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Working With The Officials

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Working With The Officials

Bruce Weber stated it best, “It’s not just the opposing team that the players and managers want to defeat; they want to get the better of anyone in their way, the umpire included. This essential aggression is built into the game, and it’s something an umpire has to recognize and accept before he can handle himself effectively on the field.”

As a coach, you have to interact with officials in lacrosse. In fact, the rules require it. For instance, only a ...

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Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil

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Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil

Good versus Evil. Right versus Wrong. Morality versus Immorality. Shoulder Angel versus Shoulder Devil.

All of these capture the inner struggle we all have to do the right thing. This struggle is characterized as our conscience, and we all have one. Yet, for young players their conscience, like themselves, is immature. This is not to say that young players do not have a conscience. Just that is is currently undergoing construction.

Parents and immediate family members lay the deep foundation of conscience. ...

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The Importance of Helmets

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Recently a young man from the local lacrosse community was playing wall ball with a friend and this young man got hit right below the ear on an errant shot.

He went into a convulsion and had to be air lifted to Emory Children’s hospital

where he was put into a coma to allow his brain to recover.  I spoke to one of his coaches today who is a good friend and he said it was a freak accident and they pray ...

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Great Weekend of Lacrosse

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I hope everyone enjoyed the weather this weekend on opening day of Atlanta Youth Lacrosse.  Even with spring break taking many families away we still managed to have some very close games and everyone had fun.

It is interesting when you get to spend time with young people and how the interact with each other.  While I know they have enormous amounts of pressure on them it is good to see how much fun they can have it we just let ...

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Keep It Simple

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Keep It Simple

Parsimonious is a scientific term that effectively means to phrase something as simply as possible. The longer and more convoluted a statement is the less parsimonious it becomes. Now why am I drudging out scientific nomenclature in regards to youth lacrosse? Put parsimoniously, I want coaches to stick with the basics.

In my ten years of coaching and officiating youth lacrosse I have seen a lot of varying coaching styles. Some successful, and others not so ...

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Focusing on Self Improvement

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Focusing on Self Improvement

There is a lot to be said for winning in sports. Without winning we have no reason for overtime, and no weight given to championships. However, winning cannot be the end-all-be-all for youth sports. The goal of coaches, parents, and players should be on self-improvement for the child; both as a player and as a person.

I found the following article during some psychology research for a paper I’m working on. I believe it hits the mark with what all coaches ...

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How Badly Do You Want To Succeed?

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How Badly Do You Want To Succeed?

What do you want to succeed at? How badly do you want it? I stumbled across this video entitled How Bad Do You Want It? (Success). The video is a combination of a football player working hard to get faster, stronger, better with an audio track dubbed over it. The audio track comes from from motivational speaker Eric Thomas, also known as the Hip ...

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Live Blogging the Convention Days 2 and 3

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Live Blogging the Convention Days 2 and 3

What a fantastic weekend. Really, that is the best word to describe how the 2012 Convention went. Both Coach Lou and Coach Shaun had excellent presentations. Coach Lou spoke on how to get the most out of a short practice, and Shaun Lux detailed the two man game in lacrosse. By all accounts of the attendees, each speaker did an incredible job explaining their topic of choice.

On the officials side, I was once again ...

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