Articles
The Kid Who Volunteers for the Hard Job
Somebody asked for a goalie and the field went quiet and your kid put his hand up. Where that habit comes from, where it tends to go, and how not to wear it out.
Blame is always available to a goalie — the defense left him, the slide was late, the ref missed it. Learning not to reach for it is the most valuable habit the position builds.
How a twelve-year-old learns to direct nine people who can't see what he can see — and why that particular skill transfers further than anything else in the sport.
The Only Kid Who Has to Be Brave on Purpose
Every other position reacts to danger. Your kid walks toward it, on a schedule, forty times a season. Here's what that choice does to a person — and what it asks of you.
What ten years in this position actually does to a person — and why most of the return on it shows up somewhere other than a lacrosse field.