PLANT
Plant your foot where GLE meets the crease and the diagonal line of the 8-meter.
HANDS
Once you get to GLE for a low-angle shot, it’s all about having your hands free. Move your top hand down lower so you have more places to shoot — far side, near side, high or low.
DEFENDER
Be aware of your defender. Make sure you have that space to take a shot.
PROTECT
Protect the ball from your defender. If you leave your stick out ahead of you and she goes for that check, do a roll dodge. Most defenders will play just body. If you beat her outright, a slide’s coming. Get that shot off before the defense collapses on you.
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here’s so much tradition surrounding Syracuse lacrosse. I love being a part of it. So many great players – Katie Rowan, Michelle Tumolo, Alyssa Murray, Becca Block, Liz Hogan. All played for U.S. and helped change this program.
WOMEN ON THE RISE
The women’s game is becoming faster and more creative. It’s good to watch how the men play and learn some of the things that they do with their sticks so we can do that as well. That’s why it’s fun to play for Coach Gait too. He teaches us what guys can do, and we do it in our practices. He’s the one always talking about hitching, burying and being deceptive.
GAIT WAY
Gary Gait has helped transform the women’s game and made it so fun to be able to play and be a part of it. He’s really changed our program, along with Regy Thorpe. Those two have really changed the way the
Syracuse program was and has made it so successful. I’m really lucky to have them as my coaches.
GOALIE » If you can get
the goalie to dip low and her stick follows her body, that’s when you know you can shoot it high above her helmet in the top-shelf area.
» Look where you’re shooting. Square up to the cage. If your hips are parallel to GLE, you might not have as much accuracy.
HIPS
» If I’m coming around the left side and I’m shooting with my left hand, it’s almost the reverse of what you’re taught. I actually shoot off my left foot.
FEET ARMS
» Get your elbows and shoulders off your body. When trying to bait the goalie to go low, I keep my
shoulders lower. Extend out with your stick and bring your top hand down so your arms, hands and wrists are doing the work. Snap your wrists around the goalie to throw a hitch.
October 2015 » LACROSSE MAGAZINE 55
©JOHN STROHSACKER (GG); ©GREG WALL (MT)
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