Pass Interference
Cannons defenseman, Trilogy Lacrosse rep Mitch Belisle on how to cut off skip lanes after defending the ball
>> WHAT I DO
Force your fi rst step to be toward the inside, making it a shorter distance for you to cover.
Once you’re done defending the ball, help to the inside to cover the stick lane and also be able to help inside if a teammate slides. Take your fi rst three steps to the inside. The inside is the most dangerous area.
WORK AT TRILOGY
Trilogy Lacrosse believes in great lacrosse instruction and education. Tournaments and games seem to be the primary focus now, but teaching the fundamentals and teaching the game the right way is something that we really harp on in everything we do, with beginners or players preparing to play at the college level.
STAY COMPETITIVE
One fun thing with our group at Trilogy is that it’s a bunch of competitive guys. When we all get together, we’re competing in everything that we do, whether that is playing pick-up basketball, playing lacrosse or having contests when we’re eating lunch or dinner together. We’re always competing with each other and pushing each other to be better. Our offi ce is an area of Brooklyn called DUMBO [Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass]. We’ve hosted two “Duels in DUMBO,” where we’ve matched up two guys in the offi ce against each other.
DREAM OF THREE RINGS
I’m getting married in October, after hopefully a world championship with Team USA and an MLL championship. That’s the goal. Three rings this summer and fall. Hannah and I both went to Cornell together, didn’t date in college but reconnected about two-and- a-half years ago kind of randomly near where she was living.
My Proposal It was pretty cool. We went to
Keep your stick up in passing lanes during the entire play. Never drop it to your hip or below your hip. Keeping it up discourages passes.
Yosemite National Park in California this fall. I popped the question at the very top of Half Dome. It was quite the journey to get up there [eight miles up, with 4,800- foot elevation gain]. I just push her into situations that terrify her, and as long as she makes it through, then everything is good. I just push the boundary a little bit further each time. I’m trying to get her skydiving next.
For positioning, you don’t want to get extended so far out that you can’t help inside. You also don’t want to get caught ball-watching, staring at the skip pass and losing track of your man.
A Publication of US Lacrosse >> MY FAVORITE ATHLETE
Ken Griffey Jr. He always one of my favorites growing up [in Maryland]. I always used to go to baseball games any time the Seattle Mariners were in town. My best sports memory is I asked him for his autograph after batting practice. There was a sea of people. I asked him politely and he came up and talked to me for a couple minutes. He signed my poster, “To Mitch, All the Best, Ken Griffey, Jr.,” and went back in the clubhouse. Being polite and approachable was something that he recognized and reciprocated. I still have that framed poster.
— compiled by Corey McLaughlin February 2014 >> LACROSSE MAGAZINE 87 My Vision
It may sound crazy, but it’s only a matter of time before the equipment becomes like a one- piece zip-on suit of armor that mimics the human muscle and skeletal system. It goes on the outside. These are all mental images right now. The human body was designed pretty well. Now we just need an exoskeleton for us.
©VINNY CARCHIETTA; ©SHUTTERSTOCK
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