The National Collegiate Athletic Association

Official Volleyball Signals

1 2 3 4 5
Ball out of bounds,
ball illegally outside
Ball
Point Ball in Ball in antenna or player
crossing
(Winner bounds bounds illegally in adjacent
plane
of Rally) (Referees) (Line Judge) court. (Referees and
under net
Line Judges without
flags)

6 7 8 9a & 9b 10
Ball out of
Antenna
bounds after
Ball Ball out of fault (Line
contact with Line violations,
out of bounds after Judge)
a player interference, or
bounds contact with
(Referees center line fault
(Line a player Line viola-
and Line (Referee)
Judge) (Line Judge) tion (Line
Judges with-
Judge)
out flags)

11 12 13 14 15
Held,
thrown or End of game
Ball illegally
carried or match
contacted
ball held Blocked
more than Timeout Substitution
against from seeing
once by a
net, or the ball land
player
assisted (Line Judge)
hit

16 17 18 19a & 19b 20

Player illegaily
touches net or
interferes with ball
Illegal service in net on opponent’s
Authori-
or ball not Delay of side Double fault,
zation for
released at time service Served ball does not or play-over
service
of service cross plane of net,
touches teammate,
or falls to reach net

21 22 23 24 25
Player Illegally
positional reaching
fault, wrong over the net Illegal
Illegal Ball contacted more
server, or contact attacker or
block or than three times by
wrong posi- with op- illegal attack
screen a team
tion entry, or ponent over of the serve
illegal player the top of
in game the net

26 27 28 29 30

First contact
Individual Team or block
sanctions sanctions Change of Authorization travels over
(First (First Ref- courts to enter or outside the
Referee) eree) antenna (Line
Judge)