2024 JGLA Annual Meeting recording

2024 JGLA ANNUAL MEETING

2024 USA guidebook

2024 Cheat Sheet

 

2023 Cheat Sheet

2023 Rules Interpretation Presentation

2020 Guidelines Document

2020 goggle list

JGLA Rules & Guidelines

The Jersey Girls Lacrosse Association (JGLA) was established as an organizing tool to assist Member Programs in the growth of girls’ lacrosse and to facilitate communication and competition between those programs. We are the largest girls only youth lacrosse organization in the country and the 6th largest overall chapter with US Lacrosse nationally. We are extremely proud of the fact that we lead the nation in the number of certified level 1 coaches in the women’s game.

The Association emphasizes that inter-town competition at the youth level be instructional and foster a positive experience for all involved. It is expected that each Member Program will support our mantra of “Honoring the Game” and stress a love for the game as well as skills and rules of play. Good sportsmanship on the part of all players, coaches and fans is always the standard.

The Association strives to comply with the US Lacrosse Youth rules and we refer you to the 2015 Women’s Rule Book Official Rules for Girls and Women’s Lacrosse. Those rules also govern youth girls’ lacrosse except where US Lacrosse has amended otherwise. Those amendments are based in part on exhaustive surveys of rules in leagues representing nearly 170,000 youth players and on research and published literature from the US Lacrosse Sports Science and Safety Committee, resulting in the development of age-appropriate playing rules and the annual publication of the “Youth Rules and Best Practices Guidebook for Girls.” US Lacrosse has made some modifications.

SPORTSMANSHIP STATEMENT:

There will be NO TOLERANCE for UNSPORTSMANLIKE behavior such as negative statements or actions between players, coaches, officials, and fans. This includes TAUNTING, BERATING, or ANY ACTIONS THAT RIDICULE OR CAUSE EMBARRASSMENT TO THEM. If such comments are heard, a penalty will be assessed immediately.  WE ARE ALL A TEAM; the players, coaches, parents, and officials.  The purpose of youth town lacrosse is to learn and grow in the spirit of the game and the JGLA wants to encourage GREAT behavior.

Home team pays officials.  PAY 2024:

3/4 = $50

5/6 or 7/8 2 officials $60 each.  1 official $90

Pay 2025:

3/4 $55

5/6 or 7/8 $65 each 1 official $95

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Key Rule Changes for 2023

• Points of Emphasis Page 8 of Youth Rule Book
  • SPORTSMANSHIP The rules committee wants to emphasize the critical role of sportsmanship in the safety and positive experience for the student athlete. Sportsmanship is based on a respect for the rules of the game and for one’s opponent. Coaches, players, officials, administrators, and spectators in the interscholastic environment have an expectation to demonstrate behavior that creates a positive and encouraging atmosphere. The committee encourages officials to provide effective communication and game management to help deter acts of unsportsmanlike conduct. When such methods are not enough to manage behavior, those in violation should be held accountable with the administration of cards. Event management can serve as an asset in creating an expectation of respect within the playing facility and creating a positive and competitive atmosphere.
  • KNOWLEDGE OF THE RULES Officials, coaches and players must know and understand the rules of the game. Parents and spectators also benefit by knowing the rules. The NFHS Girls Lacrosse Rules Book defines the rules and requirements for girls lacrosse while promoting fair play and striving to minimize risk of injury for student-athletes. Knowledge of the rules by officials helps ensure proper rule enforcement and fair play, minimizes conflicts, and reduces risk of injuries. Knowing the rules allows coaches to teach their players how to properly play lacrosse and model good behavior. Knowing the rules as an athlete provides athletes with the ability to maximize performance on the field and compete in a safe manner. Knowing the rules as a parent or spectator allows parents and spectators to better understand the game, support the athletes, and encourage good sportsmanship.
  • DANGEROUS USE OF THE STICK Dangerous use of the lacrosse stick, including but not limited to actions such as the follow-through, slash, check to the head, and other risky activities warrants our utmost attention. Using the stick in this type of disruptive manner jeopardizes the safety of players on the field. Officials must immediately stop play and issue a card when this occurs. Coaches should consistently teach and reinforce safe play and legal stick use. Players can avoid this type of activity by always playing in a controlled manner, making safe checks, having their body and stick in a legal position when checking or defending an opponent and playing with discipline and in accordance with the rules. Understanding, teaching and playing lacrosse with the stick in a safe and legal manner will decrease injuries, improve game management, maintain the pace of play and uphold the integrity of the game of girls’ lacrosse.
  • PROFESSIONALISM USA Lacrosse continues to encourage all coaches, players, officials, and administrators to conduct themselves in a professional manner before, during, and immediately following all contests. The rules committee reminds coaches and players to avoid the use of excessive dissent or abusive language and reminds coaches to stay in his or her coaching area. The committee encourages calm, patient, and productive dialogue between coaches, players, and officials.
• RULE CHANGES 2023:
  • Elimination of the requirement to apply pressure to the ball in the pocket during crosse inspection.
  •  Players below the restraining lines may not step on or over the restraining line (when applicable) after the official’s hand is in contact with the sticks at the draw and until after the restraining line is released, regardless of the number of players between the restraining lines.
  • Allows a player fouled outside the critical scoring area to take the free position and self-start, when self-start is allowed, within 4 meters of the spot of the foul.
  • Allows a defensive player awarded a free position to self-start when there is a foul by an attack player within the critical scoring area unless the game clock is stopped.
  • Eliminates alternation possession for offsetting fouls when one of the fouls requires the issuance of a card.
  • Allows the goalkeeper, or her deputy, to carry the ball into the goal circle upon possession or to return the ball to the goal circle after being played.
  • Moves administration of a free position for a 3 second violation from the spot of the ball to the 12 meter fan when the ball is outside the critical scoring area and above the goal line extended.
  • Eliminate the prohibition for a player to follow through with their crosse into the goal circle on a shot

