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Tryouts are 1 hour and 15 min. We will have two stations for evaluations.
| Time |
Drill
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| 5 Min |
Jersey Colors
- Put defense in dark with half middies
- Put offense in light with half middies
- Coaches talk about expectations of tryout
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| 5 Min |
Active Stretching
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| 5 Min |
Two Man Passing Down Field
- Make sure kids are catching and throwing with the stick forward
- Instruct kids that they need to do the drill properly
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| 15 Min |
Basics Stations
Split group into 2024 and 2025, they spend 7 min at each station.
Station 1: Scooping, Cradling, Dodging, Shot into bucket
- Setup Cones around the field
- Have a bunch of balls for kids to scoop through and then dodge cones
- At the end they try to make a shot into the bucket
- Repeat
Station 2: Shooting Drill
Half Naz Shooting Drill
- Create 3 lines of kids
- 1 Line outside of the top of the box
- 1 Line midway between goal and top of box
- 1 Line behind the goal on the same side of the field as the other 2 lines
- Balls should be at the top and side lines
- Top line, passes to the behind the goal line, that player runs behind x and passes to the guy that fed him
- Side Line, then passes to the attack coming around X and he quick stick shoots
- Players rotate from bottom to top
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| 5 Min |
Water
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| 20 Min |
Team Play Stations
Split group into 2024 and 2025, they spend 10 min at each station.
Station 1: 2 v 2 Escalation
- Form two lines, one near the midline, the other off to the side at GLE
- Split kids offense and defense at each of the lines
- Put a goalie in the cage
- Goalie picks up a ball, passes to a defender, who then passes to the offensive guy
- Players play 1 v 1, after the shot, goalie passes to the top line defender, and repeat with a 2 v 2
- Kids rotate as both offense and defense
Station 2: 4 v 3 dragons
Dragon 4v3
A good before game warmup
- Line the midfield at the top of the field in 3 lines
- 3 Middies, 1 drops in to play defense
- 2 Attack and 2 Def lines to the side of the goal
- Goalie in Net
- 15 seconds to score or drill over
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| 5 Min |
Water
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| 15 Min |
West Genny
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| 15 Min |
4 on 4
- Lineup players on each side against the boards
- 4 guys from each team, get onto the field
- Coach rolls a ball out, play the ground ball
- Each team gets a run at offense and defense
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