• Learn how to hold a lacrosse stick properly while throwing, catching, shooting and playing defense.
• Know what equipment must be worn and how to put it on, take care of it, carry it etc.
• Understand basic terminology:
  • Positions – Goalie, Defense, Midfield, Attack
  • Boundaries – endline, sideline, restraining box, midfield line, substitution box.
  • Horn! (Let them know they can sub when they hear this.)
  • Ball! Release! For GB’s
  • Here’s your help!

• Understand basic rules:
  • 4 total players back on defensive end, 3 back on offensive end, 3 midfielders.
  • Cannot push from behind.
  • What is a slash?
  • Cannot touch ball with hand.
  • When ball is shot, chase it out!
  • Goalie has 4 seconds to get rid of the ball.
  • Offensive players cannot run into crease.
  • Moving picks.
• Understand proper positioning on offense and defense
• Spacing on the field and basic on ball body position.
• Understand how to pick up a GB properly – both butts low!!

 
The U-11 program will enter with all of the above knowledge and then be taught the following:
 

• Stick work for both hands – line drills, over the shoulders.
• Understand substitution on the fly.
• Defense
  • Proper  1v1 defense – footwork, angles, checks (pokes / lifts / drive on hips)
  • Proper transition defense – learn fast break formation (triangle) and rotation.
  • Proper 6v6 defense – make contact when man has the ball, when man does not have ball, get closer to goal as ball gets closer to goal.
  • Terminology – Hot, Fire.
  • Learn man down defense (House)
• Offense
• Dodges – roll dodge, face dodge, split dodge.
• Understand where we want to shoot from on the field.
• Proper transition offense – learn fast break formation (L) and the looks.
• Off ball cutting.
• 2-3-1 Offensive formation – what positions belong where.
• Learn Man up formation (3-3)
• Attackmen drop to restraining box and midfielder’s drop to midfield line on rides.

The U-13 program will enter with all of the above knowledge and then be taught the following:
 

• Defense
  • Slide Package – slide from crease.
  • Have help man.
  • Double team once we slide – left foot, right foot.
• Offense
• 2-3-1
• Value – everyone gets a touch.
• Midfield dodge, adjacent attack cut through, shot or bang ball to X, push opposite side.

• Special Teams (Ride)
  • Have one attack pressure ball, all others drop to restraining box and play anyone in front of them.
  • Have all middies drop to midfield line and not let anyone behind them.
• Special Teams (Clear)
• Have two defenders on wings, one middie low, one defender at midfield with other middies on either sideline. Get ball to the short stick!!

• Special Teams (Man Up)
  • 3-3, step in draw a man and pass.
• Special Teams (Man Down)
• House – know spots and perimeter. How to play cutters.

The U-15 program will enter with all of the above knowledge and then be taught the following:
 

• Defense
  • Understand slide and recovery.
  • Lock off defense (51)
  • Zone Defense (House with a crease)
  • Run a Long Stick Midfielder.
• Offense
• Understand once we push the backside, what our looks are – shoot, hit stretching attackmen, hit forward adjacent middie.
• Understand our looks on (attack dodge.) – shot, forward adjacent midfield, curlback throw to our attackmen rotating to X.

• Special Teams
  • Understand Box and One concept
  • Implement 2 basic, man up plays.