While participating in Intramural Sports is meant to be fun and laid back, there are some duties for which a team manager is responsible. The following is a list of some of the responsibilities of Intramural team managers:
- Be knowledgeable of all Intramural Sports rules and policies and be able to communicate them to team members.
- Prior to the start of each season, a meeting will be held for the managers of team sports or the participants of an individual sport. Meeting dates and times will be listed on imleagues.com. At the meeting, league rules, policies and procedures will be reviewed; this will be the last opportunity for Managers to clarify any questions prior to competing. All manager meetings are mandatory. If the team manager is unable to attend the meeting, then another representative from the team will be expected to attend.
- Managers who do not attend the meeting will inherit the following consequences: their team will play all regular season games as scheduled, but will not be allowed to participate in the playoffs
- Ensure team members are present at least 10 minutes prior to game time with their Cat Car
- Read all league emails from the Assistant Director of Intramural Sports and/or Graduate Assistant and pass any pertinent information on to team member
- Ensure the eligibility of all players on his/her team. If there are any doubts, the Assistant Director can help verify eligibility
- Inform all team members of game dates, times and any schedule changes
- Be the teams lone representative to communicate with officials and supervisors on the field/court
- Keep team members, coaches and spectators under control before, during and after all intramural gamesAddress any questions or concerns of team with Assistant Director of Intramural Sports.
Section 2. Scheduling Information
Schedules
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Team Sports
- League play schedules shall be prepared and made available before the first contest in league play. Schedule can be viewed on imleagues.com. Play-offs will begin immediately after league play.
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Tournaments and Events
- Brackets/schedules shall be prepared before or at the game site. Players have to be available for the entire tournament/event
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Play by Dates
- If the sport is a play by date format, individuals should contact their opponent and play when both are available prior to the score report date.
Playoffs
- Most events will have a playoff tournament or championship series following the regular season. The number of teams competing in the playoffs will vary according to number of teams entered in each activity. Playoffs will be single elimination for league sports and either single or double elimination for other tournaments and events.
- Brackets will be set up prior to the tournament and schedules will be posted on imleagues.com. Game times will be chosen at random.
- Intramural Sports reserves the right to put a team in a higher bracket if the team is deemed to be losing on purpose during the regular season or is dominating the league.
- In order to make playoffs, teams must maintain a 2.5 conduct rating through the regular season. (See Article 5, Section 6)
- Playoffs will typically begin immediately after the regular season ends.
- Any team wishing to petition up a class in the play-offs for more equal competition must fill out a petition form at the Intramural Sports Office by 5pm the day following the final day of regular season league play. Teams will be petitioned up based on the intramural staff making a decision that will be fair to all teams entered in each particular class.
Section 3. League and Event Registration
- All leagues, tournaments, and events will require pre-registration on www.imleagues.com
- IMLeagues offers a live support button in the top right corner of all pages; please use this button if you encounter any difficulties.
- The Intramural Sports Program reserves the right to change any team name that is deemed inappropriate or offensive to participants (including but not limited to: names involving profanity or of an offensive or sexually explicit in nature). Please use proper judgment when selecting names and uniform artwork. If you are unsure if a team name will be accepted, contact the Intramural Sports office and speak with an Intramural Sports representative. If uniform artwork is deemed inappropriate the team will be asked to not wear the uniforms.
Section 5. Forfeits and Defaults
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Forfeits
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Not enough players/Tardiness/No show
- Teams or individuals not ready to play with enough players present to start the game based on the rules for the sport in question, within 10 minutes after the scheduled time for the contest, will lose by forfeit.
- A team claiming an at game time forfeit must be present at the scheduled game time and ready-to-play with the minimum number of players needed for the specific sport
- Teams arriving late for a scheduled contest, but within the 10 minute forfeit time, will be assessed a penalty according to the sport rules.
- If neither of the teams arrives by the scheduled game time, the game will be recorded as a double forfeit and each team will be given a loss and a forfeit on their record.
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Eligibility
- One or more of the players participating is ineligible and therefore may not participate. Ineligibility may be due to the player being a roster violator, being previously ejected, and ruled ineligible for sportsmanship-related issues, etc.
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Sportsmanship
- Game is ended by sportsmanship related issues.
- If a team forfeits they will receive a 2 for their conduct rating
- The team that wins the game by forfeit will receive a 4 conduct rating, however if the forfeit is due to eligibility or sportsmanship, the original conduct rating given to the winning team will stand as is.
- If a team forfeits two league play games of any nature, the team will be automatically dropped from further competition.
