| Coaching Girls' Lacrosse: A Baffled Parent's Guide
| Lacrosse is one of the nation's fastest-growing youth sports, and the girls' game is overtaking the boys'. Played with different rules and tactics, girls' lacrosse requires its own specialized guidebook. Friendly and encouraging, Coaching Girls' Lacrosse is the first book to provide the fundamentals every unprepared parent needs to teach and motivate a team of 6- to 12-year-olds.
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| Lacrosse For Dummies
| Lacrosse For Dummies is the ultimate guide for fans and players of this rapidly growing sport alike. The book offers everything the beginning player needs to know, from the necessary equipment to the basic rules of the game, with explanations of the women's game and the indoor game, too. It also offers a wealth of information for the experienced player, including winning offensive and defensive strategies, along with skill-building exercises and drills. Finally, there's information on how...More
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| Winning Women's Lacrosse
| The sport's best instruction from the sport's top coach! In Winning Women's Lacrosse, renowned coach Kelly Amonte Hiller shares the expertise that has developed some of the game's premier players, and have made her team a perennial powerhouse on the national scene. Winning Women's Lacrosse covers it all. Through expert instruction, coaching tips, and one-of-a-kind insights into the sport, you'll learn to-develop the individual offensive and defensive skills of the game,-master t...More
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| Shotokan's Secret: The Hidden Truth Behind Karate's Fighting Origins
| This is the first book to dissect the lore and reveal the origins and purpose of the art of shotokan. It describes how karate was invented by the world's only unarmed bodyguards to protect the world's only unarmed king against Americans. In 1853, before the American Civil War, the king of Okinawa was caught in a confrontation between the shogun's implacable samurai and an invading force of U.S. Marines. Trapped between katana and bayonets, the king's unarmed guards faced impossible odds and narr...More
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| Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
| What began that night shocked Duke University and Durham, North Carolina. And it continues to captivate the nation: the Duke lacrosse team members' alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them. In this ever-deepening American tragedy, Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats...More
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| Women's Lacrosse: A Guide for Advanced Players and Coaches
| Women’s lacrosse is one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States. As stick technology advances, athleticism increases, and rules and regulations adapt, even the most experienced players and coaches need to keep current on all aspects of the game. Janine Tucker, head women’s lacrosse coach at the Johns Hopkins University, and Maryalice Yakutchik, a writer and former lacrosse player, here supply the ultimate guide to women’s lacrosse. Each chapter provides a detailed explanation of...More
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| The Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Lacrosse: From Basic Fundamentals to Advanced Player Skills and Team Strategies
| Within the past decade, lacrosse has seen explosive growth on the elementary, junior and high school, and college levels, rapidly becoming one of America's most popular playing sports. Lifelong lacrosse player and coach Daniel Morris, along with noted author Michael Morris, distill the essence of this exciting, fast-paced game into one compact volume, teaching everything the beginning and intermediate coach needs to know about the rules, equipment, skills, and drills of this venerable game. Unli...More
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| Lacrosse: Technique and Tradition, The Second Edition of the Bob Scott Classic
| For thirty years Bob Scott's Lacrosse has been the ultimate guide to the "fastest game on two feet," explaining the men's game at its highest level and promoting the Johns Hopkins philosophy, which has become synonymous with lacrosse excellence. In this long-awaited updated edition, Coach Dave Pietramala, whose Blue Jays won the 2007 and 2005 NCAA men's lacrosse championships, and Neil Grauer, a Hopkins graduate and veteran writer on lacrosse, among other subjects, have reworked every ch...More
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| Lacrosse 2012 Wall (calendar)
| You've never seen Lacrosse like this before - photos that put you right in the middle of the action! Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in North America. And here's the calendar for lacrosse fans everywhere. Every month you'll get an inside look at the fastest game on two feet. The bone-jarring hits. The 100 mph shots. It's no wonder that the enthusiasm for lacrosse is rising exponentially.
