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A warm-up that actually wakes players up. This mirror drill builds reaction, footwork, and focus, all while keeping things fun and competitive.
Great offenses don’t force passes, they create them. This drill teaches how to separate, read pressure, and zip the ball through X at the right moment.
If your stick isn’t protected, nothing else matters. This drill teaches players how to stay tight, turn under pressure, and finish with control.
Most players lose ground balls before they even scoop. This drill teaches how to win position first, then secure and protect the ball.
Most defenders struggle with stick checks because they move their whole body. These simple progressions teach how to separate the hands from the body, and that changes everything.
If you’re building team defense in women’s lacrosse, start with the most dangerous moment: a dodge into the 8-meter. This drill teaches how to stop it, together.
This 2v2 +1 drill teaches players how to win ground balls and instantly turn them into a numbers advantage. It’s fast, chaotic, and exactly what shows up in games.
A 2v2 ground ball turns into a 3v2 the moment possession is secured. This drill sharpens competitive toughness, transition awareness, and fast-break decision-making in one continuous rep.
Before you install slide packages, rotations, or complex communication calls, your players must master this one situation: an attackman beating his man from X and getting to the 5 & 5. The timing and angle of the first slide — and the discipline of the second slide — are the foundation everything else is built on.
About once a week—or every couple of weeks—I meet with a coach from the lacrosse community who’s trying to get their business off the ground. Before LaxPlaybook, I built and sold an online education company, but the road there wasn’t easy. I spent years broke, consumed by coaching, and unable to focus on building financial stability. That experience—and the many coaches I see facing the same struggle today—is why I want to start a mastermind focused on helping coaches make money while continuing to coach the sport they love.
When I played lacrosse in the early 90s, there was a certain mystique to the sport that’s hard to describe but impossible to forget. From beat-up boathouse jackets to frayed shooting strings and muddy cleats, being a lacrosse player felt like belonging to something slightly off, slightly rough, and completely magical. I’m not sure that identity still exists today, but I do know it mattered—and I can’t help but wonder if it’s something worth bringing back for the next generation.
In the U.S., the teenage years are often when team sports shift from development to selection. Kids who love the game can lose access not because they quit, but because the system narrows. This isn’t about effort or character — it’s about how youth sports are structured during adolescence.
