NCAA Jewelry question
 

Today, we had an NCAA player wearing a bar across the inside of her ear. It was secured to the ear with studs. But I thought that we were told at this year's clinic that this bar was not legal. But my R1 disagreed, saying the bar was snug to the ear and the studs were legal. So we allowed her to play with it in.

This is what she was wearing. Legal this year? Or still illegal?

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-yfjn...097180.jpg?c=1

Like you, I have this as illegal.

I went looking for the rules presentation on RefQuest and PAVO and couldn't find it. Am I looking in the wrong spot, or is it not posted?

We seem to have a difficult time agreeing on what "snug" is. There will be something sent out (hopefully soon) by Julie Voeck, and Ryan McDowell sent something yesterday as well.

For now, I think I'm going to have the coaches address it, and I'm going to say "most, if not all, of the hoop/post needs to be touching the ear. Anything dangling is no good."

Ryan's email yesterday just repeated the 4(?) pictures from the video -- all were pretty obvious, at least to me.

The bar (as from the OP) could be an issue. I have also seen small hoops -- or maybe they were large cuffs ;) -- while the "loop" went from the front of the ear to the back, there was a mm (or so)gap. My rule of thumb -- If I could "flick" the hoop and it would move independently of the ear, it's too loose. (I wouldn't actually try this test during a match, of course.)

So last night I was there early, and both teams were courtside early, so I gathered everyone around (one team at a time) and had them check their jewelry, and told them any hoops/loops/etc needed to be snug to the ear, with the insides touching ear entirely (or really close). They understood, removed anything too big, and there were no issues. It was a pretty calm D3 setting, not sure if I'd do that for D1 (probably just have the coach deal with it instead).