Lacrosse · Shooting · Ages 13-15

Lacrosse Shooting Practice Plan for 13 to 15 Year Olds

At 13 to 15, shooting splits into its two professions: TIME-AND-ROOM (the wound-up outside shot with a runway, hips loaded, placement at pace) and IN-TIGHT (the crease craft: fakes before finishes, quick sticks, releases varied so goalies read nothing). FAKES become half the goal-scoring skill (the hitch that drops a goalie's hands is worth ten mph), and everything logs: percentages by mode, fake grades, release counts.

This is a 75-minute workout with stick, balls, goal, and a feeder for two blocks. Release variety arrives as chosen tools (three-quarter for angles, the occasional sidearm WITH placement honesty) built on the overhand base. The teenage truth for the wall: goalies at this level save shots they read, and the whole workout is the manufacture of unreadable.

Practice Plan

Backyard Workout: Two Professions, One Liar

Time-and-room power with addresses, in-tight craft with fakes that drop hands, and releases varied past reading. Goalies save what they read; be illegible.

Warmup · 10 minutes

Both Engines Ramp

Duration10 minEquipmentstick, balls, goal

Standing engine shots, four sweeps each direction, four quick-sticks each hand. The cold ten-shot percentage opens the ledger, because games start cold.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Cold count first. The game doesn't warm you up."

Block 1: Time and Room · 25 minutes

Loaded Outside Shots

Duration13 minEquipmentstick, balls, goal

The wound-up profession: three-step runways into full-engine shots from honest range, hips coiling on the approach, overhand and three-quarter releases both, LOW pipes and far corners called. Twelve shots, placement-at-pace logged. Power with an address is the whole job description; power without one is a rumor.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Coil on the runway, uncoil through the address. Loud AND placed."

The Hitch Before

Duration12 minEquipmentstick, balls, goal

Deception joins the outside shot: the HITCH (the shot-fake's half-motion freeze) before the real release, dropping the imagined goalie's hands, then the low finish. Ten reps, the fake graded by an honest watcher (would it move YOU?). One committed hitch outscores five mph everywhere teenagers play.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Start the lie, freeze the beat, bury the truth low."

Block 2: In Tight · 25 minutes

Fake-and-Finish Menus

Duration13 minEquipmentstick, balls, goal, feeder

The crease profession: feeds caught close with the menu drilled: high-fake-low-finish (the classic), low-fake-high (its mirror), and the east-west swing (the stick crossing the goalie's face before the far-side tuck). Four of each, fakes fully sold, finishes placed. Crease goals at this level are fakes wearing shots.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Sell the first story completely. The goal buys the second."

Release Variety Rounds

Duration12 minEquipmentstick, balls, goal, feeder

Unreadability drilled: quick-stick finishes, one-cradle-then-shoot, the same catch answered overhand then three-quarter then (placement honest) sidearm, feeds mixed high and low. Twelve finishes, variety AND placement logged together. The goalie reading nothing is the profession's whole product.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Same catch, different answers. Never the same one twice in a row."

Block 3: Gassed Percentages · 10 minutes

Tired Shooter Rounds

Duration10 minEquipmentstick, balls, goal, 2 markers

The fourth-quarter simulator: shuttle sprint, then five shots (two outside, two in-tight, one quick-stick), corners called, hits logged fresh-versus-gassed. Two rounds. Games are decided by tired shooters; the gap between columns is the season's honest project.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Tired is when placement either exists or doesn't. Log which."

Finish · 5 minutes

The Ledger

Duration5 minEquipmentthe log

Read and dated: cold percentage, time-and-room hits, fake grades, variety counts, gassed columns. One championship sequence (hitch, low finish) as the curtain, roared.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Books honest, one liar's goal for the road."

What to watch today: fakes losing their commitment as fatigue arrives. Tired teenagers abbreviate the hitch (the half-lie nobody buys) and wonder where the goals went. The graded standard survives the gassed rounds: every fake fully sold or not attempted. Half-lies are gifts to goalies; the ledger's gassed column knows.

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Common questions

What is the time-and-room versus in-tight split?

The sport's two shooting professions: outside shots with a runway (power coiled, placement at pace, the hitch before) versus crease finishes off feeds (fakes, quick sticks, varied releases). They train differently and both log separately: most teenagers are lopsided, and the ledger shows which profession needs the hour.

How do fakes get trained without a real goalie?

Commitment plus an honest watcher: the hitch and fake-finish menus executed fully (stick, eyes, and body all telling the first story) and graded on whether they would move a human. The imagined goalie works because the skill is the seller's, not the buyer's: committed lies transfer; abbreviations never do.

When does sidearm become legitimate?

As a CHOSEN tool at this age, built on the overhand base, deployed for angle problems (wraparounds, low boxes) and held to the same placement logging as everything else. The order matters: overhand built the accuracy, the engine built the power, and sidearm arrives as vocabulary, not identity.

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