JGLA COACHES rule interpretation meeting card:

• Two coaches on sideline: One coach must have JGLA ID card.
• Three coaches on sideline: Two coaches must have JGLA ID card.
  • Or the game is played down a level…Transitional check becomes modified.  Modified becomes no check.  No check is just played.
• BOTH teams must designate the sideline manager for their team and have them present at the coin toss
• It is the responsibility of the towns to ensure that all participants have acknowledged the ethic and sportsman code of the JGLA

Coaches Need Proof of Certification with Them AT ALL Times. Only 3 coaches on the sideline per team.

}Transitional Checking – An attempt to dislodge the ball from an opponent’s crosse in which the checking movement is down and away from the body and outside a 12-inch sphere surrounding the head is allowable.

The checking motion may not reach across an opponent’s body. (across two shoulders)

}Any check into the sphere constitutes an illegal check.

}Check to the head and a slash are mandatory yellow cards.

The Home Team will Designate a Timer

• 7/8: 25 minutes running (if coaches choose they stop under 2 in CSA) 2 time outs
• 5/6: 20 minute halves (stop under 2 in CSA) or 25 minutes running 2 time outs
• 3/4 or 1/2: 18 or 20 minute halves (maximum) 8 v 8 with a goalie…ALWAYS only 7 field players 1 time out

Goal Differential

• MODIFIED checking, when a team is up by 4 or more goals, they have the option at any time to take a free position

USA LACROSSE YOUTH RULE BOOK

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All Youth

Will play regular US Lacrosse Women’s Rules with the following modifications:

• No Deputy
• No follow through into goal circle on a shot
• Regulation field stick (35.5”minimum and 43.25 “ maximum) and pocket EXCEPT for 3/4 and 1/2
• NO Overtime in the JGLA

• Grade 7/8 Select or 7/8 transitional checking specifics

  FULL CHECK LISTED IN ARBITER SELECT ONLY: Any check to the head is a mandatory yellow card. Player sits and team plays short for 2 minutes of elapsed playing time.

Grade 5/6 & Travel 7/8 Specifics

• Modified checking or no checking. A check to the head may be a yellow or red card. Player sits and team plays short for 2 minutes (yellow), 4 minutes (red) of elapsed playing time
• Must count 3 seconds good defense.

3/4 Specifics (JGLA specifics are bolded)

• 7 v 7 field players goalie does not count(with goalies it makes it 8v8)
• 2 players must stay behind the midfield (restraining line)
• 5 field players are allowed below the restraining line. If both teams have goalies play with goalies (8v8), if one team does not have a goalie then no goalies (7v7).
• Regular women’s crosse, modified pocket allowed, may be cut to fit comfortably along arm
• NO SELF START
• Free Movement
• No checking
• Must count 3 seconds good defense
• Game starts with a draw and half starts with draw
•  After goal: After a goal the team scored upon will take the ball to the start and begin with a free possession with opposing team 4 m away on an angle WILL BE INDIRECT.
• Carded player leaves field for 2 minutes Yellow or 4 minutes Red. A substitute must take her place.
• Players are not permitted to cover under any circumstances
• 1 v 1 defense enforced midfield, but not within the critical scoring area
• Substitution may occur at any time
• If there is one goalie and both teams agree the goalie will play in the same goal for the entire game and the opposite goal will be flipped.

 

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