Is he controlling that matchup or do I need to slide? You gotta make the decision quickly. You can go, not go or what I like to call a hedge or fi zz—a fake slide. You take a step or two toward the dodger to make him back off or pull up a bit so your defender catches up. Fake slide two steps and come back to your man.
Who’s Hot?
Ohio Machine and Trilogy Lacrosse defenseman Chad Wiedmaier’s slide-and-recovery tips
>> WHAT I DO TAKE
NOTHING FOR
GRANTED
I traveled to Uganda in 2011 to coach with Fields of Growth. It just slapped perspective on my life. Just to get water on a daily basis is a struggle. When we were in the rainforest, these people have to walk half a mile down the side of a mountain to fi ll up these gallon-water tanks and then walk with them on their shoulders. I did that side-by-side with a woman who couldn’t have been taller than 4-foot-9. She did it with minimal effort. I’m supposed to be an athlete, and I was huffi ng and puffi ng. One player had some pretty serious scars on his face. I found out later he had been abducted as a child soldier. Playing lacrosse brought him away from those experiences.
BIKE THE BRIDGE
Trilogy is in a cool area of New York City I never knew about. I live on Manhattan’s lower east side. We work in DUMBO. It stands for Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass. It’s startup central—so many companies, brands, thinkers and artists. There is no better view of New York than from DUMBO. I just ride my bike over the bridge every morning to get here.
WANT TO BE COACHED
[Ohio Machine coach] Bear Davis was the coach at Robert Morris for a while. I never really knew much about Coach, but I remember checking scores of games and I was like, “God, this Robert Morris team is putting up an absurd amount of points.” We really feel like we have a coach again. Even at the pro level, we want to be coached. We want to feel like someone really cares about what we’re doing. It’s great to be coached again.
MY MULTI- SPORT
ANALOGY
double right away. But usually you tell that player to immediately recover.
A Publication of US Lacrosse
Tell the original defender what you want to do. You can
Sliding to a spot in lacrosse is kind of like a pass in soccer, a linear idea. Sending someone a through-ball downfi eld, you want to put it where they’re going to be, not where they are.
MY WORST MOMENT
Last year (2-12 season) was kind of a drag. The low point was when we lost to Denver by 15 and I ended up scoring on our own goal. Pretty much the bottom of the barrel. I threw it back to our goalie Brian Phipps when he thought I was going to throw it outside the crease. As soon as the ball left my stick, we both had one of those moments like a blockbuster Hollywood fi lm where we’re both screaming, “Noooo.”
>> MY OUTLOOK Toward the end of last year we had something going. We ended up knocking Boston out of the playoffs. Logan [Schuss], Steele [Stanwick] and [Marcus] Holman are pretty awesome. You saw those three guys really jell in that game. That could be special this year.
— compiled by Matt DaSilva May 2014 >> LACROSSE MAGAZINE 75
©JOHN STROHSACKER
©VINNY CARCHIETTA; ©SHUTTERSTOCK
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