5/1/2017 - Practice Plan

From Lacrosse Plan Drills
Time Drill
5 Min Active Stretching
10 Min Swing It - Passing Around the Goal

This drill simulates ball movement around the goal to get kids used to a quick passing offense.

  • Use 12 cones and setup, the cones will be placed in pairs
  • Place the first cone in the pair down in the area you want kids to run your set
  • The second cone should be 5 yards away heading towards the out of bounds
  • Setup in a 2-3-1 or a 3-2-1, use only 6 kids at a time, best to keep lines with each other and attack rotating when necessary.
  • Have kids work the ball around the goal, top middies popping out above the box line and adjacents popping out to help
  • If having a crease guy have him constantly facing the ball with stick up
  • Swing the ball around the goal, try not to skip pass
  • Catch, Cradle once or twice, make a quick and accurate pass


10 Min Buckeye Ground Ball
  • Drill teaches kids to scoop the ball on the run and make two quick passes (Ground Ball - Pass - Pass)
  • Teaches kids to get a proper angle as an adjacent for receiving a pass

Drill

  • Make 3 lines of kids with the outside lines being 10 yards apart
  • Put the balls in the middle with two goalies to the outside of the outside lines
  • Roll a ball out, have the middle guy scoop it up, pick a side to throw to, and then throw to the other guy
  • Last guy with the ball circles or question mark and then passes to a goalie and we repeat
  • Have some confusion in the middle and run continual
  • Variation: Add a chaser for the 2nd and 3rd pass


5 Min Water
10 Min 1 v 1's or 2 on 2's top and bottom
  • Work on the 2 man game
5 Min Water
10 Min Clearing Stations
  • Split kids into these 3 groups: Attack, Middie, Defense
  • Defense Group with 1 goalie
    • Have 3 defense cluster in front of the goal
    • Goalie with the ball yells clear, 2 defense go to the side at GLE, 1 goes top right
    • Goalie passes to one at GLE, that D passes to the other GLE D, and then passes to the D near the mid line
    • Rotate all Defense in
  • Midfield Group with 1 goalie location at the midline
    • Two midfield stand about 10 yards apart passing to each other
    • Goalie yells clear and they pass to the goalie
    • Both middies banana cut out and goalie passes to one. The other Middie takes off down field, banana cutting to receive a pass from the first Middie
  • Attack Group
    • 3 Attack take the field
    • 2 attack stay near the midline and 1 attack is halfway to goal from the midline
    • Coach passes the ball to one of the top attack, the attack closest to goal runs to X
    • The other high attack takes off down the field looking for a pass. Takes the pass and either shoots or passes to the guy at X
    • X attack goes around goal and looks for attack that made the pass driving to goal
    • Original attack breaks to goal looking for a pass and goes to X, attack adjust to 2 GLE and 1 at x


5 Min Water
20 Min Hippo Drill 8v8

http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=21371&page=1

  • Divide kids into teams
  • On field its 8v8 running a 2-3-2
  • You have 20 seconds to clear and 10 seconds to get it in the box
  • Start with a face-off and after each goal we do a face-off
  • Once a team gains possession a player can run with the ball only for 3-5 seconds. Then the player must pass the ball to a teammate.
  • Focus is on quick passes
  • If the player with the ball fails to pass in 3-5 seconds, the coach blows the whistle and possession changes


15 Min John Hopkins 3v2 Challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivm2d55bOY8

Great competition drill that teaches soft hands on offense and quick ball movement.

  • Have the kids split up with dark vs light
  • Have each team run for 5 minutes in offense and defense and keep track of who wins
  • Setup 5 cones around the goal, the cones are in a star pattern with the top of the star at the top of the goal about 10 yards away
  • Have the defense on the back 2 cones behind the net
  • Have the offense on the top 3 cones
  • Place a goalie in the net and use tennis balls
  • Coach throws a ball to an offensive player and it turns into a 3v2
  • Defense has to adjust to the man and talk to stop the ball from going in the net

The losing team has to do extra pushups or sprints