Brine National Team Tryouts 2017 - 2024/2023
From Lacrosse Plan Drills
The following Notes were taken while observing the Brine National Lacrosse Tryouts for the North Carolina 2024/2023 Team.
Date: 1/22/2017
Location: Duke Practice Fields
Tryout Setup
- Tryout was conducted at the Duke Lacrosse Turf practice fields
- There were 2 full fields
- Boys high school occuiped 1 full field. The other field was was shared between a girls tryout and the boys 2024/2023
- A registration booth was setup near the fields, which worked well
Tryout for Boys 2024/2023
- 5 coaches, 2 with clipboards
- There were 50-65 kids trying out for 23 roster spots
- Brief introduction by the coaches
Tryout Drills
- Boys were broken up into 5 groups
- Line Drills
- Righty outside with a shallow arc
- Lefty outside with a shallow arc
- Ground balls righty
- Ground balls lefty
- Rightly inside quick sticks
- Lefty inside quick sticks
- 1 on 1's top & bottom
- Goalies passed the ball to the defender, the defender passed the ball to the offensive player
- Middies not in drill stood in a line near the dividing line heading towards the goal, this forced the midfield to drive to one side (left or right)
- Attack were able to pick a side at X to perform dodges, but had to catch the ball from the defender at an arc, so as to not quickly burn their defender (who was passing them the ball)
- 4 on 4 Escalation
- 4 lines of defenders and offensive players were placed just outside the box
- Attack and Defense were behind the goal, midfielders were divided into offense and defense
- The goalie passed a ball to the back left attack, where they went 1 on 1
- After each attempt at goal, another 2 players (offense and defense) entered the drill and the play repeated until a 4 on 4
- 6 on 6 Escalation
- Same drill as above, but with 6 lines of defenders and offense, starting from a 1 on 1 to 6 on 6 (Note: This could have been an N-1 play, to mimic man down situations)
- When the girls tryout ended the boys were able to finish with a full field scrimmage
- Note: Goalies were rotated at regular intervals
Positive Observations
- Check in went smooth, coach checking in was very informative and friendly
- Plenty of space for parents and players to hangout and warmup
- Coaches informed the kids that they would hear about making it within a week, good communication and follow thru as they heard within a couple of days
- Escalation drills were good, it showed how attack could handle a 1v1 and the two man game, then involving the midfield to form a more complete picture
Negative Observations
- Not enough coaches doing evaluations, the kid to coach ratio was way too high
- Not enough coaches working to make sure kids were doing the drills correctly, for example some of the groups of line drills received very few coach interactions
- There should have been two coaches running and getting the extra balls off the field during the escalation drills
- Would recommend a drill coach and evaluator be paired up together
- If 5 line drills then there should be 10 coaches (1 person to run the drill, the other to evaluate). The evaluators should have rotated to each line drill station
- Many of the kids only got 4/5 touches on the ball during the game situation drills.
- Coaches took approx 10 min explaining how to properly set picks, this was an elite player tryout, instruction should be very minimal.
- No consideration was done for noting a kids strong hand or weak hand. Lefties or kids with no weak hand should have been evaluated on their own
- Too many kids to for a half field evaluation