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Your edge // players


SHOOT LIKE SERGIO


AS TOLD TO COREY MCLAUGHLIN


One of the top players in college lacrosse today and a projected early Major League Lacrosse draft pick next year — Notre Dame junior midfielder Sergio Perkovic — opened up to Lacrosse Magazine about how he shoots the ball so darn hard. He’s been clocked at 108 miles per hour. Coaches will be happy: It’s fundamentals. Perkovic had 75 career goals for the Irish as of this mid-season. He famously scored five in the fourth quarter against Denver in last year’s final four and tickled the twine another five times in the 2014 title game versus Duke. Here he describes how a midfield rip from earlier in the 2016 season against Georgetown came to be.


CROW HOP


The first thing is to crow-hop into the shot, to get your base wide and your legs into your shot. This is the middle/ end of the crow hop in this picture.


FOOTWORK


You also want to point your front foot toward the target, whatever that may be. You can see that here, too.


JUST CALL ME SERG


It’s cool to have a nickname. The Motor City Hit Man is a funny one. It goes back to me being from Detroit. Kids like it a lot. As far as Drago [from Ivan Drago in the “Rocky” movie franchise] it’s funny. Kids on my team make fun of it sometimes. At the same time, other people mistakenly think I’m Russian because of the comparison to Drago. In fact, I’m not Russian, I’m Albanian. They are both funny. Most people, my friends, just call me Serg.


MY FASTEST SHOT


I was coaching at a tournament last summer and all the kids wanted me to shoot in the fastest shot. I took this big windup with a


kid’s stick with a ton of whip. I think I shot 108 or 109.


CHIN ON YOUR SHOULDER


One thing I always practiced growing up was having your chin on your shoulder. That kind of helps you get your head around and looking at your target. You’ll be seeing where you are shooting and your whole body can go toward that part of the net. It starts in the beginning.


50 LACROSSE MAGAZINE »MAY 2016


ELBOW EXTENSION


In the take back, I’m starting to get my elbows extended out farther. Whenever I’m practicing, I’m making sure I’m getting as much extension as possible. The more extension you have, the harder your shot.


A Publication of US Lacrosse


©CECIL COPELAND


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