Foundations for Successful Lacrosse

with Sue Stimmel,
The Ohio State University Head Women's Lacrosse Coach

To excel in any sport, one must start with the foundations of the sport. In this video, Coach Stimmel, who also excelled as a collegiate player, demonstrates the essential fundamentals necessary to have a competent degree of skills to allow enjoyment and propel you toward becoming a complete lacrosse player. Excellent for beginning-level coaches, players, PE instructors, or anyone looking for a refresher course in the basic skills of the sport. Stimmel uses male and female demonstrators to demonstrate stick basics including: how and where to hold the stick, catching fundamentals, passing fundamentals, checking fundamentals, cradling fundamentals, and wall drills that can be done anywhere to gain confidence in the basic skill areas.

28 minutes. 2001.

with Sue Stimmel,
The Ohio State University Head Women's Lacrosse Coach

This video is ideally suited to help beginning-level players and coaches develop a fundamental understanding of offensive and defensive moves and skills. Coach Stimmel, who also excelled as a player, demonstrates offense basics and shares useful coaching tips for: the roll dodge, face dodge, split dodge, dip dodge, and sword dodge. On defense, Stimmel again provides valuable tips and demonstrates drills that can be done to improve footwork skills and learn where you should be on defense to force the offense to catch in a poor position. After watching this video, you will be ready to take the field with confidence!

30 minutes. 2001.

See all the items in this series!

• Developing Essential Lacrosse Skills
• Developing Essential Offense and Defense Skills