Allow him to slide up your stick onto your hands. Make contact with your hands about 2-3 yards before GLE.
Immovable Object
Former Salisbury stud, current Trilogy Lacrosse director Andrew Sellers doesn’t let attackmen drive at GLE
>> WHAT I DO WORK IT ALL
Throw checks away from the goal. When you get into a heart of the ‘D’ or crease area, refrain from it.. Every check you throw, you lose a step.
I did football, wrestling and lacrosse in high school, and those sports have all different training methods. Lacrosse has every aspect: the cardio, explosiveness and quick-feet agility. It facilitates not only muscular development and strengthening, but also muscular endurance. It’s important to focus on the core. A strong core makes you more explosive and faster. Always incorporate some sort of footwork and cardio. Every workout, I’m doing my one or two major muscle groups and incorporating core and agility. I keep it fast-paced and high reps — between 45 minutes and an hour and 15 minutes, in and out.
STAY BUSY ON THE FIELD
PLAY THE BODY
It’s nice with a shot clock for defensemen because the offense can’t have those long possessions that tire you out. But there’s no down time. Every time your man touches the ball, you have to expect that he is going to dodge, shoot or feed because time is of the essence.
In MLL, guys play angles, and if you can take away the guy’s angle, you’re taking away the guy’s shot. All he can do from there is pass it. I like to play body the entire time. (Sellers, the 2012 USILA Division III Defenseman of the Year at Salisbury, has played for the Rochester Rattlers and Chesapeake Bayhawks.)
My Toughest
Assignment John Grant Jr. His combination of size, athleticism and stick skills make him one of the toughest guys to cover, especially from “X.” Even if you take away his shooting angle, he can go behind the back or around the world just to increase his angle.
After I decrease his angle, that’s when I like to get a little slap on his hands or a lift to dislodge the next pass. He’ll throw it out of bounds or at a guy’s feet. You can cause a turnover that way.
A Publication of US Lacrosse
If you want to stop Grant, you have to stop him before he even gets to the goal line, because a guy like that, as soon as he gets one yard above GLE, he can get a shot off pretty much anywhere.
My Core
Workout Take four abdominal or oblique
exercises that you like to do and super-set them with planks. Start with 50 bicycle crunches. then planks for 60 seconds. Do 20 leg lifts, and then go back into the planks. That gives you a good burn and develops every aspect of the core.
>> MY BERKMAN STORY
[Hall of Fame Salisbury coach Jim Berkman] deserves every award he gets. He runs his program like a well-oiled machine. Players feed off his work ethic.
After he had a minor heart attack during 2012, my senior season, I texted him a couple days later asking him how he was feeling, if there was anything I could do. He texted me back, “Make sure you watch fi lm for this game, and get the other guys to watch it too.” He was in the hospital. The guy never runs out of motivation. — compiled by Corey McLaughlin
March 2014 >> LACROSSE MAGAZINE 77
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