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This is my first interview with this great coach. Joe Amplo, the 2014 BIG EAST Conference Coach of the Year, was named the first head coach in Marquette men’s lacrosse history on Feb. 4, 2011 and guided the Golden Eagles to a 10-win campaign in just their third season of NCAA Division I competition in 2015. This podcast is awesome!
Under Amplo’s tutelage, Marquette has qualified for the semifinals of the BIG EAST tournament during each year as a league member and has increased its overall win total each season.
Amplo came to Marquette with 11 years of collegiate coaching experience, 10 of which came at his alma mater, Hofstra University. He served as associate head coach with the Pride for three years, and was the team’s defensive coordinator.
During his time at Hofstra, Amplo participated in 11 NCAA Championships, three as a student-athlete and eight as a coach, the most recent of which came in 2011. That year, Hofstra had the nation’s No. 1 defense, boasting the lowest goals against average in the country.
Amplo joined the Hofstra coaching staff as a graduate assistant in 1999 and remained with the University until 2001 when he took an assistant coaching position at the University of Pennsylvania. After one year at Penn, Amplo returned to Long Island where he remained through the 2011 season.
In his first stint with Hofstra, Amplo worked under then-head coach John Danowski, now the coach of three-time NCAA Champion Duke University.
Since his return to Hofstra in 2003, the Pride has posted a 76-49 record and advanced to five NCAA Championships.
As a student-athlete, he was an All-America East performer as a senior in 1999 when he started all 16 games and led the school to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championship. He played in 58 games in his career and notched 91 ground balls, 40 of which came during his senior season.
Amplo graduated from Hofstra in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in geography and earned a master’s degree in college student counseling. He and his wife, Jennifer, reside in Cedarburg, Wis. and have three daughters, Sophia, Charlotte, and Lily.
Coach Amplo is building local lacrosse through a travel team, www.goldeneaglelacrosse.com, and I also loved the recruiting camps at Marquette, just click here….
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For all of the Premium Members, this is a loaded podcast. Coach covers his skeleton practice plans including, Shock Coaching (No, not that but how to kick off a practice!) a huge emphasis on the fundamentals, a large focus on 4V4 as well as 5V5 which was really interesting. The dialog then goes to transition drills including one of my new favorites, “The Cone of Silence” drill attributed to Coach Danowski when at Hofstra. You are going to love this! We feature in the Preview and in the Article section. I recommend you listen to the free Preview, then check out the article with the drawings, just check here…
In the Audio Preview below for all Free Members, Listen to Coach Amplo, discuss this awesome lacrosse drill, “The Cone of Silence” I can’t wait to try it! I loved loved it!
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August 28th, 2015 at 9:35 am
I have seen Coach Amplo do this drill with the younger kids at a camp and I have added it to my 7/8th grade practice plan as the kids love it. I have even seen the high school kids in our program do this and there are some good match-ups created from this.
Even more than working in small space this has helped my smaller guys who are tentative to move around near the crease with and without the ball now are more comfortable looking for the pass or fighting for ground balls down there. Love this drill!