12U Youth Futures
WHO:
Madison and Milwaukee based teams, with players graduating from high school in 2030 & 2031
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: 2029 Grads
Where:
GRB Academy – 6385 N Towne RD, Windsor, WI
When:
Sunday, December 10, 4:00PM-6:00PM
Milwaukee: 2029 Grads
Where:
STiKS Academy – W240 S5197 Kuenzi Lane, Waukesha, WI
When:
Wednesday, December 13 – 6:00PM-8:00PM
SUMMER 2024 EVENTS:
Project Midwest Invite
June 15-16 I St. Louis, MO
Team IL Invite
June 29-30 I Loves Park, IL
CST Exposure
July 12-14 I Franksville, WI
Madison Capital Classic
July 20-21 I Verona, WI
INSPIRED COACHING – RELENTLESS DEVELOPMENT – UNMATCHED EXPOSURE