Yellow Card For Lying

[jmaellis]

Last night I was the umpire during a V match. While observing the warm-ups I noticed player #11 on the visiting team had 3 or 4 cloth bracelets (friendship bands??) around her wrist. I told her to remove them. At the call for captains #11 shows up and has her wrist taped. I asked her if she just taped over the bracelets; she tells me that she did not. We go on with the meeting. after the meeting while I am briefing the scorekeeper and timer I notice #11 busily removing the bracelets from her wrist. R tells me that she checked the tape and felt the bracelets.

A card is required in this situation (4-1 Pen. 1). We issue a yellow. After the match I reviewed what happened and contemplated whether or not a red card would have been a more appropriate penalty in this situation because:

#11 didn't only not comply, she tried to deceive me by taping over the bracelets

and/or

#11 lied about it.

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