Fill the Box Relay Game – Ground Ball Competition Drill
This relay-style ground ball drill builds hustle, teamwork, and conditioning while creating a fun and competitive practice environment.
4v2 Ground Ball Drill – Small Area Competition and Team Play
This fast-paced ground ball drill teaches players how to win possession, react quickly, and transition into a 2v2 game situation.
Sideline Ground Ball Drill – Control and Possession Under Pressure
This sideline ground ball drill helps players develop control, awareness, and the ability to secure possession without stepping out of bounds.
1v1 Ground Ball Game Drill for Lacrosse
This small-sided 1v1 ground ball game builds stick skills, defense, and offensive creativity while keeping players active and competitive.
3 Person Shuttle Passing
Improve stick skills, passing, and dodging with the 3-person shuttle drill. A fast-paced lacrosse warm-up designed to maximize reps and develop all-around fundamentals.
3 Player Ground Ball Elimination
This is a great ground ball drill to make sure everybody gets the reps. All too often the winner coops through the ball, rolls out and makes a pass but the others just get back in line without going through those fundamentals. This changes that.
Butt-to-Butt Ground Ball Drill
Most players lose ground balls before they even scoop. This drill teaches how to win position first, then secure and protect the ball.
2v2 +1: From Scramble to Advantage
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.
Messy Yard Girls Lacrosse Drill
“Messy Yard Lacrosse” is a fast and dynamic game designed to improve stick skills and ball control in a fun and competitive environment. Players, divided into two teams, must use their lacrosse sticks to pick up and transport balls to the opposite side of the field, preventing them from accumulating in their own “yard.” At the end of the time, the team with the fewest balls on their side wins. This activity promotes speed, teamwork, and decision-making under pressure, while players practice key lacrosse skills.
How to Teach Scooping and Stick Protection with a Simple Lacrosse Drill
Learn how to train three key ground ball skills—getting low, scooping through, and stick protection—in a fun and effective drill for young lacrosse players.
5v4 Ground ball Challenge
The 5v4 Groundball Challenge in lacrosse starts with a coach rolling a groundball for teams to compete over; if the offense recovers, they attack 5v4, and if the defense does, they must clear the ball. This drill enhances skills such as ball movement, off-ball spacing, defensive shifting, and team communication.
Scoop and Shoot: A Fun, Simple, and Effective Drill
The Scoop and Shoot drill is a simple yet effective way to keep girls engaged in lacrosse practice while reinforcing ground ball fundamentals, quick transitions, and shooting mechanics. Whether for warm-ups or skill development, this drill helps girls stay active, build confidence, and improve their stick skills right from the start.
Quick Reflexes and Speed Drills
Reaction speed and decision-making are essential in lacrosse. This drill, specifically designed for young players, blends agility, reflexes, and focus in a fun and educational activity. In addition to improving response time and competitiveness, it can incorporate learning elements to reinforce basic concepts dynamically and effectively.
5-Yard Scoop Drill to Improve Ground Ball Pickups
Ground ball pickups are an essential skill in women’s lacrosse, allowing players to maintain possession throughout the game. The 5-Yard Scoop Drill focuses on helping girls master this technique through repetitive movements on the field, enhancing their accuracy and speed in picking up the ball.
Ground Ball and Shooting Drill
In women’s lacrosse, mastering quick ground ball pickups with low, controlled body positioning and smooth cradling helps secure possession in tight spaces. Transitioning rapidly into a shot using compact wind-ups and precise placement enhances scoring under defensive pressure, turning 50/50 balls into effective scoring chances.
Steal the bacon - Girls Lacrosse game
This lacrosse drill is designed for young beginner girls to develop essential skills like ground balls and cradling in a fun, engaging way. It promotes teamwork, agility, and quick decision-making while keeping the game simple with minimal setup and easy-to-follow rules
Hungry Hippo GB’s
Discover a fun and energetic lacrosse drill that transforms practice into playtime! Perfect for young girls learning the game, this drill builds essential skills while keeping everyone engaged and excited.
Figure-Eight Relay: Girls’ Lacrosse Drill for Ground Balls, Cradling, and Ball Control
The figure-eight relay drill for girls’ lacrosse improves key skills like ground ball pickups, cradling, and ball control in a competitive team format. Variations such as adjusting cone distances, adding defenders, and incorporating shooting practice challenge players to sharpen their technique and decision-making under pressure.
2 on 1 Ground Balls
The 2-on-1 Groundballs Drill for Women's Lacrosse focuses on enhancing players' communication and efficiency in groundball recovery, utilizing an extra player strategically to gain an advantage. This drill encourages quick decision-making and effective passing, with variations that introduce greater complexity and mimic real-game defensive and offensive transitions.
3 Person Draw Game
There are few things more important in lacrosse than winning the 50/50 balls and knowing what to do it with after. This drill works on that skill and then some.
- Ground balls
- Shooting
- 8 meter
- Cradling
- game speed
- Beginner
- defense
- zone
- Conditioning
- cradling
- dodging techniques
- Fast breaks
- Warm ups
- Zone
- Youth Lacrosse
- fast breaks
- picks
- Double team
- Transtion
- Attack
- wall ball
- Offense
- Defense
- long passing
- footwork
- conditioning
- Dodging
- Unsettled
- Off Ball
- passing
- Draws
- 120s drill
- Stick Skills
- Goalie
- ball movement