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Lacrosse Coaching Checklist For Better Practices
A staff-ready checklist for turning practice goals into sharper teaching blocks.
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Lax Blog
Coaching essays, program-building notes, and lacrosse teaching ideas.
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Why I Want to Bring Coaches Together to Talk About Business (Without Leaving the Game)
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.
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Whatever Happened to the Mystique of Being a Lacrosse Player?
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.
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Teen Sports Can Tell You “You’re Done.”
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.
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Why I’m Starting a Mastermind to Help Lacrosse Coaches Build Sustainable Income
I don’t know how many of you know my background, but most of the financial stability I have today came from one thing: I built an online education company, and eventually I sold it. That’s where my money was made. And ye...
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Why Coaches Need Support Too: Opening a Conversation About Building Sustainable Income in Lacrosse
Lacrosse coaches often pour everything into their teams while struggling behind the scenes. Joe shares his experience building and selling an online education company, why many coaches face the same financial challenges, and his plans to start a mastermind to help coaches earn while they continue coaching.
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Why I’m Bringing Lacrosse Coaches Together to Learn Online Business
A message to lacrosse coaches about navigating online business, making money without leaving the game they love, and joining an upcoming free mastermind/webinar to help coaches thrive.
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The Day the System Failed Him: What Coaching Can’t Prepare You For
A coach tries to do everything right when a player reveals a troubled home life, only to see the school psychologist break the delicate trust that was holding the situation together. This reflection exposes the gap between policy and humanity — and the frustration of watching a young person retreat further into silence because the adults meant to help couldn’t meet him where he was.
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The Hypocrisy Problem in Lacrosse: Be Well-Rounded… But Don’t Fall Behind
College coaches love to preach the value of multi-sport athletes — the balance, the athleticism, the mental freshness. But when the season arrives, the kids who actually see the field are usually the ones who trained lacrosse like a full-time job. The message is clear, even if no one says it: balance is beautiful… until it costs wins.
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Coaching High School Lax Gave Me So Much. It Also Took Its Toll.
Coaching high school varsity lacrosse was one of the most treasured experiences of my life — intense, beautiful, addictive. But passion without borders is expensive. I loved the game to a fault, and while it shaped me, it also consumed me in ways I didn’t understand until years later. If I ever step back on that sideline, I’ll bring the same fire… but with clearer boundaries for my time, my energy, and my future.
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What Lacrosse Taught Me About Health
After decades in lacrosse as a player, coach, organizer, and leader, I realized the one person I never coached was myself. Now in my 50s and in the best health of my life, here are the lessons I wish I applied years ago, and why coaches need to take care of themselves with the same urgency they expect from their players.
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Growing the Game From Zero
After years spent building lacrosse in Colombia and across South America, I’ve learned what it really takes to develop the sport in places where equipment is scarce and the game is unknown. Here are the key lessons, and how any coach can grow lacrosse in a brand-new community.