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So Your Son Wants to Play Lacrosse… by Scott Carruthers, BYC U11 Coordinator So Your Son Wants to Play Lacrosse… by Scott Carruthers, BYC U11 Coordinator About the Author Scott has been active as a player and a coach in lacrosse for over 30 years. He is returning to his fifth year as a BYC coach currently coordinating the U11 program. Scott was introduced to lacrosse his sophomore year at East High School in West Chester, PA. He graduated 1st Team All-State and was invited to play in the North/South All Star Games. Scott was awarded a scholarship to Drexel University where he switched to attack his junior year and earned First Team All-Conference honors his junior and senior years. 1 Following college, Scott played for Eagles Eye Lacrosse Club in Philadelphia during which time he was drafted by the Philadelphia Wings. There he played for 1989 World Championship team before ending his competitive career playing for the Pittsburgh Bulls. Living in Garnet Valley, Scott and his wife Kathy have three children Katie, Ryan and Caroline who all play and enjoy their time on local lacrosse teams. Introduction How do you respond when your son mentions he wants to play lacrosse and all that comes to your mind is a small town in Wisconsin or perhaps a car made by Buick promoted by star golfer Tiger Woods? Well you might be surprised to learn that lacrosse is the only native sport of America – invented by the American Indians. Games were held between neighboring tribes some lasting weeks on end where the goals could be miles apart between territories. The ball was roughly the size of a golf ball and courageous braves would sometimes try to hide the ball from their opposition in their mouths. They were considered courageous because a common tactic employed by the opposing teams to dislodge the suspected ball would be to inflict a sharp blow to the back of the head with their stick. This not only caused significant injury but, in some cases, death. Needless to say the game has evolved into what many consider to be the “fastest game on two feet”. You might also be surprised to know that ice hockey is NOT the national sport of Canada, its lacrosse. Lacrosse continues to experience tremendous growth and expansion. As your son may have already learned, one of the secrets to this growth is that there’s a place for every athlete in this game – fast, strong, quick, small, tough, fearless and smart. One of the greatest players I ever played with was 5’ 8” and weighed a mere 156 pounds –His name is Timmy Goldstein and he was a 1st team All American At Brown, 1st team USA and named to the All World Team several years. His success lied in his darting quickness, stellar ground ball game and laser feeding from anywhere on the field. This he achieved while often being defended by bodies many inches taller than he and most of the time 50-100 pounds heavier! Lacrosse vs. Although the game may look a little unconventional, it’s quite easy to understand given a Other Sports little perspective. So here you go. When you watch lacrosse think of hockey, soccer, basketball and football: • Hockey - Lacrosse can be thought of as hockey in the air only with more men on the field. It’s little wonder that you’ll find many NHL players on the ice today with some form of lacrosse in their background. I’ve always thought of lacrosse as the poor man’s hockey – I couldn’t afford the ice time as kid so I found lacrosse and never looked back – well sometimes… • Soccer - It has many similarities to Soccer in terms of total players on the playing Copyright © 2008, Brandywine Youth Club, All Rights Reserved Page 1 of 6 field and on/off side violations. Both games have midfielders, defensemen and attack (or strikers in soccer). • Basketball - The offense and defense objectives are almost identical to Basketball. Player positioning, picks (where someone without the ball stands still in front of an unsuspecting defender who is then separated from the person he’s defending), give and goes, rolling off a pick, offensive and defensive rotations etc are very similar. • Football - Lacrosse offers the physical contact of Football which is gradually introduced in our BYC program. There is no hitting at U7 and U9 and then a modified hitting guideline introduced at U11. This means that hitting is restricted to 3-steps (meaning the player can not take more than 3-steps to make contact) prior to contact – any more and they are flagged for a penalty. Lacrosse is a This area is of some concern and uncertainty to parents so I’ll give a quick overview of Contact and what you’ll see most often: Collision Sport • Ground Balls - contact can take place within 5 yards of the ball. It is important to understand that all contact to any player must NOT be from behind – that’s a penalty. A unique aspect to this 5-yard rule can be seen with ground balls where you may have two team players against one trying to gain possession of a ball on the ground. In this case, lacrosse players are taught instinctively to divide the duties – one player SHOULD take out (make contact) with the one opposing player screaming “MAN” leaving his other fellow teammate with a clean opportunity to scoop with no resistance – you SHOULD hear this person scooping the ball scream “BALL RELEASE” meaning he has possession and his teammate SHOULD release his contact from the opposition – remember if contact continues beyond 5-yards from the ball just scooped up, that interference and we turn the ball back over. • Picking - all picks MUST be stationary – you can not run into someone who does NOT have possession of the ball or within 5-yards of a loose ball. • Crease Contact – This is the highest goal threat area hence is treated as such – again very similar to hockey. Note any NHL game in the crease when the puck is near it – everyone is “locked on” to a man. Whenever the ball is in our goal crease area, whether possessed by the opposition or on the ground, players are instructed to get very physical – yes, you’ll see penalties here but the alternative could be the ball ending in our net which we don’t want. • Stick Checking – technically, your forearms and hands are considered part of your stick and can be checked in an attempt to dislodge the ball. What appears to be very painful to onlookers watching and hearing these stick checks is “often” not so – there are exceptions... Players are protected in the right places. Sometimes what you’ll as a defender continues to slap checking a ball carrier on the arm is the referee yelling – “get wood, get wood”. This is a warning call to that defender to make a better attempt at hitting the stick because, in his opinion, the defender is trying to intentionally inflict physical harm and not making a reasonable effort to go for the ball. Incidentally, “get wood” refers to the days when stick shafts were made of hickory wood as opposed to the ultra-light (and expensive) composites of today. Should the referee tire of the same defender practicing this tactic, he’ll introduce him to the penalty box. The Field of Play Attached along with this document are a few pages laying out the more common elements of field play. We provide graphics and short explanations of face-offs, staying on sides, penalties and possession of the ball in out-of-bounds situations. Possession of the ball Copyright © 2008, Brandywine Youth Club, All Rights Reserved Page 2 of 6 going out of bounds can often create confusion to those new to the game. It basically comes down to if the ball going out of bounds was deemed to be a shot on goal or not. Simply stated, if it’s determined that the ball was a shot on goal, the team with the closest player to the BALL when it went out gains possession. That’s why you might see several shots on goal in any one possession without losing possession to the other team. This is also why you’ll see teams with a man behind the goal most all the time and you might see goalies immediately racing back to the line following a shot that went wide. Penalties – When the other team gets a penalty, it’s commonly referred to as a Man-up situation – the Man-Up & Man- reverse of this is a man-down situation where your team is penalized. Similar to other Down sports, lacrosse has specialized units designed specifically to attack or defend against these situations. What is contained below is how the sport of lacrosse treats these situations in order to best position their opportunities to win games. At U11, your head coach will determine whether they follow this strategy not – sometimes with penalties, your coach may elect to just leave those already on the field in there and others may elect to substitute. • Man-up – this group typically represents 3 midfielders and 3 attackmen who demonstrate the highest offensive threat to the other team. They are typically a team’s best ball handlers and shooters and are sometimes spread across several lines on any particular team. As a coach, you need to balance the skill levels on each line. As such, you may see a man-up or man-down unit being comprised on several players from several different lines. Following a penalty, this can and does cause a challenge for the coach to re-balance his lines to return to a normal rotation of the 3 lines.
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