1/24/2021 - GLG Goalie Practice Plan

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Time Drill
5 Min Active Stretching
  • Bring tennis ball bag
  • Bring jump rope
  • Bring tennis racquet
10 Min Passing and Catching
  • Where to position hands when throwing and catching
  • Pass and take a step back
10 Min Stance in goal aka ready position
  • Back is straight, arms about shoulder width apart
  • stick off the body, arms at 90 degree angle, so you have room to explode
  • Small goalies start lower to spring up
10 Min Walk the Line Drill
  • Have players line up and be synchronized, walk a line with air saving, top right, top left, bottom right, bottom left
  • Make sure second foot moves
10 Min Two Stations


Walk the line weighted stick

  • Walk the line with a weighted stick

Goalie: 3 Cone Shuffle

  • Setup 3 cones, with the outer cones 6 feet apart (mimics a goal width)
  • Without a stick, Start on center cone, in ready position, top thumb at eyeball level
  • Footwork to the right, touch cone, shuffle to the left touch far cone
  • get back to center and expect a shot and react to a ball being passed


10 Min Ball Tracking
  • Use the swaxlax ball
  • Have goalie track in the stick
  • Track the ball into their pocket, tell me the number on the ball within seconds
10 Min Tennis Racquet Reaction
  • Player drops stick, another player will toss a ball to coach with a tennis racquet
  • Coach volley the ball at the goalie who makes the save
  • Goalie drives the top hand to the ball

If 3 goalies, one jump ropes

5 Min Water
10 Min In the goal low footwork cones and numbers
  • Place 3 colored cones in an arc
  • Place 3 swaxlax numbered balls on top of cones
  • Have goalies move to save on the color or number
5 Min Water
10 Min Two Goalies - toss and switch
  • Two goalies toss and balls to each other on opposite hands

Two goalies - Swing arms toss ball

  • One goalie has two balls, swings their arms, and randomly releases to toss it to another

Two goalies - Drop balls

  • One goalie with two balls, they randomly drop one and the other goalie has to catch it
10 Min Step over 16 foot rope
  • Goalies have to step over to get to the far pipe and cover the post
10 Min Hug pipe and drop step
  • When a girl comes around the crease, step out and go stick to stick, back pedal to recover ground, or girl will shoot around
10 Min 4 cones and balls, no stick pick up balls
10 Min Weighted Goalie Stick
  • Save tennis balls, make sure they are stepping and getting body behind shot
5 Min Water
10 Min 6 point shooting