Session Plans & Unit Plans

A comprehensive session plan to develop confidence in dodging, recap critical points, progress decision making and encourage accuracy.

It includes detailed coaching points and questioning to help players to apply their learning.

While the session plan focuses on attacking skills, there are still coaching points for defenders to consider.

There are lots of progressions as well as final attack v defence game around the goal to apply learning. It ends with an excellent plenary to consider the purpose of dodging and key points for defence as well as attack

This is an example of a 10 week curriculum plan for Y7 Lacrosse.

It builds on a previous term of stick skills and introdcution to the game, focusing on accuracy and application  of concepts in small sided games.

This session plan takes you through the principles of unit attack and how to achieve chaos to confuse and space to move defenders.

It is more of a conceptual document that maps out how to approach consolidating the principles and relies on players already knowing attacking partnerships.

It uses some of the amazing Match Play cards from The Coaching Lab - https://thecoachinglab.org/

This programme is intended to help you build the core skills that all good goalkeepers have.

Fundamental skills covered:

• Footwork

• Hand-eye coordination

• Explosiveness

• Stickwork

This is a really comprehensive collection of goalie drills that take players through warm up drills, hand and footwork drills and onto saves and clearing drills.

There are lots of diagrams, photos and key coaching points. Use as little or as much as you need.

This is a great resource to help you introduce on and off ball defence. It includes great coaching points as well as essential drills.

• Defensive Bucket Drill

• D Side Shuffle Shuttle

• Stonehill 1v1

• Feed/Shot/1v1

• Back-to-back 1v1

• UCONN 1v1 

A great resource to help you plan how to introduce the game to beginners. 

• Game overview

• Field set up

• Positions

• Draw

• Basic skills and drills

• Holding the stick/cradling

• Ground balls

• Throwing

• Catching

• Offensive Concepts and drills

• Dodging

• Shooting

• Spacing

This is a great session plan from Caitlin Walters (SHSK, Wales U20) on teaching pick and rolls. She breaks the skill down to coach the concept and then applies it in game play situations. 

Clearly laid out and explained, it includes coaching points and key questions, as well as a contigency plan.

Use this field diagram template to create your own drills or make notes on others' drills. 

Below is a practice plan template that you can use to assist you with planning your sessions.

Girls' lacrosse defense is all about communication, positioning, and teamwork. In this video, Rachel Frantz (CEO Crossroads Lacrosse) breaks down the key defensive strategies used in the girls’ game—from marking players and protecting the 8-meter arc to effective slides and double teams. Designed for parents who want to better understand what they’re seeing on the field, this session highlights how strong team defense is built and how players work together to shut down scoring opportunities. Gain a clearer perspective on your player’s role and the skills they’re developing every time they take the field.

Girls' lacrosse offense is all about movement, spacing, and smart decision-making. In this video, Rachel Frantz (CEO Crossroads Lacrosse) breaks down the fundamentals of offensive play—from setting up scoring opportunities and executing plays to reading the defense and making quick passes. Designed for parents, this session explains how players work together to create chances and control the pace of the game. Whether your player is a feeder, cutter, or shooter, you’ll gain a better understanding of their role and how offense drives the excitement of the sport.

This 30-minute wall ball routine is designed for women’s lacrosse players looking to improve their stick skills. The focus is on enhancing passing accuracy, hand-eye coordination, quick stick movements, and overall stick control.

This is a fantastic resource that focuses on the phases of attack, developing the two player game and three player motion into team attack.

It includes plays, stick handling ideas and attacking group drills.

This is an excellent 11 week collection of sessions plans, covering conditioning, stick skills and game concepts.

Each session contains:

* Objectives

* Difficulty

* Time allocated for each section

* Full warm up and drill content with diagrams

* Progressions and final game application suggestions