John Desko has won five NCAA National Championships as a head coach and been part of six more as an assistant coach. Now for the first time, Desko offers you a look inside of one of the most successful and celebrated lacrosse programs ever assembled. The concepts, techniques and drills provided in this DVD have a proven track record of success--the record speaks for itself.

Structuring Your Team's Season
In Part I, Coach Desko discusses how to organize and structure a school lacrosse team. This segment is designed to give you and your players an idea of how a proper, year-round lacrosse program is setup. This "big picture" take on the lacrosse and academic calendar will give both coaches and players a good head start in understanding their goals and priorities for any given part of the year.

Some of the topics Desko hits on include:

• Initial team meeting, orientation, schedule review and support planning
• First two weeks, schedules, including initial strength and conditioning program
• Fall practice schedule and tournament benefits, post fall plan and winter plan
• Spring pre-season double sessions to regular season
• Setting goals for post season play and individual player goals during the summer

Desko teaches his unique catching and throwing drills that will introduce your players to fundamental ball movements and body movements. The Spike Drill and Diamond Drill teach fundamental catching and throwing techniques while hard wiring critical foot and hand work into your players.

Learn 3v2 and 5v4 drills that will allow your athletes to utilize these catching, throwing and ball movement patterns in scrimmage conditions. Defensive positioning is introduced and movement and spacing are stressed.

Desko progresses to full field fast breaks and broken situations. Players are now approaching live game situations where player movement, ball movement and team coordination become the focus of the action.

Coach Desko mixes practice and game footage to illustrate the drills and to show how the skills manifest themselves in crucial game situations.

In 11 years as head coach, Desko coached the Syracuse lacrosse team to seven NCAA finals appearances and nine Final Fours. Desko also coached Team USA to a runner-up finish at the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship. Order now and begin to reap the benefit of this brilliant coaching mind.

79 minutes. 2012.

Kelly Amonte Hiller is quite simply a legend. Over the last seven years (2005-11), she has amassed a record of 147 wins and only 7 losses - a winning percentage of 95.4 percent. During that run her Wildcats have appeared in the NCAA final all seven seasons, winning the title six times (2005-2009, 2011) - that includes two undefeated seasons (2005, 2009), and has coached 28 All-Americans and three Tewaaraton Trophy winners.

Her success as a player and coach has been achieved through her commitment, hard work, innovation, and positive approach to teaching the sport of lacrosse. Coach Amonte Hiller is renowned for being on the leading edge of coaching techniques.

Now, for the first time ever, Coach Amonte Hiller opens her practices to you, allowing you watch three Northwestern lacrosse practices as though you were sitting on sidelines. You will get a first-hand look at the practices, drills and training techniques that make the Northwestern Wildcats a national title contenders year-in and year-out.

Practice Day 1, Multi-Station Situation Drills / Weight Room
Coach Amonte Hiller introduces her positive coaching techniques and discusses her strategy for designing the team's practice. The team runs through a quick succession of warm-up drills that focus on stick and footwork skills with a conditioning element added. She then divides the team into groups that run through multi-station drills in 7 minute segments that focus on individual skills like stick work, ground balls, transitional play, feeding, shooting, faking and 1-on-1 defense. Each skill is taught and practiced in a way that is directly transferable to the field of play. All these drills are designed not only to increase individual skills, but also to improve conditioning.

Practice is followed by a workout with the team's strength and conditioning coach. The Wildcats are put through a strenuous workout regiment that includes free weights, medicine balls, and resistance bands.

Practice 2: Transition Drills / Alternative Workout
Day 2 starts with another strength and conditioning workout. Modeled on a boxer's training routine, this workout helps build upper body and core strength, while integrating a tough cardio regime. Amonte Hiller uses these techniques to increase the hand-eye coordination and conditioning of her players. In addition, the players engage in stationary cycling to improve conditioning and strengthen leg muscles.

During the practice session on the field, Amonte Hiller has the players work in larger groups in order to build settled and unsettled concepts. The primary focus is to get the group of individuals to work together as a team.

