An open spaced drill you can get the kids warm while working on their stick and ball control!
Set Up
Use a designated area on the field or use cones to create one, that the players must stay inside of. Every player has a ball, and on coaches whistle, they will start running around 50% speed. They must keep their head up and make an escape dodge every time they meet another player inside the circle. If you want to make it a game, players will leave the are if they drop the ball, or run out of bounds. The last player standing wins! Add a coach in for light defense to make it more challenging
Coaching Points and Principles
Progressions
- Use more constraints, specific dodging styles
- Add in defenders and coaches for light pressure
- Make field smaller to make it more challenging or larger to make it easier
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- Cradling and Ball Control! Keep the stick protected
- HEAD UP! See where you are running, don’t run into another teammate
- Use both strong and weak hands
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A passing drill to work on our quick stick passing and the 1 more call!
Set Up
Put your players in groups of 3 and spread out around field. They will get into a triangle shape about 10 yards away. They are just going to pass the ball around the triangle trying to catch it loaded, and pass it quickly with the next teammate calling “1 MORE”. Add in a 2nd ball so they have to react quicker after they make a pass
Coaching Points & Principles
Progressions
- String the triangle to 5 yards so they have to pass quicker
- Add a 3rd ball
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- Stickwork – getting comfortable catching and passing quickly – try to catch it loaded
- Communication – Make sure they yell “1 more” so their teammate knows to pass
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A game that forces the offense to find quick advantages off restarts and the defense to communicate and get into proper positioning
Set Up
On half field, play 4v4. Give the offense a 15 second shot clock. Play until one of the following happens
Once one of this has happened, coach blows the whistle and rolls a new ball in to the offense into a random area. The Defense must get back into the house/hole area to protect the goal, and the offense must move quick to find scoring opportunities.
Coaching Points & Principles
- Fast restart – Offense should try and take advantage of a defense that is spread out, and attack open space to get them to slide/rotate
- Defensive communication – Off restarts, they need to match up and make sure they are supporting for help/slides
- Play 4v3 for the youngest players so there is always an advantage
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- Shot/Goal
- Goalie Save/Def Clear
- Defensive Clear
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A great unsettled small area game designed by Jim Mitchell of Princeton Lacrosse
Set Up
Play 4v4 above GLE, and add a player at X on offense. The X player can only transfer the ball, they cannot dodge or shoot, but the defense must play them when they receive the ball. That will create an unsettle situation above GLE as the players move the ball through X
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- Offense – Get them to dominos and find the advantage. Work the 2-3 player game above GLE
- Defense – Communicate, protect the house, and slide/recover efficiently.
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Play a live 6v6 Scrimmage and let kids play
Optional Constraints:
- Ball must go through X before offense can score. If the defense takes this away as strategy, you can carry through X, but that will be the adjustment
- 2 points for every goal started with ball reversal
- 2 points for defense if they intercept any passes or knock Dows
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