5/4/2021 - Practice Plan

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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: Play to the whistle


10 Min V Passing top and bottom
  • Pull pass, question mark, roll and go
10 Min North/South East/West Passing and Shooting
  • Variation: A cutter - Guy that starts the pass, cuts on the 3rd guy and shoots
  • Variation: Blow a whistle when its time to go
10 Min No Second Chances Ground Balls

Often times a player gets a first chance at a ground ball while unchallenged, but they often fail to field it cleanly and that is when the crowd joins in.

  • Partner up with one ball, a chaser and receiver
  • Coach rolls out the ball, receiver runs for it, chaser chases after 1 second
  • The receiver does not look back, he runs straight for the ball
  • Chaser attempts to poke or lift check the receiver when he is scooping
  • The receiver has to adjust his body to protect the back hand
  • The receiver runs to daylight and passes back to coach
  • If the chaser successfully disrupts the scoop he should box out and flick the ball to open space and then get the ground ball



15 Min Two Man pick and roll shooting at top and bottom
  • "Pass & Pick" concept
  • Teach proper pick technique and mention types (standard, slip, back, razor)
    • Where your butt is aimed is the direction picker must take
    • Pick from the inside out
  • 2v1 from the top and bottom
    • (1) Dodger → (Static) Defender/Coach → (2) Picker/Roller
    • Defender takes away one option. Make a decision!!!
    • Go to the goal
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 Rondo Drill to transition drill
  • Sacred Heart calls this the Loyola drill
  • Have goalie, 3 attack, 3 defense in goal
  • At the midline, send in 3 v 2 or 3 v 3 middies, pass the ball around in the middle with x consecutive passes, hit the coach with the ball, coach starts the transition into 6 v 5 or 6 v 6
20 Min 6 v 6 or West Genny
10 Min Sled pulls and jogging