What makes the Tufts lacrosse program great?
Photo credit: John Strohsack
Toughness.
Culture.
Work ethic.
Lives for the next play.
Appreciation. For life. For opportunities. For one another.
Loves the game.
Experience.
Freedom.
Talent and skill.
Talent and skill can make a team great, but talent and skill is part of the reason a Program is great.
Two of the country’s premier lacrosse clubs, 3d Lacrosse (CO) and For the Love of the Game (NY), have joined forces to present the FLG in 3d Fall Shootout. With the top club programs throughout the country in attendance and over 100 college coaches from Divisions I, II and III, the FLG in 3d Fall Shootout is shaping up to be the most highly touted team recruiting showcase of the fall. Club teams will have the chance to play three games per day. All the action starts tomorrow morning at 8am and the last game will be Sunday at 3:30pm. For updates on this weekends FLG in 3d Fall Shootout, follow @3drising @flglax @3dlacrosse @flglax
10 reasons why you should think inside the box with FLG Lacrosse this winter.
1. Get Sharpe – Helps you sharpen the axe before the start of your spring season
2. Location – our box program is ran out of Sportime in Bethpage, located in the heart of Long Island
3. Inexpensive – sign up by Thanksgiving using the coupon code s16thanksgiving and pay $40 a session (boys) and $30 a session (girls)
4. Saturday’s – our Box Lacrosse Programs are on Saturday’s during the day. Prime time to get better and come from a far (or from close by!)
5. Think inside the box – FLG Club Directors and Coaches have thought on the edge of box, creating a unique, creative, and fun box program for players inside the box rink
6. Develop – our box program incorporates authentic box lacrosse training. Coaches run box drills and small area games to ensure players are developing like the player’s north of the border.
7. Competitive – our Box lacrosse Program incorporates league style games. This creates a competitive, fun environment for players involved in our Box Training Programs.
8. Touches – our Box Program is played inside an authentic box lacrosse rink. The boards allow the ball to constantly stay in play and allows for players to battle against the walls of the rink. Enhancing the number of touches players get exponentially.
9. Friendships – players come from all over Long Island to play in our Box Programs. It’s a great opportunity to meet, play with, and against some of the best youth/high school lacrosse players on the island.
10. Girls Box – we have one of the only Girl’s Box Lacrosse training Programs in Long Island
The Perfect Coaching Duo
We’ve been running club lacrosse teams for about 10 years now. Over the past ten years, we’ve learned a lot about how to build the most effective coaching staffs for our teams. Today, for this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday session, the FLG Club Directors sat down and brainstormed this idea.
When it comes to coaching club lacrosse, it’s usually best and most effective to have 2 full-time coaches for every club lacrosse team in your program. When analyzing the two people that should work together, it’s important to understand that these coaches must agree upon certain cornerstone values. If one coach only cares about winning and the other coach only cares about developing, they will never be able to work together for long. Secondly, it’s important to understand that your coaching duo must compliment each other on certain characteristics. For example, if you have two coaches that only care about offense and scoring goals, the defensive players on your team will suffer and lack the attention they deserve.
For the sake of educating our followers on what it takes to build the perfect club lacrosse coaching-duo, we’ve organized our thoughts below:
Below are 3 cornerstone values that BOTH coaches must agree upon in order for them to have a successful club season:
Below are 3 traits that coaches can compliment each other on, helping them have a successful club season:
It’s important to understand the difference between what coaches should agree upon vs. compliment each other on. If you do this and hire coaches that follow those guidelines, your club will be that much closer to finding the perfect coaching duos.
Find something your passionate about?
Than, don’t give up. Work harder. Get tougher. Help others. Become unstoppable. Keep learning. Get over the hump. Never give up something your passionate about.
#Motivation #FLG #FLGLAX
The difference between coaches not knowing and not caring.
Not Knowing
If you’re yelling at kids for doing something wrong, and don’t explain how to do it right.
Not Caring
If you don’t say anything while your player’s do things wrong, that’s not right.
At FLG, we learn, we grow, we know, we care, we teach, we love what we do.
Harvard Senior Captain, Stephen Jahelka’s locker #42
Great day at Harvard.
Got a chance to meet with the men and women’s coaching staff. Talk X’s and O’s. Discuss the philosophies of the FLG Program. Talk about what the Crimson look for in a recruit. Watch film. Play chess on the white board. Tour the campus. Each lunch in the city. Meet players on the Men’s Team. Check out the locker room. Spend a day at Harvard talking lacrosse and life. What’s better than that. #lifesgood #crimsonlax #flg #flglax
How FLG sets the tempo.
Start practice with a plan.
Execute that plan.
No talking amongst the coaches.
Quick water breaks.
Play fast.
Play hard.
Substitute fast.
Move between drills fast.
Make every ground ball a contested one.
Start drills on time.
End drills on time.
Collect lacrosse balls quickly.
Game speed.
Learn something new.
Ask questions.
Earn respect.
Exceed expectations.
Play consistently.
Play passionately.
What’s the tempo of your Program?
It all goes back to defining success for your Program. The moments that make you proud as an organization reflect your definition for success within your organization.
Here’s what makes us at FLG proud:
When a player asks a coach a detailed question about their specific position, “Coach, how can I prevent my attacker from getting underneath me without getting a push call?” This shows a player really wants to get better. Proactively asking questions is a sure way to develop that intellect for the game that’s so important.
When a player does their recruiting homework after asking them only once. “Sarah, please make sure to go onto Lacrosse Recruits and favorite 50 schools.” “You got it, coach!” This shows us a player wants to get recruited and do everything they can to help themselves through their recruiting process.
When we get word that one of our FLG Select Players or FLG Alumni gets voted captain of their respective Middle, High School, College, or Professional team. “Just wanted to drop a quick line to say hello and share the good news that Mark was chosen as one of the captains for UNC lacrosse. Incase you haven’t read about it already. We are very excited and proud of him and love to share the news with everyone who shares in this accomplishment.” That was a message we received from the mother of Mark Rizzo, captain of the UNC Men’s Lacrosse team. Mark’s an FLG Alumni who currently works with our Program when he’s home from school. Mark’s a great player and an even better young man.
FLG Alumni, Mark Rizzo, was voted Captain of the University of North Carolina Men’s Lacrosse Team
When our parents send us an article showing FLG player involvement in their school or community. It makes us proud to see player’s in our Program taking time out of their week to do something productive within their community or for an organization their passionate about.
What makes you proud as a Lacrosse Program? Please feel free to comment and share stories that made you proud.
How do you break the huddle?
At FLG, we break the huddle with three words, “Be The Best.” Those three words sum up our definition of success.
We don’t break the huddle with
1, 2, 3… “Win the Game!”
Winning a game isn’t our definition of success. As club lacrosse coaches, we should help studletes become the best athletes, students, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters they can be. As we work towards our goals of developing studletes into being the best they can be, we find ourselves becoming successful leaders, mentors, and coaches.
We hope you enjoy today’s motivational monday quote.
Also, we hope it inspires you to find something to break your huddle with.
Something of meaning.
Something that defines what your Program is all about!