Drills feature:

• A feeding drill from behind the cage, challenging the feeder with defensive pressure while forcing the cutter to time her cut and positioning for help.
• 4 v 3 into a 4 v 4 full field transition drill to force good decisions by both offensive and defensive players.
• 3 v 3 from behind drill has the defense provide pressure on offense while the offense works not to forcing passes out of desperation.

Practice 3: Stickwork and Defensive Work
In the final practice session, Coach Amonte Hiller brings together the lessons of the week, focusing again on stick skill development, working on groundballs, reinforcing defensive concepts on double teams and footwork, and practicing draws. Drills are designed to force partners to constantly communicate in order to be successful. More emphasis is placed on defense, draws, and unbalanced and transitional play. The coaches work on these skill sets both in the team setting and in the small group setting to maximize the number of repetitions for each player.

Finally, the Wildcats head back to the weight room for another round with the free weights and medicine balls. Here the players go through a different set of innovative lifts and movements designed to prevent injury, improve strength, and increase the conditioning level.

This video will give you a glimpse behind the scenes of one of the best all-around coaches in college sports. There are over 4 hours of practice footage where Coach Amonte Hiller practices her craft. Her innovative concept drills are designed to progressively build toward full-field game play. By reducing larger full game concepts into smaller pieces, players are able to successfully build on basic fundamental skills. The concept drills are designed to focus player and coaching efforts on mastering ever increasing skills developed through individual commitment and encouragement from peers in a team-learning environment. Several different evolutions of station drills combine to fully engage player participation and maximize practice time.

This is a complete system that can be used to elevate individual players performance and transform individuals into efficient, confident and successful team players.

229 minutes (3 DVDs). 2012.

John Nostrant delivers an all-access look into two live practice sessions as his undefeated team prepares for its next opponent. The first practice is an up-tempo skill development practice. The second, a more focused practice centered on game preparation for their next opponent.

The objective for Nostrant and his staff is to run productive, up-tempo practices and keep everyone involved and sharp. The practices you will see are broken down into a pre-practice segment, stretching, drill work and game prep. Nostrant and his staff teach on both the offensive and defensive side of the field.

Day 1 Practice
Pre-practice work includes offensive and defensive skill work. Shooting progressions, passing and face-offs are incorporated in the offensive skill work. The defensive skill work includes stick handling , blocking, and slide progressions.

After a team stretch, the Fords run through a series of seven drills to perfect ground ball play, transition build ups, scramble situations and more.

Day 2 Practice
Pre-practice work includes shooting and slide progressions on the offensive end and ground ball play, blocking, stick handling, and footwork on the defensive end.

The Fords run through two drills and use the rest of the practice practicing their man and zone offense 6-on-6. These drills are used as game prep by switching up the offense and defense and providing different looks for both sides.

The practice ends with man up and man down situation.

Get an inside look at one of the most successful high school lacrosse programs in the nation!

176 minutes. 2011.

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 the specialty skills of field players and goalkeepers
• train like a champion with sport-specific conditioning drills
• sharpen individual and team execution with situational drills
• maximize potential by making the most out of practice time

208 pages. 2010.

In this unique presentation, Cindy Timchal coaches and narrates her way through two complete practices, including candid locker room talks.

Stand next to Timchal during a Navy practice and see how she keeps her team focused as they prepare for their upcoming game. Building up drills from 1 v 1, 2 v 2, up to 7 v 7. Timchal notes special preparations in each area on offense and defense.

See pregame, halftime and post game locker room talks, including footage from an entire Naval Academy game. Go back to the practice field and watch Timchal prepare for the next opponent. Get an inside look at how Timchal reviews the scouting report with players, corrects mistakes from the previous game, and focuses on specific things they will have to do to stop their next opponent.

Cindy Timchal is the most-accomplished women's lacrosse coach in the sport's history. Now you have unprecedented, real-time access to her practices.

232 minutes. (2 DVDs). 2009.