Posts Tagged 'youth lacrosse'

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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How To Yell When Watching From The Sideline

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How To Yell When Watching From The Sideline

I like well-behaved parents/fans because I have been around a lot of ill-behaved ones. In nearly every youth game that I have officiated (U15 and below) there has been at least one, and usually two, fans screaming instructions to their player or entire team from the sideline. Often, it is incredibly poor advice. These are the same individuals who yell when their player is taken off the field, openly criticize the officials, and generally know next to nothing about how ...

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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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Oldies, But Goodies

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Oldies, But Goodies

Below are a compilation of some posts from the early blogging days of your’s truly. While they are dated by about a year or so, they are still quite relevant to the sport. Also, this gives me a little bit of extra time to get my writing schedule in order, and do some research on future content. As always, if anyone has any ideas for future posts, please comment below or email [email protected].

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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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More Streamlined Website For Our Members

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More Streamlined Website For Our Members

I’ve been doing a lot of research into the Google Analytics of www.ayllax.com, and I’ve found that most visitors only go to a few particular pages. Because of this I streamlined the AYL website to better reflect what people want to access, and make it easier for our visitors to access their favorite pages.

The main menu has been trimmed down to the six most important options that visitors go to regularly:

  1. Seasons
  2. Schedules
  3. Rosters
  4. Blog
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Regarding Penalties

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Regarding Penalties

In a little over a month we will be starting games for the 2012 Spring Season. With games we cannot escape getting penalties. I assure you, at some point during the season at least one player, and probably more, will receive a technical or a personal foul. I have yet to ref a perfect game, and no player has yet played in a perfect game. Because penalties are a part of lacrosse, it is important to educate players, coaches, and ...

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