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Not enough players/Tardiness/No show
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Defaults
- If its impossible for a team, individual or doubles team to play a scheduled contest, and if the team manager, individual or doubles team notifies the Intramural Sports office in person or by phone, by 2:00 p.m. the day of the game, the game will be scored as a loss by default.
- The intramural office will contact the opponent in case of a default. If you do not receive confirmation from the intramural office, the game has not been defaulted.
- If a team defaults two (2) league play games, the team will be automatically dropped from further competition.
- If a team defaults a game, they will get a 3 for their conduct rating.
- The team that wins the game by forfeit will receive a 4 conduct rating
- If a team has one default and forfeit in a regular season, they will be automatically dropped from further competition
- Eligibility and sportsmanship forfeits do not count towards the two-default/forfeit limit.
Section 6. Reschedules and Inclement Weather
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Reschedules
- If time and space are available the intramural staff may agree to reschedule an intramural contest. For a contest to be officially rescheduled proper procedures will need to be followed.
- Reschedules must be completed and agreed to by both teams at least one day prior to the originally scheduled contest. For a contest on Sunday or Monday, reschedules will be accepted no later than noon on the Friday before the contest.
- Requests for rescheduled games can only be made in person at the intramural sports office.
- It is the responsibility of the postponing team to contact the opponent and arrange a mutually convenient time to meet at the intramural sports office. During the regular season, no game may be postponed beyond the date of the final season game. During playoffs, all postponed games must be played prior to the following scheduled contest.
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Postponements/Inclement Weather
- Contests may be postponed or canceled due to poor weather, poor field conditions, or power outages.
- A decision of whether to play or cancel games will be made, in most cases, at 3:00 pm the day of the inclement weather. The Intramural Sports supervisor may cancel games on site, if necessary. Information on the status of games is available by calling the Intramural Sport Information line at 828-227-8808 or visit imleagues.com.
- If time, space, and personnel are available, the Intramural Sports Office will reschedule games that are cancelled due to inclement weather. Teams should check with the Intramural Sports Office and IMLeagues for rescheduled games. The Intramural staff will attempt to contact managers about rescheduled games due to inclement weather, but it is ultimately the managers responsibility to check themselves.
- Outdoor sports may be played in all types of weather and are only cancelled when there is a danger to participants or the possibility of damaging the playing fields.
Section 7. Sport rules and rule change
- Sport rules are based on National Intramural Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA), National Associations, and National Federation of High School rules with modifications, when appropriate.The rules of each sport will be discussed at the managers meeting and are also available on imleagues.com and the Intramural Sports web page.
- General rules and regulations for each sport will be made available to students before competition begins. The Intramural Sports Office reserves the right to put into immediate effect any new sport rule changes or modifications. Before doing so, the Intramural Sports Office will notify participants through team managers.
The Intramural Sports Program realizes that on occasion an official or supervisor may incorrectly interpret and/or enforce a rule. The purpose of a protest is to insure an equal opportunity for victory.
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Rule Interpretation
- Protests can only be made concerning rule interpretations and player eligibility, NOT judgment calls.
- Judgment call examples: charge in basketball, lift in volleyball, fair catch in football
- Protests must be made on the field of play at the time of the incident before the next live ball situation. The team manager should first notify the head official, and then the supervisor. If the manager does not immediately notify the official of his/her intent to protest, he/she waives all rights to protest that particular call.
- Upon notification by the team manager of a rules interpretation protest, the official/supervisor shall stop the game and note the existing game situation on the protest form. Both team managers shall sign the protest proceedings and agree to continue according to the supervisors and officials ruling.
- Protests not following this procedure will not be considered
- Once a team has been eliminated from play (too many forfeits, a protest renders them ineligible, losing a game that knocks them out of playoffs or for some other reason is no longer competing) they are not able to file a protest of any kind.
- If a protest is upheld, the contest will be replayed from the point at which the protest occurred, as determined by the score sheet. The Intramural Sports Program will set a date and time.
- The Intramural Sports Program does not assume the responsibility for checking on the eligibility of participants. However, any cases called to the Programs attention by written protest will be dealt with according to eligibility rules.
- The Assistant Director shall have the authority to establish special rulings whenever deemed necessary. Sometimes exceptional situations do occur.
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Eligibility
- An organization or individual may protest the eligibility of an opponent. All participants must present their student I.D., faculty/staff I.D., at the game site if requested by the game official. If the player cannot present proper identification at this time, he/she will not be allowed to participate until he/she can present it.
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REGULAR SEASON, PLAYER ELIGIBILITY PROTEST: A written protest concerning a players
eligibility can be filed with a supervisor before, during or after a contest.
