3/13/2018 - Practice Plan

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Time Drill
5 Min Active Stretching
5 Min Quick talk with the travel kids
  • Job is to make the rec kids better
  • We have rec and travel pre-season games, focus for rec games is to grow the new players
  • Pass the ball to the new kids, encourage them, be positive


rec kids to work on craddling and sheathing the sword.

10 Min Line Drills
10 Min 2 v 1 GB
  • Teaching point is to call out "Ball/Man"
  • Make 3 lines of kids
  • The outside two lines are on the same team
  • Coach rolls out a ball
  • The two man team does Ball/Man and both must touch the ball
  • Box Out, no slapping sticks
  • Variation: Put a goalie in cage, and add an another defender and offensive guy, and turn it into a 3 on 2


5 Min Water
15 Min Stations - face off, middies/attack

Station 1: Faceoff Practice

  • Pops
  • Practice clamp and rake
  • Practice Clamp and Pop
  • Foot positioning, knee down and standing
  • Launching forward and turning

Station 2: middies/attack shooting

4 Point Shooting Drill

4 Point Shooting Drill Setup
  • This drill focuses on getting the ball in and out of your stick as quickly as possible
  • Setup 4 cones in a semi-circle around the cage. You take 3 shots around the perimeter.
    • Shot 1: Backside Shot - Simple look at the back pipe (on the crease quick ball fake) - Run towards the cone
    • Shot 2: Outside Shot from 7/8 yards - Run around the cone
    • Shot 3: Outside shot from 12/13 yards - Run around the cone
    • Shot 4: Cut Down the Middle to work on ball Fake
  • Feed from Position 5 - Each player gets 4 shots



15 Min Star Recovery Drill
Star Recovery Drill
  • Interior cones mark out the “heart,” or most dangerous area of the field.
  • Practice covering inside out and back again
  • on-ball defenders have one responsibility: stop the ball carrier.
  • Off-ball defenders need to worry about protecting the inside, keeping head on a swivel with assigned attacker, and be ready to cover open players should you need to slide
  • Setup two sets of cones like in the diagram
  • Kids start at the X's and approach and recover at each cone
  • Exterior cones represent an offensive player preparing to dodge.
  • Defender slides to cones on an angle, not a direct line.
  • Stick should be up field when breaking down on the exterior cones.
  • Stick should be to the inside (in passing lanes) at interior cones.
  • Variation: Add offensive guys on the outside and one in the crease, pass the ball around, have the whole team defense approach and recover


5 Min Water
10 Min Clears & Rides
15 Min 10 v 10 full field
  • Have purple and silver play against each other