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Wallyball

Information

4on4; Men, Women, and Corec divisions offered; Register a team or as a free agent; Games played in the Racquetball Courts of the Student Recreation Center

Rules

All standard Intramural Rules and NFHS rules apply except with the following changes/clarifications:

Wallyball is a team game that is played with a round inflated ball in an area where a net is placed between 2 or more walls. Play is started by one team hitting the ball "off the wall" or directly over the net to the opposing teams' floor area. The opposing team attempts to prevent this by hitting the ball off the side or back wall and volleying it back over the net. The ball is out of bounds whenever it touches the ceiling, hits the back wall, or hits two or more walls on the serve or volley. The back wall is in play only on teams' side that's returning the serve or volley.

Court Boundaries

• The racquetball courts serve as the wallyball courts
• The short serving line in racquetball courts will be designated as the center line
• The back wall is in play only on the team's side that's returning the serve or volley providing a player on that team touches it first
• The ball is out of bounds whenever it hits the ceiling, hits the back wall on a serve or a volley, hits two or more walls on a serve or volley

Team and Players

• Teams shall be composed of 4-person teams. A team may start with two players.
• Co- Rec : 4-person teams; must have two men and two women and cannot have more men than women on the court
• Maximum number allowed on any roster is 7. Once the maximum is reached, teams will NOT be permitted to add or modify their roster.

Position of Players

• The server shall serve from within the serving area.
• Players shall be positioned as follows: 1 player up and 2 players back, or 2 up and 1 back. After the ball is hit for serve, players may move from their respective positions.
• At the moment of service it is illegal for the players of the serving team to place their arms forming a screen with which to hide the server’s action, or to jump, or form groups of two more players for such a purpose.

Service

• For the first game of match one, the captains of the two teams shall call the toss of the coin. The winner gets their choice of the service or playing area. The team not serving first shall start serving the second game. The team with most combined points (1st & 2nd game) shall start serving the third game if needed.
• Teams shall change playing areas at the end of each game of the same match.
• A team shall continue serving until that team commits a foul or the game is completed.
• When the serving team commits a foul, the ball shall be given to their opponents, who shall rotate one position clockwise.
• The right back player of the serving team shall be the first server of the game. Thereafter, the player rotating from the right forward to the right back shall be the server.
• The server shall serve from the within the serving area and shall not touch the lines bounding this area on the floor outside this area at the instant the ball is contacted when hit for the serve. A part of the server's body may be in the air over or beyond these lines.
• A player shall not serve out of turn. An out-of-turn service may be called by opponents' captain. The points made on this service shall be canceled and the side-out service is called, there shall be no loss of point. In either case players of the team in error shall return to their proper positions before another service by either team.
• A served ball is dead if it: 1) touches the floor of the serving area; 2) a teammate of the server; 3) passes through or under the net; 3) lands out of bounds (hits back wall); or 4) touches the server-side wall.

Net Play

• A player shall not contact any part of the net while the ball is in play. When the ball is driven into the net so that it causes the net to contact an opposing player or players, this is not a foul if they did not actually contact the net by their own motion.
• In returning the ball a player may follow through over the net, providing they first contact the ball on their own side of the net. Player(s) in the act of blocking may reach across the net but may not contact the ball until their opponent has hit the ball to return it.
• A player may touch the center line but not the floor on the opposite side of the center line while the ball is in play. Any part of a player’s body may be in the air below the net and beyond the center line if they do not interfere with the opponents play by touching the ball or an opponent.
• A ball (other than when served) may touch the net within or on the side when crossing to enter the opponent's playing area
• When only part of a ball crosses the net and is then contacted by an opponent, it is considered as having crossed the net
• When a player participates in blocking and makes only one attempt to play the ball during the block, they may make successive contacts of the ball during such a play. Player(s) participating in this play may participate in the next play; however, this second hit shall count as the second of three hits allowed by a team.
• Blocking can only be done by the front line. A player may not move up to assist. No more than 2 players may block a serve, spike, or volley.
• Net serves are legal.

Playing the Ball

• Simultaneous contacts of the ball with two or more parts of a player's body are allowed and are considered as one play
• Simultaneous contacts of the ball by more than one player on the same team are allowed and are considered as one play. Players participating in such a play may participate in the next play.
• A team shall not set or play the ball more than three times. The ball must clear the net on the third set or that team loses the point or the serve. Contacting the wall does not count as a set or play.
• The ball can be hit with any part of the body.
• Contacting two or more walls is only permitted on the team's side, after the player touches the ball. The ball shall not cross the net after contacting two or more walls.
• A ball hitting the wall or hit into the net cannot be struck by the same player on consecutive hits.

Scoring

• All games are played with rally scoring.
• Games are played to 25 with the third game (tiebreaker) played to 15; must win by two in all games.
• A match is won by the team who wins 2 out of 3 games.

League and Tournament Play

• Teams are permitted to substitute players only prior to their serve.
• Each team is allowed one 30-second time-out per game. There will be five minutes between games.
• You referee your own game.