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Women's lacrosse drills for footwork, pressure, ball movement, and team play.
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.
The mirror shooting drill is an excellent tool for teaching players to time off-ball movements and get open to receive passes. This drill offers several important benefits for lacrosse players, such as improving passing and shooting accuracy, developing quick decision-making, promoting coordination and teamwork, simulating game situations under pressure, enhancing off-ball movement, and increasing speed and agility.
This drill helps girls refine their ability to execute a quick hitch move, followed by a sharp “C” cut, and finish with a precise shot on goal. It emphasizes speed, accuracy, and game-like decision-making to improve shooting under pressure for female players.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is a great drill to gain control of the draws and convert the draw control wins into a quick goal.
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.
