FOGO Fast Break

Verified · checked against LaxLibrary and Lax Goalie Rat, with the NCAA rules, Xcelerate Lacrosse, Lacrosse For Dummies and The Boston Globe

The play, beat by beat

1FOGO carriesPoint (Top of the L) cuts to Top Right
2FOGO carriesTheir Top of the Triangle slides to the ball (Rotate)
3FOGO passes to Point (Top of the L)Their Right Pipe slides
4Point (Top of the L) passes to Far PipeFar Pipe cuts
5Far Pipe shoots from the right islandTheir Left Pipe slides

Coaching points

The face-off man has it and comes down the goalie's top-left. Attack, read him: set the L on the side away from him the moment possession is called.
Their wings are sprinting to the hole, so you get a couple of quick passes at most. Run Around the Box fast and shoot when your man is late.
Their face-off man gets up and chases you from behind, looking for one chop at your stick (South Lacrosse; the Loyola chop drill). Keep running and move it when the top man comes.
Your short-stick wing trails the play up top: not everybody runs into the middle (LaxLibrary). Your pole wing stays back at midfield; that is our choice, because the sources do not place him.
Expect their close defense to agree who has point before the whistle and drop into the triangle on the win (Lax Goalie Rat). LaxLibrary drills it by running face-offs into 4v3s at both ends.
His natural pull is to his own left, the goalie's top-right; from there this is the reverse (lefty) 4v3, a different play. Don't sub until it is over.

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Two or more independent sources describe every step of it. Verified · checked against LaxLibrary and Lax Goalie Rat, with the NCAA rules, Xcelerate Lacrosse, Lacrosse For Dummies and The Boston Globe.

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Coaching points

The face-off man has it and comes down the goalie's top-left. Attack, read him: set the L on the side away from him the moment possession is called.

Their wings are sprinting to the hole, so you get a couple of quick passes at most. Run Around the Box fast and shoot when your man is late.

Their face-off man gets up and chases you from behind, looking for one chop at your stick (South Lacrosse; the Loyola chop drill). Keep running and move it when the top man comes.

Your short-stick wing trails the play up top: not everybody runs into the middle (LaxLibrary). Your pole wing stays back at midfield; that is our choice, because the sources do not place him.

Expect their close defense to agree who has point before the whistle and drop into the triangle on the win (Lax Goalie Rat). LaxLibrary drills it by running face-offs into 4v3s at both ends.

His natural pull is to his own left, the goalie's top-right; from there this is the reverse (lefty) 4v3, a different play. Don't sub until it is over.