with Brooke Eubanks,
University of California-Berkeley Head Women's Lacrosse Coach;
If you're searching for drills that work on a wide variety of individual and team skills, while being flexible enough to accommodate your team size - look no further!
In this video, Brooke Eubanks presents her top 10 practice drills. Inside are game warm-up drills to help your team adjust to the field, plus dynamic and flexible practice drills that will address many of your team's needs.
Draws
Coach Eubanks takes her team through three highly competitive draw drills that work on many individual and team skills. Your players will learn to quickly adjust to changing situations off of the draw, on both offense and defense. Additionally, athletes will learn to play under intense pressure to either get the ball back, or to possess and finish. Eubanks shows how to get your players to better utilize the time left on the clock, as well as:
- Draws into a settled offense or a man-up offense.
- 30-Seconds Draws.
- A 3-team draw drill that puts intense pressure on the possession team and requires quality movement of the ball and players themselves.
Playing In-Tight
Learn to play below the 12m in a couple of high tempo competitive drills that emphasize good individual technique, efficient and effective team movement, and quality defensive awareness and communication. Coach Eubanks covers player formations to use for the number of attackers you have, how to practice man-down defense while recognizing where the immediate threat is, and how to teach attackers to be more effective in the 8m by dividing it in half.
Controlled Scrimmage
Next, you will see how Coach Eubanks sets up a "controlled scrimmage" in which she has her team work on three focus concepts in the context of game play. This is a full-field drill that has complete flexibility as to the concept worked on, and is run with conditions set for between the restraining lines, and below each restraining line. Players are required to stay within their area and play within the constraints of that individual small-sided game before transitioning the ball into the next area.
Coach Eubanks provides an excellent selection of team drills which you could immediately adopt as your team practice drill set. Her drills are highly competitive, flexible, and enjoyable for any team to perform!
136 minutes. 2020.
LXD-05732B:
with Brooke Eubanks,
University of California-Berkeley Head Women's Lacrosse Coach;
former Stanford University Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach;
3x member of the Canadian National Team;
scored 12 goals for the 3rd place 2009 World Cup Tournament team
Putting the ball in the back of the net is so much more than shooting. Spend a session with Coach Brooke Eubanks as she explains her best shooting and finishing drills in her office on a white board, then takes you to the field as her Cal-Berkeley team goes through a set of seven drills! Using drills designed with maximum creativity and flexibility built in, you will learn to train your players to be effective inside the critical scoring area under various circumstances and pressure.
Shooting While Marked
Using football dummies, Coach Eubanks has her players work on engaging a defender while getting their stick around the defender for a shot opportunity. Progressing from "hands on" the defender, to steeping away and into them, you'll see how to create and capitalize on opportunities that will catch the goalkeeper unaware. Eubanks also shows how to:
- Get creative with your 8m dodging as you follow your teammates through their patterns.
- Dodge defenders, from a variety of angles, and extend your stick around them.
- Create scoring opportunities that both the defense and goalie will not expect.
Shooting Through Contact
Learn to play through contact while in the process of getting to a shooting lane. Using a blocking pad to initiate contact, teach your players how to get bumped, take the contact, and still take the ball to goal while your elbows and hands are under attack. Coach Eubanks hits on three main segments:
- Contact on the dodge. You'll see how to work on maintaining possession of the ball and momentum along your path.
- Contact on catch. Practice taking the contact and still gaining possession of the ball into your cut.
- Contact while shooting. How to finish your opportunity strong while under body contact!
Competitive Around The World
Eubanks shows to how amp up a simple shot placement drill by adding a high level of competition and game-like intensity! You can run this drill as either a timed team competition, or as an individual competition as demonstrated. As with all of her drills, Eubanks shows how it is flexible enough for you to adopt to the specific finishing pattern you want to work on with your players.
This video from Coach Eubanks provides more than a series of shooting drills. This session shows how to get your players to work on creating opportunities in which they can shoot, while also working on shot placement.
54 minutes. 2020.