Clearing Lacrosse Drills
28 drills tagged with "Clearing". Use these in your practice plans to build focused, effective sessions.
Pitch and Pursuit
Practice riding long poles to the alley and forcing turnovers or long passes in transition. Defenders ride to the alley, forcing ball carriers into difficult long passes or turnovers. Variation: Send both defenders at once and allow long passes over the attack players. Great for teaching trap or adjusting rides.
Clears after the Shot
Work on clearing breakouts after a shot. Players set up in clearing positions. After a shot, players break to their clear spots and move the ball up the field. Variation: Add a ride with players in different colored pinnies to disrupt clears.
Box reverse
Develop clearing skills and field reversal. 3 defenders start in front of the crease, goalie in cage with the ball. On "Clear," players break out — 2 to one side, 1 to the other. Goalie clears high to the first player, who reverses to the low wing then sprints to the opposite low corner. Low wing swings to the goalie, who clears opposite high. That player throws down to the low wing (who came from the opposite high post), reverses to the goalie, who delivers a final pass to the top opposite corner. Variation: Add a ride to pressure the clears.
2 D Breakout
2 defenders break out from the goal to the box/alleys. The goalie throws a pass to one defender and then they complete 2 over passes before passing to a third defender/midfielder near the midfield line at the opposite box.