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RMLSC 2010 PLAYER EVALUATIONS SCHEDULED
6th grade: Saturday Feb. 20th & 27th from 10am to 12pm at Foothills Indoor Facility
7th grade: Saturday February 20th & 27th 12pm to 2pm at Foothills Indoor Facility
8th grade: Saturday February 20 & 27th 2pm to 4pm Foothills Indoor Facility
Foothills Indoor Facility at Hwy 285 (Hampden) and Kipling
Players should arrive 15 minutes prior to sign in.
PLAYER EVALUATION PROCESS
The purpose of these evaluations is to place individual players with other players that have similar lacrosse skills and athletic ability. The boys' youth league, the CYLA, has three basic divisions or levels of competition: Red (most experienced), White (intermediate experience) and Blue (beginner).
Players will be required to sign up at the start of the evaluations and receive a scrimmage pennie. The evaluators will use the numbers on the pennie to assess each player's skill level. Evaluators will be impartial judges with numerous years of playing and coaching the sport of lacrosse.
Players will be put through a serious of drills to assess their skill level. Skills will be rated on a scale of 5 (highest) thru 1 (lowest) on the proficiency of their lacrosse skills. A score of (5) indicates the players does the following skills correctly 80% of the time, can do them with the left hand and right hand (if applicable), and on the run (if applicable). The following areas will be covered:
Cradling: proper hand placement, protects stick adequately, cradles at eye/ shoulder level, avoids flat cradle in a group
Ground Balls: player gets low with two hands on stick, pops ball into stick, follows through, runs through
Passing: player has proper mechanics, foot placement, follow-through, consistent accuracy
Catching: player presents target, calls for ball, accepts pass with soft hands
Dodging: player shows proper set-up, footwork, stick orientation for split dodge, face dodge and roll dodge
Defensive Footwork: player is able to run hip-to-hip, stick-on-stick with opponent, takes drop-step to adjust to changes of direction
Stick & Body Checks: player uses a variety of stick checks, poke, lift, slap and knows how to bump-and-recover with body
Team Offense: players sees the field, creates 2 v 1 opportunities, moves off-ball (without ball) to create opportunities
Team Defense: player picks up opponent quickly (inside-out), positions to see man and ball, makes adjacent slide, talks & listens
Specialties: Goaltending will be assessed separately, evaluators will also consider face-off, long-stick middie, etc. specialties
Following Directions and Moving to Stations: Players will be rated on their ablility to follow instructions and move to drill stations
Evaluators understand that all players may not have been taught all of these skills, or taught them properly, and will take into consideration a player's effort, potential and enthusiasm. While team rosters will be made from these player assessments, players will still be evaluated the first week of practice to make sure they are placed on appropriate teams.
These evaluations are primarily for White and Red level teams, but beginners are welcome to the workouts. Scoring will be done immediately after evaluations have completed for that particular grade.
Players will be require to turn in evaluation pennies upon completion of the evaluation or will be charged a replacement fee.
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