12/9/2017 - Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
5 Min	Play Review Set and Play List General Black Trigger Thunder Lightning Echo Play 1 Iroquois Defense 4 5 Heavy
10 Min	Warmup Keep Away Build an area with cones about the size of the top of the box to the mid line Have 6 defenders and 5 offense Offense keeps the ball away without going out of bounds If ball turns over, subtract a defender and add an offense Variation: If ball touches ground, turnover
15 Min	Stations Offense and Defense Station 1: Defense and Goalie 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 Station 2: Trigger 2 Man shooting Attack down low, middies up high, on both sides of the field run trigger
5 Min	Water
10 Min	Stations - Face Off & Defense/Attack Skills Station 1: Faceoffs Tom takes the face off middies and works individual skills with them Station 2: Attack Dave gets attack running 1 redirecting to weak side chasing shots black and thunder Station 3: The rest of the team 4 Man Breakouts https://youtu.be/Nwsyjv7gKQE 1 Goalie and 4 players Goalie starts with the ball in net, 4 players circle the crease Coach blows the whistle, 4 players break out into a box Goalie passes to one, then the ball moves around the box to the guy at the opposite end GLE Next 4 guys rotate in
15 Min	Fast Breaks
5 Min	Water
15 Min	4 on 4 Escalation The goal of this drill is to give kids the opportunity to try individual 1 on 1, 2 man game, and escalate up to a 4 on 4 situation Put a goalie in the cage 4 lines of defenders and offensive players were placed just outside the box (8 total lines) Attack and Defense are behind the goal, midfielders are divided into offense and defense To start the goalie passes a ball to the back left attack, that attack and defender go 1 on 1 and attempts to score After the play is over, the goalie passes the ball to the back right attack and the first attack and defender are in play with the new attack and defender After the play is over the goalie passes to the top left midfielder and its a 3 on 3 After the play is over the goalie passes to the top right midfielder and its a 4 on 4 When all four lines go the next group begins Note: you can either rotate players or keep them in the lines they are in Note: make sure you have midfielders play both offense and defense
30 Min	Full Field Scrimmage or 6 on 6