List of Fun Games for Lacrosse Practice: Improve Your Skills While Having Fun

List of Fun Games for Lacrosse Practice: Improve Your Skills While Having Fun
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Lacrosse practice drills do not have to be intense and serious exercises. They can be fun and entertaining at the same time. Fun games for lacrosse practice can make developing lacrosse skills easier and more fun, especially for younger players. If you’re a coach or a trainer, here are some fun games for lacrosse practice that you can use in training your players.

Messy Backyard

In this fun game, two groups of players stand on opposite sides of a division, which can be made of a line using cones or jumping ropes. There can be 4-5 players in each group and on each side of the division. Six or seven balls are placed on the ground. The object of the game is for the players to scoop and lightly transfer the balls from their side of the division, which is called their backyard, to the other group’s backyard. At the end of a pre-determined time limit, the group with the lesser number of balls in their backyard is declared the winner. This game improves the players’ scooping and ball handling skills.

Modified Lacrosse Game

In this lacrosse practice game, players engage each other in a lacrosse match that is slightly modified. The modification of the game involves a 4-on-3 or 3-on-2 match up and the requirement of 4 passes before a goal can be made. The team on the offensive should pass the ball 4 times before they can shoot the ball. This game develops the necessary skills and sensibilities needed in a real lacrosse game. Passing, catching, cradling, and scooping are skills that can be improved while the players are engaged in a match that closely resembles a real lacrosse game.

Musical Ground Balls

This is similar to the fun game musical chairs but instead of using chairs, you use lacrosse balls. The players dance or just stand ready as the music plays and when it stops, the coach or trainer throws a number of balls, which is one less than the numbers of participating players. The players then scoop a ball each and the player who doesn’t get a ball is eliminated from the game. The coach or trainer does this until only one player is left, who is then declared the winner. This develops the players’ speed, agility, ball handling, and scooping skills.

Hungry Hippo

This game develops players’ skills in ball handling, cradling, and scooping, as well as speed and stamina. Players are divided into two groups and the objective of the game is to bring as many balls as possible back to their respective team’s hippo. The coach or trainer throws all of the balls into the field at the beginning of the game and then, one by one, the players proceed to get a ball each and bring it back to their hippo. The group with the most number of balls is declared the winner.

References

articlesbase: How to Teach Lacrosse Skills to Kids Through Games

PerryHall: Gators Lacrosse