WHO:

Madison and Milwaukee based teams, with players graduating from high school in 2035 & 2036.

CHOICES:

The 8U Mites option is designed to provide a progressive lacrosse environment that prepares players for competition and builds on their love of the game and their team.

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.

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