5/23/2025

Practice at Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, MA from 5-7pm on Friday. Address is 800 Clapboardtree Street, Westwood, MA 02090

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
15 Min	Introductions Coaches Introductions Player Introductions - Name, where your from, your lax strength Practice Plan, Playbook overview Offense EMO 3-3 anything you all want to add?
10 Min	Zip and Skip Drill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32zM45vGUjU 5 cones positioned around the net, top near the box Player should pop-out or pop towards the ball to mimic getting open Move the ball around the net, catch on the outside, turn, switch hands and pass on the outside Move your feet to get ready to receive the ball Run to the line you pass to Quicker we move the ball the tougher the defense can recover Receive the pass, one or two craddles, then make accurate pass Variation: Use a long pole as a limbo GB, coach places ball, player drops their ball
10 Min	Stations Offense - Shooting (determine who our outside shooters are for EMO) Defense - Slide Package, communication, 6 cone drill practice PP and Amigo and communication, Zone Goalies - Warmup Drills, hand motion, 7 point shooting
10 Min	Rides Goalie Free - Simple Default Ride Zone Ride - 3-3 Defense Lock attack, until the ball is 5-10 yards past the midline on defensive side Attack near the midline, middies cross over, form the 3-3 zone If defender runs up, don't give them the outside, unless you can push him out of bounds
10 Min	Clears First look where ball came from, second is middies, third defenders 4-3 Clear Sub LSM and defenders banana cut 3 middies and defender at midline Maverick # run towards ball Butter # middie crosses over midline, attack runs center to get ball Stacked Clear Sub LSM and defenders banana cut Middies and defender form rectangle at midline Pass to defender, run it up, rectangle stretchs field, defense draws and dumps Far side has onsides responsiblity
10 Min	Offense Walkthrough Default Set: 2-2-2 (Pairs offense, mirror dodger, backside exchange) Quad Set: 4-2 (Dodge from X in a two man game, crease open, cut opposite side) Alley Set: 3-2-1 (Dodge shorty, crease pop, fade/follow, move the ball twice then dodge)
10 Min	Defensive Walkthrough PP defend inside and out, once ball gets into the Box we need to get into a tighter formation, don't worry about your guy at the Box line. When your guy gets the ball approach, run and pressure when he throws. We need to yell got you left and right to help us get into the right positions. Amigo - 3 man press
5 Min	Team Defense Play defense with no sticks against an offensive with sticks, communication is key PP Amigo
30 Min	6 v 6 with plays Defense: Amigo and PP Offense: Default, Quad, Alley Clears vs Rides
10 Min	EMO 3-3 with active crease Push/Pull model - ball coming towards pop-out, when its going away fill to the middle of field Crease follows the ball and tries to move the middle defender to create skip lanes Look for the skip lanes, move the ball quickly With the ball step in, and draw a guy, move the ball to the next player Catch the ball, ready to shoot Use fakes, no looks, for skip lanes If crease guy slides, have our guy follow behind with stick up this forces the bottom low defenders to pinch in and can look for a low GLE dump