Off-Ball Support and Movement

Off-Ball Support and Movement
Please Note:The practice is designed to bring value across multiple age levels. You can use this as a foundation to build and develop your own practice. With that being said, we highly encourage you to adjust the drills based on your team’s age and skill levels. Lacrosse Drive should always be used as a starting point — you can make drills easier or harder by changing the constraints.	To make a drill easier, you might Increase the playing area, reduce the number of defenders or rules, add time or space to make decisions	Activities Donut Passing Open the Gates Passing 2v2 With Gates Scoop and Chase Small Sided Game
Donut Passing - Link to Drill	Set Up	Focus Points
Set Up Put players in groups of 4 or 5 and spread out on the field. Place one player in the middle, and have them start with the ball. They will find a perimeter teammate to pass to, and follow their pass. The new ball carrier goes into the middle, finds another perimeter player, gets a give and go, and then finds a new teammate. Coaching Points & Principles		Passing – Have soft hands and make good passes Communication – Players should be calling for the ball Target – Off ball teammates would have stick up as targets
Open the Gates Passing - Link to Drill	Set Up	Focus Points
A passing drill that works on spacing, ball control, and awareness Set up Create 4 gates using cones around the scoring are of the goal using cones. Put a player at each gate, and if you have additional players, they can go to the middle. It starts with a pass from a player carrying from a gate a to a new player, leaving they gate open. The ball must move in 1-2 passes to player at another gate. A player from the middle, can fill that space the ball carrier just left. Continue for 3-5 minutes, stopping when needed to talk about awareness and spacing Coaching Points and Principles Progressions Add in multiple balls for more experienced players See how many passes they can make without dropping as a challenge		Passing – get you head up and find a teammate to pass to NO Gates OPEN! make sure gates are filled so you can receive a pass Communicate Awareness and Spacing
2v2 With Gates - Link to Drill	Set Up	Focus Points
This Is a great competitive drill that focuses on finding and creating space on offense and then on defense when clearing the ball. SET UP The game is a small sized half field. Put players in 2 teams, and start as a 2 v 2. The team on offense must score on the goalie, while the defense has to clear the ball through certain areas of the field, in between cones. Start the game with a live 2 v 2 ground ball. Each team can score a point, ether on goalie or through clearing points. Flip teams after 1 minute PRINCIPLES & COACHING POINTS PROGRESSIONS Add players and make 3v3, 4v4, etc.. If no goalies, both uses cones for scoring.		On offense, find open space to create scoring opportunities On defense, find space to clear the ball and get points.
Scoop and Chase Small Sided Game - Link to Drill	Set Up	Focus Points
A fast paced, half field drill to get your players competing. Set Up Split the group into two teams, and put them in alternating lines at the midfield. On a Half field, we would have 4-6 lines of each color, being a full team drill. If working in smaller spaces like video, you can do 3-4 of each color. The drill starts with coach rolling a live ground ball into the play. The first player in each line will go try to win the ground ball. Which ever team wins the ball, gets the ball to the goalie and initiates a clear. If you don’t have a goalie, just have the players clear to a Coach up top. Once they successfully clear the ball, they will go back in on offense, and attack the goal. Coaches can manipulate the rules or constraints to make uneven situations or get players to explore other team concepts like picks, off ball play, etc.. Coaching Points and Principles Progressions Add extra players in on offense to creat uneven looks Number the lines up top, so only select players go into the drill (1,2,3,4 would be a 2v2 groundball play) Shot Clock – Once on offense, create a shot clock to speed up play		Ground balls – players should be working hard to win ground balls to start the drill Clearing – Team is spread out and finding open spaces Even & Uneven scenarios

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Donut Passing
Open the Gates Passing
2v2 With Gates
Scoop and Chase Small Sided Game

Please Note:The practice is designed to bring value across multiple age levels. You can use this as a foundation to build and develop your own practice. With that being said, we highly encourage you to adjust the drills based on your team’s age and skill levels. Lacrosse Drive should always be used as a starting point — you can make drills easier or harder by changing the constraints.

To make a drill easier, you might Increase the playing area, reduce the number of defenders or rules, add time or space to make decisions

To make a drill harder, you might: Shrink the field or add boundaries, add defenders or touch restrictions (e.g., “one-pass before shooting”), or Limit time or space to force faster decisions

Small adjustments to field size, player numbers, and rules can significantly change the challenge level while maintaining the same core learning goal.

Donut Passing

Set Up

Put players in groups of 4 or 5 and spread out on the field. Place one player in the middle, and have them start with the ball. They will find a perimeter teammate to pass to, and follow their pass. The new ball carrier goes into the middle, finds another perimeter player, gets a give and go, and then finds a new teammate.

Coaching Points & Principles

Passing – Have soft hands and make good passes
Communication – Players should be calling for the ball
Target – Off ball teammates would have stick up as targets

Block - On Air (no opponent)Decision Making Foundational Skills Intermediate Passing Positional / Tactical Team Passing U10 U12 U14 Women’s Lacrosse

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Open the Gates Passing

Set up

Create 4 gates using cones around the scoring are of the goal using cones. Put a player at each gate, and if you have additional players, they can go to the middle. It starts with a pass from a player carrying from a gate a to a new player, leaving they gate open. The ball must move in 1-2 passes to player at another gate. A player from the middle, can fill that space the ball carrier just left. Continue for 3-5 minutes, stopping when needed to talk about awareness and spacing

Coaching Points and Principles

Passing – get you head up and find a teammate to pass to
NO Gates OPEN! make sure gates are filled so you can receive a pass
Communicate
Awareness and Spacing

Progressions

Add in multiple balls for more experienced players
See how many passes they can make without dropping as a challenge

2v2 With Gates

SET UP

The game is a small sized half field. Put players in 2 teams, and start as a 2 v 2. The team on offense must score on the goalie, while the defense has to clear the ball through certain areas of the field, in between cones. Start the game with a live 2 v 2 ground ball. Each team can score a point, ether on goalie or through clearing points. Flip teams after 1 minute

PRINCIPLES & COACHING POINTS

On offense, find open space to create scoring opportunities
On defense, find space to clear the ball and get points.

PROGRESSIONS

Add players and make 3v3, 4v4, etc..
If no goalies, both uses cones for scoring.

Scoop and Chase Small Sided Game

Set Up

Split the group into two teams, and put them in alternating lines at the midfield. On a Half field, we would have 4-6 lines of each color, being a full team drill. If working in smaller spaces like video, you can do 3-4 of each color. The drill starts with coach rolling a live ground ball into the play. The first player in each line will go try to win the ground ball. Which ever team wins the ball, gets the ball to the goalie and initiates a clear. If you don’t have a goalie, just have the players clear to a Coach up top. Once they successfully clear the ball, they will go back in on offense, and attack the goal. Coaches can manipulate the rules or constraints to make uneven situations or get players to explore other team concepts like picks, off ball play, etc..

Coaching Points and Principles

Ground balls – players should be working hard to win ground balls to start the drill
Clearing – Team is spread out and finding open spaces
Even & Uneven scenarios

Progressions

Add extra players in on offense to creat uneven looks
Number the lines up top, so only select players go into the drill (1,2,3,4 would be a 2v2 groundball play)
Shot Clock – Once on offense, create a shot clock to speed up play