1's initial dive.

Is this a double?

It's obviously a double.

But is it illegal? It doesn't ugly as sin, but quite possibly/likely, legal.