5/13/2021 - Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
5 Min	Movement (1-7 should be daily) 15-20 Yards 1) Marching with high knees (hands up) 2) Marching with high knees (arm swing) 3) High Knee Skips 4) Lateral High Knee Skips 5) Side Shuffle w/Overhead reach 6) Carioca 7) Back Pedal
10 Min	Challenge: Approaches Done Incorrectly are Counted Coaches will start with +5 on sprints Coaches count approaches not done correctly and subtracts from sprints
10 Min	Meatloaf Passing Drill http://www.uslacrosse.org/multimedia-center/blog/postid/822/meatloaf-passing-and-ground-ball-drill-video.aspx Divide players into six groups: two rows with three lines in each, facing each other Start in the bottom left corner, throwing the ball to top left. Players will catch, switch hands, and move the ball to the person in the middle, passing in the shape of a W
10 Min	6 v 5 keep away
5 Min	Duck Walk
10 Min	Notre Dame Asterisk Drill A drill to help proper defense footwork muscle memory Build a plus sign with cones, each part of the plus sign is a quadrant Line up the kids in one line and have kids go through each quadrant of the plus sign The kid runs to the middle of the plus sign and uses that as a basis for where his man is The kid then practices sliding, half slides and recover, show and no go Have each kid work in each quadrant for 10-20 seconds After the first kid is done with the first quadrant have him rotate to quadrant 2 and another kid go into quadrant 1 On the 4th quadrant roll a ground ball to the kid, have him scoop and return it to the coaches feet
15 Min	5 Cone & Crease Defensive Position Setup 6 Cones in a 2-3-1, 2-2-2 or other offensive sets, the crease cone can be a bucket to make it more visible Teach kids the following terms Ball - the guy covering the ball Adjacent - the 2 guys adjacent yell "got you left", "got you right" Far guys - the 2 guys two passes away from the guy with the ball move inside, head on a swivel Kids Setup facing their cone Coach points at a cone in sequence around the goal Show kids the proper positioning and then run through it full speed Kids need to adjust to cover their men while yelling what position number they are Short Choppy Steps when approaching the offensive guy
10 Min	Stacked Sliding Drill Teaching kids defensive slide sets is important but difficult to implement in a game due to the chaos. An important principle for defenders to learn is how to slide and recover. 4 offensive players in the four corners Put a goalie in cage and put 3 defenders stacked in a straight lin in the middle of from the crease Assign a number 1,2,3 to each of the defenders or call out their names The offense should move the ball, keep spacing, and shoot only off a pass across the crease or skip pass The defense will have to come out and slide to the ball and recover. The coach calls a number 1,2,3 and the designated player with that number is the player who must make the slide and recover As the ball is passed, a coach calls another different number and the assigned player slides aggressively to the ball. The first defender recovers to the inside hole, stick to the inside and in the passing lane, with head up looking for the next dangerous guy
10 Min	Stopwatch: 6 v 5 fast break in 20 seconds
10 Min	3 Man Defense Walkthrough
20 Min	6 v 6