3/17/2017 - Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
5 Min	Coaches Talk Dudeism: A Threat to Teamwork - Hogan Lacrosse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwHiD-6Hf-I Hardwork, Discipline, and Being a Good Teammate Happy to see the kids cheering eachother on and being supportive
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	Alley Defensive Drill Focus on lift checks, v-checks, push with bottom hand Setup 2 stations of 10 cones in a zig zag pattern Each cone placement should be about 10-15 yards apart One defensemen and one offense run the zig zag Offense works on dodges, defense works on footwork Defense shadows punches with the bottom hand and drop steps Players run through station 1, switch roles and then go back through station 2
5 Min	Water
15 Min	Bucket 1 on 1 Drill This drill teaches a defender how to properly push their man out of the shooting zone Defense drop their sticks and use stubs or no sticks Place a ball bucket on the field Have an offensive and defensive line Offense line starts with the ball about 5-10 yards from the bucket Defense must use their feet and push the offensive guy out of the zone Offense scores by getting the ball into the bucket
10 Min	Tap The Hat A good 1v1 or up to 3v3 drill to teach a kid how to approach a running offensive player. You put a cone in the middle of the box Put a line of kids at the top of the box Put a line behind the cage The person behind the cage throws the ball to the player at the top of the box The person who threw the ball goes and plays defense on the person he just threw the ball to, but first he must tap the hat (cone) You can make this 1v1 to start and move it to 3v3
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	Offensive Plays Whiteboard Red Swing it Inbounds - Triangle
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