| Coaches Notebook In addition to some helpful Player information, Coaches will make entries here regarding their observations during practices and games. All players are encouraged to review this information on a regular basis. |
| Playbook Forms Posted October 20, 2008 Here are the blank field forms you will need for Practice: • Clearing Full Field; • Clearing Template; • Defense 2-Box; • Defense 4-Box; • Defense 6-Box; • Defense Base 5-Box; • Shooting Cage; • Shooting Cage Field; • Transition Fox Sub 4-Box; • Transition Fox Sub 6-Box: • 8 Field Play Template |
Pre-Season Conditioning, Wall Drills and Dynamic Warm-ups Also, ALL Varisty players will be expected to Jump Rope and perform 700 jumps in 10 minutes. This is tough to do, but your Coaches expect that you be in that kind of condition to make the Varisty Squad in 2008. |
| Coach Goals for 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 Click here to see the goals set by your Coaches for 2009 |
| The 2009 Season - What to Expect Posted October 20, 2008 The upcoming 2009 season will present some challenges and opportunities for our future Southridge Lacrosse Teams. Your Coaches met recently and spent considerable time evaluating the 2009 Season, including current overall Team and individual skills, practice formats and content, and Team game presence. With this in mind, we set some guidelines for the 2009 Season, including where and what we want our Team to be next year, Team goals and individual Player expectations, and practice focus and discipline. You can expect to see our Team step it up in 2009, so prepare yourself, physically and mentally, for exciting improvements. Additionally, we expect an increase in the number of students who will want to join our Teams including players from the Youth Lacrosse programs who have expressed solid interest in "trying out" for the 2009 Teams. With Team goals and expectations set at a much higher level for 2009 and the influx of potentially talented players, coupled with the finite resources we have available, principally the limited number of experienced Coaches and minimal available or useable field space, we may find ourselves in the uncomfortable, unfortunate, but predictable situation of having to make positions on the Southridge Lacrosse Teams competitive, certainly for Varsity and possibly for JV. In other words we will be looking at "tryout and cut" Teams for the 2009 Season. Our goal for 2009 is to present a program that will include 3 Teams: Varsity, JV & JV2. The critical factor governing the number of Teams is the number of available, qualified and dedicated Coaches. We can manage the Varsity Team with 3 Coaches: Coaches Campbell, Voas and Weselak; 4 would be ideal. Each JV Team requires at least 2 full-time Coaches and at this time we have 2 Coaches who can dedicate 5 days a week to the JV Team: Coach Huber & Coach Hodgson. If this does not change then there will not be a JV2 team in 2009. NO Seniors will be allowed to play on the JV Team. The JV Team is the "farm" team for Varsity and the level of play and the intensity of the Coaching at the JV level makes the JV Team a 'competitive' team. Coaches have recognized that Seniors on a JV Team do not benefit the program's developmental goals and they occupy valuable grooming positions on the Team which supplies future Varsity needs. In short, if a Senior player tries out for the Team he is trying out for the VARSITY team and if the does not make the Varsity team he will be cut. This is no different from OSAA School sports and the rationale is similar. Remember that there are only so many players we can have on each team. To be effective as Coaches, for you to get the attention you need to develop, for those on the Team to get the playing time they want and deserve, and for our program to improve its competitive edge, the Coaching Staff maintains that about 20 Players per Team at practices is an ideal number. With 3 Teams that means our program would function best with 60 players total. We are planning to use the Practice-Game system we utilized in 2008 for the 2009 season. We will swing some players up from JV for certain Varsity games. What this means to you as a current Southridge Lacrosse Player is that the field will be much more competitive in 2009 and a position on ANY Team may boil down to "the better Player". Does this mean that we may be missing potentially exceptional Players? Does this mean that there are some who will NOT have the opportunity to play? It may, depending on the numbers we get, the numbers we believe we can manage, and the quality of the Players who sign up to play. The recommendations we make regarding pre-season skills development and physical conditioning are a measure of several things: where we are going as a Team, where we think you are, and what you can do to improve your chances of maintaining or advancing your position on the Teams. Taken seriously, you will be competitive if you dedicate yourself to improve, use these recommendations to guide your progress, and follow-through. If you ignore any one of these components, you may find yourself not only on the sidelines, but not on the Team. We strongly suggest you consider attending one of the many Summer Lacrosse Skills Camps. Attending a local camp is better than not attending a camp at all, but some of the higher caliber camps are held out-of-state, back East and in California. Also, you should become involved in a Summer Lacrosse league. Finally, box (indoor) lacrosse begins in September and we encourage you to participate to develop your "quick stick" skills. Overall, you should IMPROVE your conditioning throughout the next few months. "Box" lacrosse is NOT a substitute for sustained aerobic and strenuous anaerobic conditioning. Weight training, sustained sprint training, and flexibility and agility training, coupled with consistent stick and ball handling practice and improvment are the goals you should set for yourself. You may also consider playing another sport in the off-season, but carry your Lacrosse stick to and from that sport's practices and games. The bottom line is this: if the next time you pick up your Lacrosse stick to practice is the week before the 2009 Practice begins, you may NOT make the Team, ANY Team. If the next time you do any running, strength conditioning, and speed and agility work is during 2009 pre-practice conditioning week, you may NOT make the Team, ANY Team. Finally, if your skills do not improve between now and the 2009 Practice Season, you may NOT make the Team, ANY Team. We will be looking for the better Players next year to represent our Program at all levels. Do NOT wait until 2009 to get better. Now is the time! We will hit the ground running at the start of the 2009 season so you will need to be ready: physically (in shape & well-skilled), mentally (know the system & know the game) and spiritually (highly motivated & energetic). If you just want the T-shirt you will not make the cut. |
| Rules of Lacrosse Here is a basic overview of the Rules of Lacrosse and play of the game, including a look at field dimensions. New Players and parents are encouraged to review this information. Here is another looks at the Fundamentals of Men's Lacrosse. The "Tao of Lacrosse". Interesting reading. Here is the US Lacrosse Youth Council Code of Conduct Statement. The purpose of the Youth Council’s "Code of Conduct" and the enforcement provisions which follow are to promote, project, and protect the image of lacrosse, and the interests and safety of all those that participate and give their time and effort to the betterment of the Game. |
| Player Evaluation Forms Here are the Player Evaluation Forms we promised. These are some of the areas that your Coaches are using to evaluate your contribution to the Team effort. •Overall Player Evaluation (Web Format) (.pdf Acrobat Reader Format) •Defense Player Evaluation (Web Format) (.pdf Acrobat Reader Format) |
| Who makes a Good Team Captain? |
| Referee Training Please contact Coach Campbell if you are interested in becoming a Referee. Here's a great website for Referee training and game mechanics: ZLAX |