5/24/2023 Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
8 Min	Rhythm passing drill Use 5 cones Setup the cones in a box with a middle cone. Off the middle cone we go 6-10 yards out Kids stand on the middle cone, cut towards a cone and receive the pass Catch on the outside, cradle, turn and make the pass
10 Min	Continuous 3v2 or 4v3 with Swaxlax
10 Min	Fast Break / Chaser Poles or Shorties Carrying the Ball Up
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
20 Min	Clears Terms: Boston (box side), Detroit (middle of field), Seattle (Far Side of Field) Stacked Clear: 3 defenders talk, who is going high. LSM and Defender go Boston, two middies goto Seattle. Pass to defender stretch field, opposite side has onside responsibility Butter: double or single, middies break out, attack opposite side crosses over mid line.
20 Min	Offensive Orange --> Hawk Romeo --> Hawk Tango Mikey Deuce and Deuce Princeton (invert)
30 Min	6 v 6 with Missions Coaches give up to 3 phases of missions to the players Offense example: Phase 1: Run tango, phase 2: two man game at x with timed cutting, phase 3: hawk Defense example: Phase 1: Amigo (3 man press), Phase 2: Long pole heavy on the ball, Phase 3: Double Early Goal is to throw different looks at both the offense and defense to see how they react and execute