3/20/2017 - Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
5 Min	Coaches Talk Hardwork, Discipline, and Being a Good Teammate What did we learn from playing Basketball that applies to lacrosse?
10 Min	Swing It - Passing Around the Goal This drill simulates ball movement around the goal to get kids used to a quick passing offense. Use 12 cones and setup, the cones will be placed in pairs Place the first cone in the pair down in the area you want kids to run your set The second cone should be 5 yards away heading towards the out of bounds Setup in a 2-3-1 or a 3-2-1, use only 6 kids at a time, best to keep lines with each other and attack rotating when necessary. Have kids work the ball around the goal, top middies popping out above the box line and adjacents popping out to help If having a crease guy have him constantly facing the ball with stick up Swing the ball around the goal, try not to skip pass Catch, Cradle once or twice, make a quick and accurate pass
10 Min
5 Min	Water
15 Min	Offensive Plays Whiteboard Red Swing it Inbounds - Triangle
10 Min
15 Min	3v1 - 3v2 Shooting https://www.hoganlax.com/3v1-3v2-shooting Drill is useful for teaching midfield to shoot under pressure Starts as a 3v1 and can be changed to 3v2 to make the midfield read the field Setup Have a goalie, 1 line of defense to the side at GLE, 1 line of attack in the back, 2 lines of midfield up at midline Balls start at x, the attack makes a cut around the crease with the defense in front of the goal in ready position The attack picks a middie to pass to, defense slides and applies pressure (the attack is out of the play and so is the other middie) its just 1v1 Next, change it to 3v2, its the same setup except 2 defense and when the attack makes a pass the midfield work together. The first middie to receive the pass must read the defense and either shoot or pass.
5 Min
10 Min	John Hopkins 3v2 Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivm2d55bOY8 Great competition drill that teaches soft hands on offense and quick ball movement. Have the kids split up with dark vs light Have each team run for 5 minutes in offense and defense and keep track of who wins Setup 5 cones around the goal, the cones are in a star pattern with the top of the star at the top of the goal about 10 yards away Have the defense on the back 2 cones behind the net Have the offense on the top 3 cones Place a goalie in the net and use tennis balls Coach throws a ball to an offensive player and it turns into a 3v2 Defense has to adjust to the man and talk to stop the ball from going in the net The losing team has to do extra pushups or sprints

Notre Dame Gauntlet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds6zEUgSgn4

This drill is useful for a guy getting a ground ball and dodging to get to open space. Teaches a kid how to read his defender to make the proper dodge.

• Divide kids into groups of 4
• Have them all line up with about 3 yards in between
• The first guy in line is to be about 5 yards away and receives a ground ball to from the 2nd guy in line
• The first guy scoops it up and zig zags through the remaining 3 defenders
• The defenders throw wrap, poke, lift, or high checks but only mimic checks
• Offensive guy must read the defender and make a dodge
• The 2nd guy inline is now the first he pops out and receives a pass from the guy who just had the ball
• When the new 1st guy has the ball he passes it to the new 2nd guy, and the 2nd guy rolls the new 1st guy the ball and the drill starts over

Swing It - Passing Around the Goal

This drill simulates ball movement around the goal to get kids used to a quick passing offense.

• Use 12 cones and setup, the cones will be placed in pairs
• Place the first cone in the pair down in the area you want kids to run your set
• The second cone should be 5 yards away heading towards the out of bounds
• Setup in a 2-3-1 or a 3-2-1, use only 6 kids at a time, best to keep lines with each other and attack rotating when necessary.
• Have kids work the ball around the goal, top middies popping out above the box line and adjacents popping out to help
• If having a crease guy have him constantly facing the ball with stick up
• Swing the ball around the goal, try not to skip pass
• Catch, Cradle once or twice, make a quick and accurate pass

Horsey Drill

https://www.hoganlax.com/horsey-drill1

• Take your attack and a few middies that want to play attack
• Make two lines at the end line behind the goal
• First line breaks right, turns at GLE, switches hands and passes back to the first guy in the 2nd line, who is now standing center goal.
• The 2nd guy, catches with the stick forward and does the same thing on the opposite side
• Make sure on the turn, the person dodges first then changes hands.
• If you are going left, you catch left hand, if going right you catch with the right hand
• Variation: Make 3 lines, 1 at x, 2 at either side of GLE. X guy starts with the ball drives to one side, that side GLE guy clears through, and the far side GLE gets to X where its redirected back to the topside guy clearing through.