- If a protest is filed before or during a regular season contest and it is known by the site supervisor that the player is ineligible, the player and Manager will be notified before the game begins and given the choice of whether or not the player will participate. If the ineligible player plays, the contest is a forfeit.
- If a protest is filed before or during a regular season contest begins and it is NOT known by the site supervisor that the player is ineligible, the player and Manager will be notified that the contest is being played under player eligibility protest and the intramural sports staff will contact the Managers the following business day. If the player chooses not to participate, then the protest will not affect the team.
- If an eligibility protest is filed after the game or at another time during the regular season, the player in question will be reviewed and a determination will be made as soon as possible.
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PLAYOFFS, PLAYER ELIGIBILITY PROTEST: All eligibility protests must be filed prior
to the clock starting any contest. The player and Manager will be notified that the
contest is being played under player eligibility protest. If the protested player
chooses not to participate, then the protest will not affect the team.
- If the protesting team wins the contest, the protest filed will be negated.
- If a protest is filed in writing with a site supervisor before the playoff contest begins, the Intramural Sports Staff will make a determination the next business day on the validity of the protest. If the eligibility protest is found to be valid, the guilty team will forfeit and the protesting team will advance, with all previous rounds remaining the same.
- If an eligibility protest is filed during or after a contest, the team wanting to earn a forfeit and advance will not be eligible because they failed to protest prior to the start of the contest. Therefore in playoffs, to ensure a team will advance if the opposing team is playing with an ineligible player, there must be a protest filed in writing with the supervisor prior to the start of the contest.
- In the case a player arrives late and a protest is warranted for their eligibility, the official protest may be completed at the time of that players arrival.
- Jewelry - Participants are not permitted to wear any visible jewelry (including cloth bracelets and necklaces). If jewelry is seen, it must come off. The Intramural Sports staff WILL NOT provide bandages or athletic tape to cover jewelry items.
- NO casts/splints will be allowed under any circumstances. Players who wear a knee brace with exposed metal, hard plastic, or metal hinges are required to cover it with padding or foam at least
- Headgear Policy: Headgear is not allowed to be worn by any participant during an intramural event, except for one-piece head/sweat bands that do not have to be tied or do not have any form of knot(s). Illegal headgear consists of any hats, bandanas, baseball caps, winter/wool hats, metal or hard plastic headbands and any other such similar headgear. Elastic headbands and hair control devices without metal, hard plastic, or bandanas without knots are permitted. For outdoor sports, winter/wool hats are allowed. Baseball-like hats are allowed only during Intramural Softball.
- Religious Headwear In the event a participant may not expose his/her uncovered head, the intramural supervisor may approve a covering or wrap which is not abrasive, hard or dangerous to any other player and which is attached in such a way that it is highly unlikely to come off during play.
- Medical Alert Bracelets Medical-alert bracelets must be taped and may be visible.
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Footwear
- Indoors all players must wear athletic shoes with non-marking court soles. Hard-soled shoes of any kind will not be permitted.
- Outdoors all players must wear athletic shoes (except for sand volleyball). Metal cleats, spikes, or toe cleats will not be permitted. Molded soles are permissible.
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Apparel
- Participants must wear athletic style shorts or pants. Denim and khaki style shorts or pants are not permitted. Pockets and belt loops are not allowed in flag football
- Shirts must be worn in all activities.
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Uniforms
- Team uniforms are not provided, however it is strongly encouraged that teams wear matching colors especially t-shirts
- Intramural Sports will provide colored pennies for those teams without matching uniforms
- Members of the Intramural sports staff, including student supervisors and game officials, may ban the use of any footwear, apparel or equipment deemed hazardous to participants. All decisions made by the Intramural Staff on duty shall be final.
The Intramural Sports Program will furnish standard equipment for all activities with exception of personal items (softball gloves, shin guards, etc.). Participants may check out equipment from the Campus Recreation Center equipment checkout upon presenting their CatCard. However, certain items may not be available for checkout.
All pets must be leased and attended to at all times. If an intramural participant owns the dog, then that participant is responsible for finding someone to be with the dog while they are participating. It IS NOT acceptable to bring a dog and tie it to a fence or pole while participating. Dog owners are also responsible for cleaning up after their pets. Please dispose of any pet waste in the trashcans. No pets are allowed in the football stadium or at indoor venues.
Section 12. IM Employee Authority
Intramural supervisors and officials have the authority to rule on any situation not specifically covered in the rules as deemed necessary to ensure the safety and well being of the participants and of the Intramural Sports program. This includes, but is not limited to, issuing warnings, stopping the game and making weather decisions.