Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis!

Reading The Defense

I've written a lot about the incredible benefits of the Principles Based Offense with none more important than the opportunity for coaches to prioritize and focus on arguably the most important part of any offense: Reading the Defense.  In traditional offenses, coaches must spend time, installing, teaching and repping, all of the different sets, motions or plays in the playbook.  Once the players know the offenses, the coaches can begin teaching the various "Reads" of how opposing teams will defend against each set/motion/play.   The advantage of the Principles Based Offense is a coach can invest more time in teaching how to read the defense because there is no wasted time in remembe...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis!  

Podcasts This Week

Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast with Holy Cross Head coach JL Reppert

JL is one of the brightest most interesting coaches in all of Division I lacrosse.  With a late start in coaching due to his 11 years in the USMC after graduating from The United States Naval Academy, Coach Reppert has risen through the ranks to become a Head Coach at the age of 42.  With a wealth of experience in the military combined with incredible coaching experiences along the way, JL is primed to make Holy Cross a contender.  I think you will love this podcast!  Click here to listen!

Inside The 8 Podcast with Drexel Head Coach Jill Batcheller

 Check out this week's episode with Jill Batcheller, the head coach...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis!  

Putting Your Big-Little Invert On Steroids

Rolling a 3rd player behind the net on Big-Little Inverts  is a simple and incredibly effective way to create a very challenging situation for the defense.  In this 3man action behind, the law of "Addition by Subtraction" is in full effect, opening up the middle and leaving a 3v3 in front of the net.  

• Single invert, a slide leaves 4 to cover 5
• Big-Little invert, slide leaves 3 to cover 4
• 3man Action, a slide leaves 2 to cover 3

3man actions create complexity of communication and decision making for the defense yet are surprisingly easy for the offense.  Think about this, you're on defense, your man is picking for the ball and you say, "Johnnie, pick ...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis!  

 
Podcast With ASU Head Coach Tim McCormack

In this podcast, Colleen and Tim discuss the culture at ASU and
how he tries to make practice the best part of everyone's day, what he learned from working with Kelly Amonte Hiller & Scott Hiller at Northwestern, the ASU Offense and how they are scoring so many goals, his favorite drills, how he gets players to move off-ball, the
ASU defense, goalie and midfield units, their riding style and draw unit. He also shares his recruiting advice for high school players. Enjoy!

Click here to listen!

54 Tight Drill 

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis!  

Inside The 8 Podcast with UNC Head Coach, Jenny Levy

Spain Look

I love doing 3v3's on a side.  I think this environment is incredibly beneficial development...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis!  

 Colleen's Corner: The Penn Charter Motion Offense

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis! 

Podcasts This Week

The Inside the 8 Podcast with Colleen Magarity this week we focus on college lacrosse recruiting and the topic is "Reclassing."   This phenomenon occurs all the time in men's lacrosse and has been happening in women's lacrosse as well, but now with the NCAA Dead Period having effected so many kids' recruitment combined with the NCAA granting an extra year of eligibility to four years of college athletes , we will likely see more of it.  Colleen and I go into depth on how it works, how college coaches view Reclassing, and we cover frequently asked questions.  Click Here to listen to this podcast!

Below is the who, what, when, where, why of Reclassing

• Who: athletes who feel like th
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Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis! 

Podcasts This Week

In Season Podcast with PLL Chaos Coach Andy Towers is a must listen if you're into college lacrosse and want unfettered analysis and tomfoolery!  AT thinks Carolina is the best team in the land, followed by Duke, Maryland and Georgetown.  We do this podcast with no script or plan, our preparation is watching games as we can between us, reading box scores, and our general knowledge of the coaches, players and match ups.  This unscripted model allows pure authenticity and humor to result.   Click Here to check it out!

Inside The 8 Podcast with University Colorado Assistant Coach Nicole Levy, is one of my all time favorite podcasts!  Nicole is remarkably thoughtful and poised fo...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis! Click here to read my blog.

Podcasts This Week

Inside the 8 Podcast with USC Head Coach Lindsey Munday and Colleen Magarity was an awesome conversation with one of the great players of all. time who has become one of the best coaches in Division I women's lacrosse!  I think you will love learning about the way she blends team culture and the development of the mental side of the game, the USC zone defense, offensive principles, what "Game Like" means, and college lacrosse recruiting.  Click here to listen!

A Lacrosse Philosophy Podcast with Inside Lacrosse Terry Foy, the smartest guy in lacrosse, will be a great listen as we touch on Division I men'a lacrosse story lines in 2021, Michael Sowers, how ...

Welcome to "A Lacrosse Weekend" my weekly compilation of thoughts, ideas, stories, myths, truths, about the great game of lacrosse. I hope you enjoy it!   

If you are a men's or women's lacrosse player, coach, or parent, I think you will love the weekly content, videos, and analysis! Click here to read my blog.

Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcasts 

 Lars Tiffany, Head Coach Virginia,  LT and I were captains of the '89 Brown Lacrosse team and have been great friends through college and through our days as colleagues in college lacrosse and beyond.  I love the rapport Lars and I have and the conversations we are now recording on podcasts are similar to the Lacrosse Philosophy conversations we have been having for 30 years!  One of the amazing things about Lars is he is very open minded and is continually learning and evolving.  This trait is glaringly obvious in this podcast where we discuss defensive footwork and how two days before the season he completely shifted his teaching paradigm in ter...