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| Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training: Lacrosse)
| The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse is the most comprehensive and up-to-date lacrosse-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round lacrosse-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.No other lacrosse book to date has been so well designed, so...More
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| Coaching Youth Lacrosse
| This new edition of Coaching Youth Lacrosse is part of the improved generation of the American Sport Education Program's (ASEP) Coaching Youth Sports series. A widely respected and highly popular series, this is the best collection of youth sport-specific guides, which are grounded in positive coaching principles.ASEP, the nation's No. 1 coaching education program, developed Coaching Youth Lacrosse to provide coaches with both an explanation of their role and concrete in...More
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| The Spirit in the Stick
| The Spirit in the Stick is an historical fiction/fantasy story centered on the careers of Navy’s Jimmy Lewis ’66 and brothers Doug and Jack Turnbull of Johns Hopkins of the 20’s and 30’s. The book traces the history of an ancient Native American lacrosse stick as it is passed down through several generations, dating to the eighteenth century. The most recent recipient, a young boy named Robbie Jones, receives the stick from Jimmy Lewis and quickly becomes aware of the stick’s special p...More
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| Lacrosse: Fundamentals for Winning (Sports Illustrated Winner's Circle Books)
| Eight-time national championship coach David Urick shows players and coaches the pathways to lacrosse success!
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| The Beast In The Crease: A Lacrosse Goalie's Guidebook
| Fritz Hoffecker has been a lacrosse goalie since 1962--at high school in Maryland, as a starter at Princeton, and as a semi-legendary club goalie for 40 years. In The Beast in the Crease, he shares everything he's learned about how to be a great goalie. The book covers many subjects, such as: Attitude, Equipment, Focus, Watching the Ball, Stance, Stepping to the Ball, Stickwork, Clearing, Goalie Conditioning, Man-down, Fast Breaks, 1-on-1s, Screens, Baiting, Drills, Fritz' Personal Techniques a...More
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| Flamethrowers - Guardians of the game: A lacrosse story
| The first team sport was given to the First Nations by the Creator. The first players called it “The Creator’s Game”. Flamethrowers, guardians of the game, were given special sticks by the Creator to teach and watch over the sport. But there was a betrayal, a Nation lost, and the Creator removed the Flamethrowers from the earth. But they left something behind… Kenny lives in a mining town located on the iron Range in Minnesota. His entire family plays hockey. Only one problem f...More
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| Lacrosse Goaltending II
| The authoritative book on how to coach and play field lacrosse goalie. Wih sections on basics, attitude, advanced play, drills and a unique new section on grading the goalie and planning improvements, Lax Goaltending II is unique in an already exciting and unique sport
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| Youth Lacrosse Drills, Plays, and Games Handbook
| This is a book for youth lacrosse coachesIt has drills to build your teams speed, coordination, agility, and fundamental lacrosse skills.It has offensive and defensive plays covering all phases of the game. There are 94 different drills, all numbered to help your team. There are 96 different plays, all numbered, covering all phases of the game. There are 7 different games for your team to play, that are directly related, and involved with their learning.
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| Coaching Youth Lacrosse: Includes 125 Drills
| An introduction to the fundamentals of coaching both boys' and girls' lacrosse. This guide contains 125 drills and many illustrations and shows techniques for teaching fundamental lacrosse skills step-by-step - what to teach and how to teach it.
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| Coaching Lacrosse For Dummies
| Thinking about volunteering as a lacrosse coach? Even if you’ve never done it before, you can lead your team to a safe and exciting season. Coaching Lacrosse For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to get the score on coaching youth lacrosse with loads of tips and plenty of offensive and defensive drills.This friendly guide helps you grasp the basics and take charge on the field. You’ll get lots of expert advice on teaching essential skills to different age groups, determining posi...More
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| Carl Runk's Coaching Lacrosse: Strategies, Drills, & Plays from an NCAA Tournament Winning Coach's Playbook
| From one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history, the only total lacrosse instructional for high-end championship play at every level Filled with his beloved personal style and know-how, Carl Runk’s Coaching Lacrosse goes beyond X’s and O’s to give you expert guidance for inspiring excellence in your team. Packed with illustrations and diagrams, this handbook covers all the fundamentals and equips you with drills and strategies for firing up ...More
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