ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT
EARLY RETURNS
Ever wonder what happens when you take a group of skilled and experienced 11- and 12-year old players and have them play both cross-field and full-field lacrosse games? We reached out to the Lutherville- Timonium (Md.) Recreation Council and invited teams to our new headquarters to test out two versions of the game.
• Using 20-minute running clock games, in the boys’ event the biggest difference came in shots and goals, with 27 shots and 10 goals in cross-field versus 17 shots and five goals in full-field. There also were more dodging opportunities (33-21).
• There were a similar number of touches in the games (102-106), although the better players tended to dominate a little more in the full-field game. Of 27 players that recorded stats, 14 had more touches in the cross-field game, 10 had more in the full-field game and three had the same.
• In the cross-field game, 84 percent of passes connected as compared to 68 percent in the full-field game, a number largely driven by desperation passes trying to clear the ball against the ride.
• One big difference in the girls’ games was a higher percentage of passes connected (86 percent to 78) for the full-field game, and slightly more touches (91 to 81). A big reason for this was the teams going into their standard offenses and passing the ball back-and-forth up top with little defensive pressure. The tighter confines of the cross- field game did not allow the teams to run the offenses they were used to running.
THE WHYS OF MULTI-SPORT PARTICIPATION
BY KATE LEAVELL
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38 US LACROSSE MAGAZINE November 2016
USlacrosse.org
©GANI PINERO; ©JOHN STROHSACKER
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