Add a Little Magic to 3V2..
Andy Shay, Yale
In our recent podcast with one of my all time favorites, Coach Andy Shay from Yale, he added a little Magic to a 3V2 lacrosse drill we have loved for years! Going back to his time with another great coach, Dan Sheehan, LeMoyne, he offered a few nice variations on 3V2 Lacrosse Drill that we got from Coach Sheehan back in 2009, and is still one of the most popular and effective drills in our library. Perhaps like you at the time, I had run the same 3V2 formats, very traditional, very predictable and mostly very boring.
Now many of the NCAA coaches we talk to run this 3V2 from LeMoyne in a way that is always interesting and different, they emulate four different game scenarios in terms of location, and work on ground balls and different looks in the process. That is why they are great coaches, and I am but an old website coach.
The original drawing below shows the four locations, but the entire team is at station 1 then the entire group moves to station 2 and so on…
The Traditional Four- Side 3V2
It is the four varied locations in this drill that make it work; the key is the locations. (#1) The players line up in the ‘alley’ facing the field between the restraining line and the sideline. They are staggered, one offense, one defense, one offense, one defense, one offense and so on. Coach rolls a ball off to the side for an outside line offensive player in the line of five.