Man-Down Sag

Verified in part · checked against Achieve Lacrosse and the IWLCA drill book (Mary Washington), with US Lacrosse and Virginia’s Jessy Morgan

The play, beat by beat

1. 1Their attacker passes to their midfielderTop Right slides
2. 2Their midfielder passes to their midfielderLeft Side rotates
3. 3Their midfielder feeds their attackerMiddle crashes to the ball
4. 4Their attacker passes to their midfielderTop Left recovers

Coaching points

• Man-down defense looks like a zone. Sag to the 8, don't extend too far out, and always mark the ball.
• Mark the ball, the two adjacent passes, the middle and the low player. Leave the girl farthest from the ball open. One of you always has two: say it.
• Any pass into the middle: yell Crash and collapse on her. Then check back out of the 8: the 3-second rule still counts.
• Don't chase the ball back. Use up time until your player comes out. From Achieve Lacrosse and the IWLCA drill book (Mary Washington's crash drill), with US Lacrosse.
• Coach's variation, from Virginia's Jessy Morgan: set at 45 degrees on the ball to push her out of the middle, keep the ball from getting behind the cage, and force it back the way it came.

How it was checked

A standard play the sources back, but a step or detail of it rests on a single source or on our own reading of them. Verified in part · checked against Achieve Lacrosse and the IWLCA drill book (Mary Washington), with US Lacrosse and Virginia’s Jessy Morgan.

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