2/21/2021 - Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
10 Min	Movement (1-7 should be daily) 15-20 Yards 1) Marching with high knees (hands up) 2) Marching with high knees (arm swing) 3) High Knee Skips 4) Lateral High Knee Skips 5) Side Shuffle w/Overhead reach 6) Carioca 7) Back Pedal
10 Min	Challenge: GB Forever Day: Keep Running after ground ball until a double whistle
10 Min	Star Drill Rotate 5 guys at a time for the below drill
15 Min	5 Man Open Set Shooting AkA Motor Play 5 guys in an open set (without the x) Ball starts top left in the 5 position Pass to 4 position Pass to 3 position Dodge down the alley, low right guy mirrors up to the middle At the same time, the other side sets off ball pick Alley dodge guy passes to the mirror attack in the middle Then passes to the lower left attack for the shot Middle guy fills the alley dodge position Run to the line you pass or move to
15 Min	Talk About Ground Balls Its important to teach your players about how controlling ground balls can win games. The following points are good pieces of information to tell your kids. The team that wins more "GB's" is going to get extra possessions and extra chances to score. It is that simple. These extra possessions are also likely to be followed by "unsettled situations,"- a 4-on-3 Fast Break or 5-on-4 Slow Break of some kind. Transition goals are easier to score because there is almost always an unbalance of players Always scoop and and move the ball Let's work on calling Ball/Man and not Man/Ball Its important to make quick passes down field after winning a ground ball. The concept of "ground ball - pass - pass" gives us a high chance of scoring After a ground ball, two guys should look to be adjacent for a quick pass, and someone should be backside pipe Ground Ball Statistics The team with the most possessions has a greater chance of winning the game At the College Division 1 level each team gathers approx 30 ground balls per game If you win exactly 50% of the ground balls you have a 50% chance of winning the game The more ground balls you win the higher percentage your chance of winning the game are Most ground balls are won after faceoffs Let's say there are 60 ground balls per game. If our team wins 35 and they win 25 we now have a 60% chance of winning the game Teams with a -5 ground ball differential win only about 1/4 of their games If we win 10 more ground balls per game then our competition we have a 70% chance of winning the game http://www.laxpower.com/content/mauboussin/stats_analysis.php?page=2
10 Min	Drill: Baer Drill Low center of gravity drill Athletes are back to back box out for control over the ball Kick the ball 2 times before it is live When ball is in between your feet you kick the ball Competitive aspect to stay low Variant: Put the ball between their backs
10 Min	Clears Work on standard clear Double middies back Butter kids name
20 Min	Rondo Drill to Transition drill Sacred Heart calls this the Loyola drill Have goalie, 3 attack, 3 defense in goal At the midline, send in 3 v 2 or 3 v 3 middies, pass the ball around in the middle with 4 consecutive passes, hit the coach with the ball, coach starts the transition into 6 v 5 or 6 v 6
5 Min	Water
40 Min	Scrimmage 2026 team