Signal

[benbret]

NFHS rules.
1. What is the correct signal if a player touches the ball a second time and it is also the teams 4th touch.
2. Correct signal if on the teams 3rd touch a player hits the ball into the net and the same player catches the ball as it comes out of the net.

[Scrapper1]

I only use NCAA-W, but I can tell you what I was told and why, and then you can decide if it's worth listening to.

I was told that if you have a choice of a team fault or an individual fault, give it to the team. So if a player's second contact is also the team's fourth contact, I would indicate 4 hits.

In your example of a player catching the ball out of the net, I would again call 4 contacts.

[Antonio.King]

I believe Scrapper is right. Both NCAA and NFHS say the 4th contact by the same person should be ruled as 4 contacts. USAV, on the other hand, states it should be ruled as a "2 hits" violation if the contact is made by the same person.

[outathm]

The 4 hit signal has been explained to me this way:

If anyone else had hit it, it would still be illegal. That is why it it is 4 hits, not the double/ illegal hit signal. If someone else had doubled on the next hit, it is not illegal from that, it is illegal from the touch.

[FMadera]

Caveat on the NFHS interpretation. If the 3rd contact is a double contact (as opposed to successive contacts) which would be signalled with two fingers if it were the second contact, the signal would be "two" and not "four."