Brooke Eubank's Coaching Lacrosse 4-Pack

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

Paige Soenksen,
University of California-Berkeley Assistant Coach;
2017 All-American at the University of Colorado as a player

and Denise Wescott,
University of California-Berkeley Assistant Coach;
2018 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee;
Director of Lacrosse for the Capital Lacrosse Club (Alexandria, VA);
over 30 years of Division I college coaching experience;
former German National and World Cup Team Head Coach (1996-2005);
New Jersey Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee (2006)
IWLCA Diane Geppi-Aikens Lifetime Achievement College Coaching Award

Where should you start when you want to train a beginner goalkeeper? In this video, University of California-Berkeley assistant coaches - Hall of Famer Denise Wescott and Paige Soenksen - provide the answer by walking you through a number of progressive topics that help develop goalkeeping fundamentals. From equipment selection to on-field communication, you'll learn to train and strengthen the basic skills your goalkeeper needs to be successful come game time.

Vision and Hand-Eye Coordination

Learn three drills that will improve the vision tracking of your goalkeeper through the use of numbered balls, playing cards, and colored balls. You'll see two drills that develop hand-eye coordination while working on the goalie's "hand-to-ball" motion.

Wescott and Soenksen show you how a deck of cards can be used to develop a number of fundamental skills in their "Call Em" drill. You will watch them train proper hand/head-to-ball, low-save technique, and footwork in this simple drill.

Save Mechanics and Clearing

Starting with the foundation of the goalie stance and how to grip the stick, learn to train save mechanics for all shot locations. Wescott and Soenksen show you save motions for both stick and off-stick shot locations of high, waist, low, and bounce. You'll learn to recognize and correct when your goalie isn't leading with their hands, getting the head to the ball, and "getting around" the ball. Additionally, you'll come to understand the importance of "following" wide shots.

Next, watch Wescott and Soenksen detail proper clearing technique, as well as what to look for when starting your team's offense. Learn a technique to increase your goalkeeper's power on the clear, and what techniques to avoid using.

Communication

Effective communication is a key skill required for the goalkeeper position. You will learn the key communication aspects to start teaching your beginner keepers, or to revisit with your veteran keepers. Keeping the ball out of the net is the primary focus of a goalkeeper, and learning to be a good communicator will assist them in achieving that goal.

The fundamentals, from seeing and reacting to the ball better, to efficiently and effectively making the save, are what goalkeepers at every level need to work on constantly. This video featuring coaches Wescott and Soenksen will provide you with a great resource to address this need. Whether you're working with novice or experienced goalkeepers, or are a new or seasoned goalkeeper coach, you'll be sure to find value in this video.

63 minutes. 2020.

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

Paige Soenksen,
University of California-Berkeley Assistant Coach;
2017 All-American at the University of Colorado as a player

and Denise Wescott,
University of California-Berkeley Assistant Coach;
2018 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee;
Director of Lacrosse for the Capital Lacrosse Club (Alexandria, VA);
over 30 years of Division I college coaching experience;
former German National and World Cup Team Head Coach (1996-2005);
New Jersey Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee (2006)
IWLCA Diane Geppi-Aikens Lifetime Achievement College Coaching Award

Being an impact goalkeeper involves more than being proficient at "seeing the ball" and having good save mechanics - it involves being an integral part of the defensive unit with their presence, mobility, and communication. This video featuring Hall of Fame Coach Denise Wescott and Coach Paige Soenksen presents a number of situational topics to help goalies train to get to this next level. From the pregame warm-up to being the "8th defender," learn how to help your goalkeeper be an impact player.

Warm-Up and Situational Positioning

An effective warm up needs to cover all fundamental save mechanics at a pace that gets the goalkeeper into game mode and ready to go. You'll see how the Cal Berkeley goalies go through a warm-up that works on all shot locations and types.

Coaches Wescott and Soenksen walk you through a number of game situations and discuss how the goalkeeper should address them. You will learn effective footwork on getting into position for a save, proper body positioning to make the save, and some tactical considerations to increase your understanding of optimal net coverage. In all, you'll see how to train for the following situations:

• Crease Rolls
• 2-on-1
• 1-on-GK
• Intercepting
• Clear and Recover
• 8 meter shots

Wescott and Soenksen also show how to train your goalies to move in relation to what the attacker does, and how their footwork and body positioning creates and eliminates opportunities for the attacker.

Save Footwork and Angle Play

Using a variety of shots and motions, see how to train your goalkeeper on the footwork necessary to move within their crease. Understand the role angles play in relation to footwork and body position through a drill that dictates movement from the shot locations inside the 8-meter and below GLE. Coach Westcott shows how the use of ropes can assist in the understanding of angles, and how to adjust within the angle for a shooter changing hands.

Being a great goalkeeper requires more than the ability to save the ball. This video will help train your goalies to get to the next level through an understanding of how to be prepared for a variety of situations that occur in a game. Helping your goalkeeper become the "8th defender" will not only help your goalkeeper, but your entire defensive unit!

83 minutes. 2020.



LXD-05732A:

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.