Quiz Answers:

What does "throw to the box area" mean?

Answer: The ball carrier throws to the stick side of the person he/she is throwing to and the box area is above the shoulder to the side of the head extending beyond the top of the head some and beyond the shoulder some.

The person catching the ball should make a target by having their stick in the box area.

What is the ready position?

Answer: When the person without the ball is in good position to receive a pass; the stick is up in the box area making a good target for the passer.

What is the correct position of your feet and legs when playing defense?

Answer: Very similar to a linebacker or basketball player on defense; feet spread side by side, knees bent to react and lower the center of gravity.

What is the correct stick position when playing defense on the ball carrier?

Answer: Stick straight out in front or to the stick side of the player being guarded, keeping about a stick’s distance between the ball carrier and keep the stick about waist to mid-numbers height.

What is THE most important aspects to playing good defense?

Answer: Feet position and foot movement (but don’t lung forward with a foot); over playing allows the ball carrier to easily run around the defender.

What do you yell when you get position of a loose ball? Why?

Answer: "Ball", so your other players don’t body or stick contact the other team’s players causing an interference call.

What else should you do once you get possession of a ground ball?

Answer: Look up for an open teammate to pass to.

How does the play of the lacrosse game start?

Answer: Face-off.

What is the stick motion called that helps keep the ball in your stick?

Answer: Cradling.

When you're about to receive a pass thrown to you, aside from being ready and looking the ball in, what else should you do?

Answer: Be in the ready position/make a target/head of your stick in the box area (above your shoulder/side of your head).

What are examples of poor sportsmanship?

Answer:

• Yelling at a teammate for making a bad play.
• Auguring with an official.
• Taunting or over celebrating a goal or good play.
• Throwing your stick when disgusted or disappointed over something.

What are examples of good sportsmanship?

Answer:

• Telling a teammate who just made a bad play not to worry about it or some other positive comment to pick them up.
• Don’t get completely down when you lose a game; it is just a game and if you played hard and tried hard you should be proud regardless of results or outcome.
• High five a teammate who scored a goal.
• If you score and got help or an assist from a teammate, complement them for the assist or their effort.

What are some aspects to throwing well?

Answer:

• Slide your top hand down some first.
• Top hand makes motion like throwing a baseball; bottom hand pull in; use shoulder, elbow and lots of wrist.

Name some illegal things that cause a penalty to be called by an official?

Answer:

• Tripping.
• Hitting, body checking, pushing or running into a player from behind them.
• Slashing.
• Cross-checking.
• Hitting below the waist.
• Interference (body or stick checking a player who doesn’t have the ball when either the ball is in possession or the ball is more than 5 yards away from the contact.

Is an official always right?

Answer: Yes!

 

Extra Credit Clinic Questions

Can you hockey slap a ground ball in the goal for a legal goal?

Answer: Yes.

What is a flip pass?

Answer: Holding the stick with ball out to your side, head of stick facing straight up, toss the ball easy over to a teammates stick which is in a similar position and near your stick. Usually the ball carrier has his body between a defender and the stick and ball which is off to the side.

When playing defense, what is generally the best distance to keep between you and a ball carrier?

Answer: Stick length.

What is the area inside the circle around a goal called?

Answer: The crease area or goal crease.

Who is allowed inside the circle area around a goal?

Answer: The goalie and any player on his/her defensive half of the field.

What is the size of a field lacrosse goal?

Answer: 6’ x 6"

What does a "V" cut mean and when is it used?

Answer: To break loose/get open to receive a pass when covered closely by a defender cut in a quickly break out. This will briefly give you separation and space from the defender.

Which shot location on goal has the highest percentage of scoring in lacrosse: high shot, low shot, bounce shot?

Answer: Bounce shot!

Name some aspects of lacrosse that are like basketball?

Answer:

• Good defensive position or stance are the same (feet parallel, knees bent, ready to shuffle left, shuffle right or back pedal).
• On defense, keeping your body between the offensive player and the goal.
• On offense, picking away from the ball; picking the ball carrier’s defender; pick and roll.

Name some aspects of lacrosse that are like soccer?

Answer:

• Clearing the ball when a goalie gets possession of the ball.
• Both played on a large field.
• Both are played with a goal and ball where getting the ball in the goal is awarded 1 point.
• Lots of running in both.
• Getting open for a pass is similar in both sports (v-cutting; getting in a passing lane or open area).

Name some aspects of lacrosse that are like hockey?

Answer:

• Man-up/man-down (power play/short-handed) when a penalty is called.
• Being able to play behind the goal.
• Midfielders are substituted like hockey lines.

Name some aspects of lacrosse that are like football?

Answer:

1. A linebackers stance and foot movement is similar to a lacrosse player playing defense.
1. A running back who makes a cut to reverse direction is similar to a lacrosse ball carrier doing a split dodge past a defender.
1. When a football carrier plants a foot and rolls the other direction past a defender is like a roll dodge in lacrosse.
1. Throwing a football to a receiver running out for a pass is like a lacrosse ball carrier throwing a lead pass to a teammate who is looking to make an over the shoulder catch.
1. Going out for a pass (inside catch or over the shoulder catch).

What is the minimum number of players we must keep on the defensive half of the field at all times to avoid an offside penalty?

Answer: 4. Usually the goalie and the 3 defensive players, but any 4 will do. So a defensemen running up a ball can clear it over the mid-line if a middie stays back on the defensive side. When the defensemen returns to the defensive half, then the middie back can go over the mid-line.

What does "fake high, shoot low mean"? How do you fake a shot?

Answer: Flipping/directing a ball on the ground to a teammate by using the top corner of the stick. You place the stick down behind the ball and kind of take a little hockey-like wrist shot to direct the ball to a teammate who is usually outside "the pile". You can also use the eef method to take a shot; usually taken when a shot rebounds off the goalie out in front of the crease.

What is a "ding" in Lacrosse?

Answer: A dent in a lacrosse shaft. ….of course the old wooden sticks didn’t ding!

What is a "banana"?