5/1/2017 - Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
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	Buckeye Ground Ball Drill teaches kids to scoop the ball on the run and make two quick passes (Ground Ball - Pass - Pass) Teaches kids to get a proper angle as an adjacent for receiving a pass Drill Make 3 lines of kids with the outside lines being 10 yards apart Put the balls in the middle with two goalies to the outside of the outside lines Roll a ball out, have the middle guy scoop it up, pick a side to throw to, and then throw to the other guy Last guy with the ball circles or question mark and then passes to a goalie and we repeat Have some confusion in the middle and run continual Variation: Add a chaser for the 2nd and 3rd pass
5 Min	Water
10 Min	1 v 1's or 2 on 2's top and bottom Work on the 2 man game
5 Min	Water
10 Min	Clearing Stations Split kids into these 3 groups: Attack, Middie, Defense Defense Group with 1 goalie Have 3 defense cluster in front of the goal Goalie with the ball yells clear, 2 defense go to the side at GLE, 1 goes top right Goalie passes to one at GLE, that D passes to the other GLE D, and then passes to the D near the mid line Rotate all Defense in Midfield Group with 1 goalie location at the midline Two midfield stand about 10 yards apart passing to each other Goalie yells clear and they pass to the goalie Both middies banana cut out and goalie passes to one. The other Middie takes off down field, banana cutting to receive a pass from the first Middie Attack Group 3 Attack take the field 2 attack stay near the midline and 1 attack is halfway to goal from the midline Coach passes the ball to one of the top attack, the attack closest to goal runs to X The other high attack takes off down the field looking for a pass. Takes the pass and either shoots or passes to the guy at X X attack goes around goal and looks for attack that made the pass driving to goal Original attack breaks to goal looking for a pass and goes to X, attack adjust to 2 GLE and 1 at x
5 Min	Water
20 Min	Hippo Drill 8v8 http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=21371&page=1 Divide kids into teams On field its 8v8 running a 2-3-2 You have 20 seconds to clear and 10 seconds to get it in the box Start with a face-off and after each goal we do a face-off Once a team gains possession a player can run with the ball only for 3-5 seconds. Then the player must pass the ball to a teammate. Focus is on quick passes If the player with the ball fails to pass in 3-5 seconds, the coach blows the whistle and possession changes
15 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