Articles
Playing Time: How to Ask, and Who to Ask
The conversation that works, the one that backfires, and who actually owns it at each age. For goalies this matters more than for anybody else on the roster.
The Coach Who's Never Coached a Goalie
Most youth coaches played field, and they know it. How to help without undermining anybody — including the offer that gets accepted almost every time.
The practical version of the multi-sport decision — which second sport, how to fit it, what it costs you in lacrosse, and how to have the conversation with a club that doesn't want to hear it.
Rec, Travel, or Club: What You're Actually Buying
The levels are sold as a ladder. They're really four different products at four different prices, and for a goalie the thing that separates them isn't the one on the brochure.
Club, Coaches, and the Calendar
Which team, how many weekends, and how much of the year. The decisions that shape a goalie's decade are mostly calendar decisions, and almost nobody explains them to you before you're making them.