Be the Referee: Back Row Setter
By
Paige Winne
MHSAA Marketing & Social Media Coordinator
November 12, 2024
Be The Referee is a series of short messages designed to help educate people on the rules of different sports, to help them better understand the art of officiating, and to recruit officials.
Below is this week's segment – Back Row Setter - Listen
We’re on the volleyball court for today’s “You Make the Call.”
Team A serves the ball over net. Team B’s number 9 passes, or bumps the ball up toward the net, where number 2 tips it over for a point.
But number 2 is a back row setter and moved to the front row on the serve.
Is this a legal play?
If you said it depends … you are correct.
A back row setter can move to the front row and play the ball over the net as long as the entire ball is NOT above the net.
If the ball is completely above the net, then the back row setter is not allowed to play it over the net from the front row.
Previous 2024-25 Editions
Nov. 5: Football OT - Listen
Oct. 29: Officials Registration - Listen
Oct. 22: Volleyball Serve - Listen
Oct. 15: "You Make the Call" - Soccer Offside - Listen
Oct. 8: Roughing the Passer - Listen
Oct. 1: Abnormal Course Condition - Listen
Sept. 25: Tennis Nets - Listen
Sept. 18: Libero - Listen
Sept. 10: Cross Country Uniforms - Listen
Sept. 3: Soccer Handling - Listen
Aug. 24: Football Holding - Listen
MIVCA Miss Volleyball Finalists Selected
October 1, 2013
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
The Michigan Interscholastic Volleyball Coaches Association has announced its finalists for this season's Miss Volleyball award, which will be given to a senior during the week of the MHSAA Finals, beginning Nov. 18.
This is the 12th year of the award. Battle Creek St. Philip’s Amanda McKinzie won the honor in 2012.
Find bios of each candidate and more at MIVCA.net.
- Krysteena Davis, 6-foot-0, middle hitter, Grand Haven
- Alyssa Garvelink, 6-3, middle hitter, Holland Christian
- Jami Hogeboom, 5-11, setter, Grand Haven
- Sierra Hubbard-Neil, 5-9, outside hitter, Battle Creek St. Philip
- Jessie Kopmeyer, 5-10, outside hitter, Birmingham Marian
- Maeve McDonald, 5-6, setter, East Grand Rapids
- Paige O’Connor, 5-11, outside hitter, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
- Christina Porada, 5-6, libero, Dearborn Divine Child
- Carli Snyder, 6-1, outside hitter, Macomb Dakota
- Holly Toliver, 6-2, outside hitter, Berrien Springs
PHOTO: Macomb Dakota’s Carli Snyder (right) prepares to receive a volley during last season’s Class A Final at Kellogg Arena. She led her team to its first MHSAA championship.