4 beats
- Beats
- Carry
- Cut
- Pass
- Double
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Zone defense · Backer Zone
Rover Zone
Verified in part · checked against Georgetown (Ricky Fried) and Denver (Sam Thacker, Liza Kelly)
The play, beat by beat
- 1Their Top Center carries to the top of the 12Rover sags
- 2Their Top Center passes to their Top RightLeft High Defender sags
- 3Their Top Right passes to their Right WingRight High Defender drops
- 4Their Right Wing passes to their Right LowRight Low Defender doubles the ball
Coaching points
- The rover is ball side all the time. She reads the play and sprints side to side in the 8, and steps out of it when nobody is marked so she isn't called for 3 seconds.
- Georgetown's three rules: how far out you play the ball, where you force (outside on both sides when the ball is high; squeeze with the two highs when it is dead center), and who helps (the elbow when the ball is high, the high when it is on the elbow).
- This play uses Georgetown's rules up top and Denver's below the goal line. Georgetown doubles a ball at the top or the elbow inside the 8. Denver pressures below the goal line with two, and the rover anticipates the skip and knocks it down.
- Denver's Liza Kelly on the difference from a backer: her rover isn't playing the ball "unless it's an 'Oh God' situation".
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 Georgetown (Ricky Fried) and Denver (Sam Thacker, Liza Kelly).
