How to choose a summer camp when money is tight? By Mark Hellenack As a camp and league director in Minnesota for over 20 years I have seen the camp options more than triple each year. I can only imagine the clutter a parent has to weave through in more established areas of the country […]
Rec Coaches and High School Coaches are always encouraging their kids to “get on the wall.” Yet rarely (for reasons not really known to modern man), incorporate the exercise into their practices, or measure participation or improvement. Yet when the kids we coach at youth and high school get to college they are usually held […]
Is Time Out – Too Late? Are you Coaching Special Situations in Time Outs? We play hard, we coach hard and we practice hard. We work on drills, transitions, progressions, unsettled situations and Man Up/Man Down every week. We try to get our teams to improve a little bit each practice and each game. Does […]
This spirited 40 minute interview is with Coach Berkman from Salisbury University. As you will hear, it is impossible to infused with the passion of Coach Berkman. Jim now has more victories than any coach in NCAA Men’s Lacrosse history (330W-35L). FREE!! 19 Consecutive NCAA Tournament Appearances 10 National Championship Appearances After meeting Coach Berkman […]
This is a one-page agreement to be signed by all players before each game. It is a great tool to begin to develop personal accountability with players. It is also a great way to reinforce two or three key scouting elements to your team before the game. Verbal messages have been great in the past […]
It is so easy to get caught up in the action of the game for all coaches. Depending on the size of your staff or their level of Lacrosse Acumen this one-page Game Document provides individual specific areas of the game such as where opposing players are on Rides and Clears as well as identifying […]
Ever scramble for an extra Roster for the Table, a Game Announcer in the Booth or requests for Rosters for Programs? This format is an extremely tool to save you time and anxiety in an excel format. You fill it in once and you are set to go, although it can be easily modified. Use […]
At the risk of sounding like a wimpy coach I am going to go the sport of Professional Basketball as a metaphor. Think that is a bad idea? Well at least I did not suggest Soccer… Professional Basketball coaches have a defined strategy for substitution patterns. I am pretty sure I said strategy not seat […]
Sometimes I as a Coach look back over the years and think to myself how could I have been that dumb? As recently as five years ago I used to think that daily written and distributed practice plans were for coaches that were new to lacrosse and just did not have my experience or knowledge […]
After recording a number of podcast interviews at the recent December 08 Intercollegiate Mens Lacrosse Association Conference in Baltimore I was taken by a rather unique difference in Coaches’ perspectives on the changing nature and values of the kids we coach today versus the kids we coached ten or even just five years ago. Coming […]
