EXPLANATION AND PROCEDURES REGARDING MEDICAL TIME-OUTS GIVEN TO A COLLEGE PLAYER SO HE/SHE CAN GO TO THE BATHROOM AT AN UNAUTHORIZED TIME.
1. This MTO should be given when a player (man or woman) tells you they
cannot wait until the authorized time (changeover or set-break). This is a
one time occurrence per match.
2. The MTO (3 minutes) starts when they get to the bathroom and stops
when they leave the bathroom. Travel time is not included in the
3 minutes.
COMMENT: Chair should go with them or know how much time it
will take for them to get to the bathroom and back. Before going to a
given court check the time it takes to get to a restroom.
3. If they come back late from the 3 minutes and allotted travel time, the
Penalty should be Time Violations. (This agrees with the procedure
we follow when a male player is late from a bathroom visit on a
changeover or set-break.)
4. This MTO is not the one MTO allowed per match for Division I players.
See Page 250, H–1–a
5. The 3 minutes given for something in a player’s eye (Page 250, H-5)
is not considered an MTO. Try to use good judgment and common
sense.
IT WAS NEVER THE INTENTION TO DEFAULT A PLAYER BECAUSE HE/SHE HAD TO GO TO THE BATHROOM.
6 comments:
You left out part of the rule, that extra time may be granted if the bathroom is a distance away from the courts which is a judgment call and coaches regularly decide whether the bathroom is close enough.
Even the NCAA's have allowed additional time to get to the bathroom.
One is good - if they agree. Besides, if the players want to go to the bathroom a medical bathroom break is allowed!
Just felt the need to reply to this one. In the NorCal section we treat men's bathroom breaks the same as women's (reasonable time). The "explanation" that was put out by Bruce Avery (and supposedly written by Jane Goodman) on how to implement the men's bathroom break has no basis in history, fact or regulation and tries to treat the break the same way as it's done in the pro's. We shouldn't be taking officials away from matches in progress (especially in roving situations) to escort players to and from the bathroom. Men's bathroom breaks aren't abused in this section and I would hope that the ITA will eventually change the rule to mirror the current rule that is used by the women.
Mike Luevano
When we go to the bathroom with the player do we have to check for verification of the event as a "number 1" or "number 2"?
Signed,
The Grape of Wrath
Bruce Avery and Jane Goodman do not write the ITA rules. The Coaches Rules Committee does this and Jane
passes the information on to the USTA personnel and umpires.
The college rules are then printed in the FAC and there is nothing about escorting players to the bathroom.
Well I just be damned:
tennis officials, priviliged to watch the last of the honorable individual mano a mano sporting contests,
now are debating seriously the considered length and need of bowel movements, especially urinary, of high intensity dehydratable tennis athletes.
As an ill fated ITA coordinator, hated by all for every possible reason,
Should I now learn that it is best to select officials by
their special nuanced handling of
the bowel movement break.?
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