u/The_Gray_Mouser

Went to the Waterdogs game Saturday with my family. My son is a big Sowers fan. We were waiting for my wife and daughter to find us and a nice old man comes over and hands my son a signed Sowers card.

Turns out he is his grandfather and he was handing them out to kids wearing his jersey. He stopped and chatted with us for a few minutes.

Not sure if anyone connected to them reads this but just a big thank you. You made a young kids day. It's all he talked about for the next two days.

Lacrosse makes friends.

Pizza bruh

Any recommendations for me? My daughter is looking to increase her shooting power and accuracy and looking for a higher pocket.

I'm looking for something simple and teachable. I saw Virginia do a great trap play on the Georgetown transition. Looking for something to push the transition and something to stop it.

Looking to put them in end of year gifts etc. Boys and girls. Trying to find a lot of a bunch of stickers.

I've tried various things and it's hit or miss. I'm looking for something that I probably am not thinking about. Does anyone have any secret sauce I might be overlooking

I've played my whole life, up to some lower d2-d3 college. I've been coaching u8-u14 boys the last few years. My daughter got the bug and I got thrown in to coach u12 girls where I have no true 12s. Its me and another dad who played hoops in college. I have a smattering of few 9s, 10s and 11s. I only have four 11s coming back from last year but they didn't play much. It's a small group, only have 14 total. I've been focusing on fundamentals, gbs, passing, catching etc.

We've lost every game this year but TBF we've played some established teams. My daughter is our best player and she's a glue girl, scores 3-5 goals a game, keeps the girls up beat and makes sure they take it all in stride; she's been great, but we just can't put it together in the transition and defense. We get locked down on clears out of d, we can't pass or catch well. We can score but we get scored on a lot.

We do a lot of star drills, partner passing on the move, 3 man, 2v1, shooting, gb drills (relays), 1v1. I've gotten them to understand how to ride on defense but we lack in the sliding area. I can't get them to understand how to transition. We can score and we can hang w good teams but it slowly unravels. My goalie just turned 10, she's gonna be good and I keep her confidence high and she's coachable but she's very green. I have her being taught by a former player.

What else can I do? At this point we have 2-3 games left and end of season tournament where I listed us as developmental so we can try to get a few wins. I came in approaching it like the boys I think. I just want some confidence and to bring them back next year. I was going to setup some stuff this summer on my own outside the club to do some 3v3 mini tournaments w softballs and fiddlesticks. BBQs and water gun fights etc. In the end I just want them to be the best they can be but it starts w me.