10/16/2016 - Practice Plan

From Lacrosse Plan Drills

Goals for practice are clears and rides and offense/defense schemes

1:50 - 2:00 Stretch & Talk About Penalty Prevention
2:00 - 2:15 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


2:15 - 2:30 2 Man Stutter Out Step Down
  • 4 lines, grouped into sets of 2
  • Lines are along the alley's, with outside man running towards a cone about 20 feet from goal
  • 1st guy stutter steps, back pedals out
  • Throws the ball to the second man coming down the lane, who receives the ball and step down shoots


2:30 - 2:35 Water
2:35 - 2:45 Clears and Rides
  • Safety Middie
  • Clear to the side
2:45 - 3:00 Field Substitutions
  • Get the ball at x to sub off
  • Only sub on offense
  • LSM
  • Middie switch with attack if we have an LSM
3:00 - 3:05 Water
3:05 - 3:25 Man Up / Man Down

Man Up Offense

  • Ball Movement
  • Motion Offense, Cut and Return
  • Crease Man alot of movement

Man Down Defense

  • 6 on 5 - Box and 1
  • 6 on 4 - Box
  • Make an Add One Line at the sideline to add a player
3:25 - 3:30 Water
3:30 - 4:00 Stations Walkthroughs Offense and Defense

Two stations with parents on the field to help us act as players.

  • Break the attack and defense into two separate groups.
  • Add a middie line to each group and rotate them.

Station 1: Defense

  • Have the parents setup in different offenses (2-3-1, 3-2-1, 1-4-1, 2-2-2)
  • Defense must adjust to cover the right man, work on slides in the new formations

Station 2: Offense

  • Parents on the field acting as defense
  • Offense sets up in our set and moves the ball around. Work on cutting and returning, proper motion offense movement