12U Youth Futures
WHO:
Madison and Milwaukee based teams, with players graduating from high school in 2031 & 2032
OBJECTIVE:
Affordable, hands-on instruction in a fun, safe environment. This is a training program that reinforces the fundamentals of passing, catching, scooping, shooting, and dodging, along with defensive techniques, and aims to build a solid foundation of stickwork mechanics while correcting bad habits. Players are introduced to foundational team offense, defense, and transition concepts, learning to apply them in part-whole environments and test them against solid regional competition.
Method:
Part-whole, progressive drillwork with a consistent focus on individual repetition, strong foundations, and applied team concept. Coaches develop key tenets of positivity, effort, teamwork, team celebration, and a confident learner’s mindset through effective modeling, correction, inclusion, and positive feedback. A part-whole, team-offense framework includes progressive “numbers” situations, groundball scrambles, 5-outlets rules, motion concept rules, making space, filling space, and re-attacking the backside. Defensively, our players learn to navigate in a team-defense structure of “guarding two,” slides, recovery, posture, pick-play, and communication. Our players finish the season with a foundation of lacrosse skills, instinct, confidence and teamwork that prepares them for high school and guides their continued development.
TRYOUTS:
Madison:
Where:
Verona Area High School – Football Turf – 234 Wildcat Way, Verona, WI
When:
Sunday, August 18, 4:30PM-6:00PM
Milwaukee:
Where:
Mindiola Park – 325 Hoover Ave, Waukesha, WI
When:
Sunday, August 18, 2:30PM-4:00PM
FALL 2024 EVENTS:
Big 6 Challenge
October 12-13 I Wisconsin Dells, WI
Top Cheddar
October 20 I Franksville, WI
Team IL Invite
October 26-27 I Loves Park, IL
Optional 2031 & 2032 State Team Event:
Project Midwest
November 9-10 I St. Louis, MO
INSPIRED COACHING – RELENTLESS DEVELOPMENT – UNMATCHED EXPOSURE