Head Contact & High Sticking

NOTE: Referees are encouraged to use discretion in applying the Head Contact rule in the context of the player standing at a normal height. For greater clarification, a player that makes contact with the head of a smaller player who is at a normal height should still be assessed a Head Contact penalty as they were at a normal height. The provision and clarification for “normal height” is used in situations only where a player is lunging or in an abnormally smaller height that results in head contact where otherwise no head contact would take place if the player had been playing at a normal height.