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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.
Theme Description & Objected: Stick Fundamentals
This practice is designed to give players the essential building blocks of lacrosse in a fun, engaging, and confidence-building environment. The objective of this plan is to help early learners develop proper throwing, catching, cradling, and ground ball techniques while building coordination and comfort with the stick in their hands. Through simple, age-appropriate drills and games, players learn the fundamentals the right way, form positive habits, and develop a love for the sport that sets the foundation for future success.
Use this video and have your players stand as a group working on it. Add it movement, light running, and change of direction to add some difficulty.
Put players in groups of 5 (or 4 or 6 depending on your team size) on the sideline area. This drill is for ALL players so you can have 4-5 groups on the sideline spread out. Put a cone about 10 yards away, and another cone 10 yards away. Use a coach about 5 yards away, have them stand with a stick straight out with ball underneath. Player must run UNDER the stick, get a ground ball, carry around cone 10 yards out, and carry back to their line
Keep the kids in their groups of 5, and transition to trucks and trailers!
Put players in lines of 4 or 5, with the lead player with NO ball, they are the TRUCK. The 4 players behind them ar the Trailers and they all will be carrying a ball. The Truck will run in random patterns for 15-20 seconds, and the Trailers must run, and stay in line following the Truck! After the time is up, switch the roles until everyone has been a TRUCK!
Put the players in front of the goal. They will start with a ball in their stick, and in this drill we want to emphasize getting loaded ready to shoot. Players start with the lead shoulder point to the goal, getting their hands back in a. comfortable position (loaded). We over emphasize the windup, and tell players to take 2-3 big hops before shooting. After reps, we have them try it after 1 big hop to the goal
Finished this practice with a fun game that works on cradling and ground balls!
