youth coaching drills?

[Ivo]

hey i am coaching a youth level (15,16,17) field lacrosse team in the near future. Anyone have any good drills they can pass on? thanks......

[Dadabhoy_Muzzi]

There is this one drill my coach showed us. I will see if I can explain it.
First: Make two lines facing each other approx. 20'.
Second: Give the ball to the first person in one of the lines.
Third: Have the person who has the ball run out in a curved line to the left.
Fourth: Have the SECOND person in the second line pop out as his support.
Fifth: The person with the ball passes to the pop out man and runs to the end of the line.
Sixth: Once the pop out man gets the ball, the first person in the line runs out as his outlet pass.
Seventh: Continue for as long as desired.

This may be confusing. If you don't understand please tell me and I will try to attach a picture.

Another good drill that teaches passing and catching is as follows:
Have everyone set up in a rectangle approx. 10' appart from each person. You pass the ball to the first person on your left or right (coaches choice). The ball continues all through the rectangle. Keep adding more balls making the pass comming to the person faster. This way it teaches the reciever to be ready at all time and get people to have accurate passes.

I will post more drills once I remember. I will also try to post some pictures.

[Dadabhoy_Muzzi]

The pictures can be found at:
http://community.webshots.com/user/dadabhoy_muzzi

[UNCdefense]

passing & catching on the run...the one with the 2 lines facing each other that Muzzi mentioned is good...then with that you can also do ground ball drills, the guy with the ball runs towards the other line, about 15-20 feet away he drops it...the player is supposed to yell ball down or something of the sort to indicate a loose ball, runs out gets it yells "ball" or somethign to indicate it was picked up, runs towards the other line & drops it in front of that guy & it goes back & forth...the key is to amke sure they're running & communicating

another one we did is kinda confusing so stick w/ me....imagine a triangle, probably best if you draw one...you have 3 lines all at the points, A, B, & C.....if you are going clockwisethe person form line A is runnign to the person in line B, & has the ball in their stick going lefty....the person form line B catching has his in his right hand....when player from line B catches it, he rolls to hisoutside that is very important, when he rolls to his outside he switches his stick from his right to his left hand.....player from line A joins Line B, Player B has the ball now, he runs towards line C w/ the ball in his left hand, a player from line C catches it in his right rolls outside switches to his left hand & runs towards line A to meet another player
I hope you got that cause thats the best I can do.lol

[wylie_scott]

Here are a couple of articles you might find useful, they have some information and drills, we use them with our younger players, but the concepts are the same for very young players, these teach both passing techniques and also off ball movement

Start with these articles:
http://www.intruder5.com/lax/findspace1.pdf
http://www.intruder5.com/lax/findspace2.pdf

then move on to these

http://www.intruder5.com/lax/sheehanmarch.pdf
http://www.intruder5.com/lax/sheehanapril.pdf

[lax4life56]

if these kids are 15,16,17, hopefully they kno how to pass and catch. so you could try and incorporate shooting drills. like have the attackmen at X and then have them make a dodge and then feed to a middie on either side of the cage.(the middies would break towards the goal one at a time from the top of the box.) also make sure you include basic D drills (slides, and stuff like that)