Refining Hand Switch Skills: The Zipper Drill for Women's Lacrosse
Hand switching is a fundamental skill in lacrosse, allowing players to maintain possession and strengthen their offensive game. The "Zipper Drill" is an effective exercise that integrates cradling, directional changes, and dodges like the roll dodge and split dodge to develop this essential technique.
Pass, Pass, Cut and Shoot
This drill starts with a pass from the top to a wing player, who then feeds a cutter from the opposite wing for a quick catch-and-shoot. It reinforces ball movement, cutting timing, and finishing under pressure, making it valuable for developing offensive skills in women’s lacrosse.
Backdoor Feed & Finish
This drill develops quick ball movement, off-ball cutting, and finishing inside the 8-meter arc while emphasizing feeding from behind the cage and timing cuts effectively. It reinforces decision-making, spatial awareness, and scoring efficiency in a game-like setting.
Passing and Rotation Movement - Women's Lacrosse
The "Passing, Controlled Reception, and Rotation Movement" drill for women's lacrosse is designed to improve passing accuracy, ball reception, and team communication. Through continuous movement and rotation among players, this drill is perfect for both beginners and advanced players, as it can be adjusted to various skill levels
Figure Eight Drill
The "Figure Eight Drill" is a stick work exercise designed to enhance passing accuracy, mobility, and communication between players in women's lacrosse. This drill also helps athletes refine their technique for cutting and moving around a pick in tight spaces. Ideal for players looking to improve their decision-making and coordination on the field, the "Figure Eight Drill" is an essential practice for developing key skills that directly apply to game scenarios.
Passing on the Move
The "Control and Passing on the Move" drill for women's lacrosse improves pass reception and accuracy while players maintain constant movement. It helps familiarize with fast-paced passing situations and ball control in a dynamic team environment.
Triangle Passing Drill
The Triangle Passing Drill is a versatile lacrosse exercise that improves passing accuracy, stickwork, and off-ball movement. Perfect for women players of all skill levels, it promotes continuous motion, communication, and helps develop coordination and speed in passing. This drill works as an excellent warm-up and can be adjusted with variations as players advance. Whether you're a beginner or advanced, the Triangle Passing Drill is a key component of lacrosse training.
Quick Passes and Decision-Making Training
In women’s lacrosse, passing accuracy and quick decision-making are essential for success on the field. This drill combines warm-up, passing precision, and cognitive training to improve players’ reaction abilities. It also promotes communication and strategic thinking in dynamic situations.
Pick Pass and Shoot
A dynamic lacrosse drill emphasizing accurate passing, proper pick usage, and quick shooting to build game-like skills and enhance offensive coordination.
Inside Out 1v1 Lacrosse Drill: How to Execute and Its Benefits for Women’s Lacrosse
The "Inside Out 1v1" drill is designed to enhance individual skills in both offense and defense, focusing on one-on-one situations within the critical scoring area. This version is perfect for women’s lacrosse players, helping develop agility, ball control, and decision-making under pressure, in both offensive and defensive roles.
Passing and Cutting Drill
This drill focuses on improving offensive decision-making in women’s lacrosse by training players to pass to a teammate in the post and make sharp cuts to open space. It develops timing, teamwork, and off-ball movement, helping players create scoring or passing opportunities by reading defender positioning.
Slow Break: Improving Coordination and Passing
This shooting drill is excellent for teaching how to execute a slow break and look for players who might be open for shots from the point. This drill helps improve coordination, passing accuracy, and the ability to make quick decisions in game situations.
Meatloaf: A Passing Drill Focused on Angles
The Meatloaf Passing Drill focuses on passing with various angles to improve players’ spatial awareness, accuracy, and decision-making skills. By practicing with different angles, players develop versatility and confidence, better preparing them for dynamic game situations.
Rapid Response 4v3
Focused 4v3 exercise that enhances quick decision-making and teamwork in tight spaces. Perfect for practicing the skills needed to capitalize on man-up situations.
3v3 to 7v7
This Is a great drill to help them to keep their spacing in the 3v3 and look to work the 2-player game options. In the clear, focus on marking up quickly to eliminate the easy feed to the outlet player up top. The transition to 7v7 is a great opportunity for them to work on recognizing whether they are in a fast break versus slow break situation based on the defense. The defense will emphasize their footwork and containing the 1v1 to the outside lane as well as communicating about the doubles/slides and seeing both ball and player on the back side.
Back to Back 3v3
This is a fun drill that can be vary competitive and promote creativity. It is a great way to get away from the standard drills and break things up a little bit. Especially if space is limited.
Split 3v3
This a great drill to work well with the space given to them and work well as a unit. Stick skills will improve and creative will grow through a drill like this.
4 pass to a 5v4 break
This is a traditional 5v4 drill with a bit of a twist. A great way to sneak some extra stick work in and maintain the next players in line attention. Especially at the earlier levels when we run these drills all the players do not touch the ball and therefore do not work on the most fundamental skill of the sport. No waiting! Once the one group ends the new 4 up top begin passing and the expectation will be set that the players down low will be ready in time.
Receive the pass for a quick shot inside the 8 meter
This is a great drill to emphasize timing the feeds, getting open in the 8m with pressure on, defending inside the 8m, dodging, faking and shooting.
One Player Advantage inside the 8 meter
A great player up drill to teach quick ball movement while attackers learn to maintain their space inside the 8 meter. Defense is working on communication and slides.