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Goalie Hand-Eye Coordination Drill Using a Baseball Glove
This lacrosse goalie drill uses a baseball glove to sharpen hand-eye coordination, improving reaction time and save precision.
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Building Confidence with the Stick: The Stationary Split Dodge Drill
This simple stationary split dodge drill helps players improve control, confidence, and comfort with the lacrosse stick. It’s easy to do anywhere—on the field, in your backyard, or at home—and builds muscle memory to move smoothly without overthinking.
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Clearing Mistakes Youth Lacrosse Teams Make, and How to Fix Them
Common mistakes youth lacrosse players make during clearing, such as rushing passes, poor spacing, and lack of communication, which often lead to turnovers. By addressing these errors with structured strategies and proper coaching, teams can improve their clearing game and minimize costly mistakes.
Off-Ball Picks to Stress Defensive Slides
This offensive concept uses synchronized off-ball picks to create chaos for the defense and open up multiple scoring options. By initiating from X and layering picks at the crease and up top, it forces defenders into tough sliding decisions. Perfect for teams that want to move beyond basic dodges and into coordinated team offense.
Midfield Mastery: On-Sides / Off-Sides Transition Drill
This drill is a fun, high-energy way to teach players how to use the midfield line strategically during clears and rides. It reinforces offside awareness while helping players understand how to manipulate field positioning to their advantagein transition.
Backer Zone Defense
The backer zone is a great way to let your long sticks pressure the ball while always having the support of a floating defender behind them.
Full Field Fast Breaks with a Trailer
Boost your team’s fast-break skills with this high-intensity lacrosse drill! Players sharpen decision-making and communication under pressure as a trailing midfielder forces quick, game-like transitions. The added time crunch keeps everyone on their toes, driving faster offensive plays and defensive coordination.
Crease Overload Deception Man Up Play
This man-up lacrosse play starts in a 1-4-1 formation and transitions into a 4-2 to confuse the defense. After passing the ball to the player behind the goal (at ‘X’), the crease attackman moves below the Goal Line Extended (GLE), overloading one side of the field. This shift forces the defense into tough decisions, allowing wing attackmen to sneak into the soft spot on the crease for high-percentage scoring opportunities.
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Gilman The Ball With a Purpose
What are you hoping for when you launch the ball down the field? It is not the ideal way to clear the ball, but we all have to play to our strength on the lacrosse field. Therefore if for whatever reason you need to chuck it down the field, have a plan.
C-Cut Quick Release Drill
This drill enhances players’ ability to make sharp cuts and quickly release accurate shots under game-like conditions. It emphasizes speed, precision, and instinctive decision-making, helping players improve their shooting effectiveness under pressure.
Rotating Motion Box Offense with 2 Men in the Crease
The 1-4-1 Rotating Motion Box offensive scheme is great for dodgers as it creates space. It makes it very easy to bring the top two defenders into the crease which creates good matchups on the perimeter. Keep in mind that strong takeaway defenders HATE being trapped on the crease as they want to play the ball to be more proactive in creating a turnover. These aggressive and now pent up strong defensemen have a tendency to slide very early leaving the crease men open.
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Top Three Tips to Become an Effective Dodger
In this lesson, Columbia University coaches Katie Crest Herby and Liz Kman Jackson share three essential tips to help lacrosse players become more effective at dodging