Guest Article!! Lax Rubrics – A Helpful Tool for Lax Coaches, Players, and Parents By Ed McCarthy, Boston Cannons Volunteer Assistant About twenty years ago, frustrated by my inability to provide clear feedback to my high school English students – and frustrated by my vague understanding of the traits of good writing — I discovered […]
Add a Little Magic to 3V2.. Andy Shay, Yale In our recent podcast with one of my all time favorites, Coach Andy Shay from Yale, he added a little Magic to a 3V2 lacrosse drill we have loved for years! Going back to his time with another great coach, Dan Sheehan, LeMoyne, he offered a […]
Gettysburg Builds ‘Heart’ w Lacrosse Drills I always enjoy our conversations with this great coach. With more experience than most two or three coaches combined, yet he is always studying and searching for way to modify his practices. In this case, I believe coach is really implementing scenarios directly at the end of practice to […]
Cabrini 3V3 Build Up, Like You Have Never Seen OK — I have spent hundreds of hours listening to coaches and writing up lacrosse drills. But I had never seen this style of lacrosse drill – what they call “3V3 Build Up” from a great coach, Steve Colfer at Cabrini. Coach has a somewhat unique […]
Scrimmage with a Theme!! That’s what they do at Denver! OK he is amazing. Even after well over 100 hours of interviews with the best college lacrosse coaches, I am am amazed by Coach Bill Tierney. The recent podcast was so filled with new ideas I wanted to share that I had a hard time […]
Washington College, Non-Traditional Fast Breaks My head is still kind of spinning following my first podcast with Head Coach Jeff Shirk, Washington College. Coming off of a great 2014 season, a trip to the DIII Semi’s, 18 wins, and 50 shots a game, I learned a lot, and got me thinking even more… As we […]
Queens 3V2 Back to 2V1 Coach Jim Fritz In my recent podcast with Head Coach Jim Fritz from Queens, he shared a really unique drill with a twist your players will love!! At Queens they have expanded on what coach shared was a lacrosse drill they ‘borrowed’ from Roanoke, where they called it, Mason/Dixon, now […]
Great 3V2 from York College Head Coach Brandon Childs First, in my recent interview with Head Coach Brandon Childs (CAC 2014 Coach of the Year) I was impressed with this young coach, especially the unique twists he puts into his practice plans. Next, perhaps the most frequent comment I get on my site is the […]
Great Clearing Drills Like They do it at Limestone Coach JB Clarke OK, so every once in a while we get a great lacrosse drill from a great lacrosse coach that just absolutely blows my mind! I have over 150 published articles on lacrosse drills, five eBooks on lacrosse drills and this lacrosse drill is […]
The Retriever Lacrosse Drill Like They Run it at Johns Hopkins Coach Pietramala We are always looking for new lacrosse drills they prepare and put our players in a position to be successful. But there are some common denominators especially in the challenges we face as we prepare meaningful practice plans. As you know by […]