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Breakfast Before a 7 A.M. Game: a LAX Goalie Hub article for parents of youth lacrosse goalies
Fuel Sleep and a Growing Body

Breakfast Before a 7 A.M. Game

Nobody in the house is hungry at 5:30 in the morning, least of all a nervous goalie. What works, what to skip, and why something beats nothing.

Fuel Sleep and a Growing BodyFuel, Sleep, and a Growing Body: a LAX Goalie Hub article for parents of youth lacrosse goalies

Fuel, Sleep, and a Growing Body

The unglamorous half of goalie development: what he eats, when he sleeps, and how a growing body handles a season. None of it is a prescription — it's what tends to work, and the call is yours.

Watching From Behind the CageWhat That Flag Was For: a LAX Goalie Hub article for parents of youth lacrosse goalies

What That Flag Was For

The two kinds of foul, the calls you'll actually see, and which of them change what your goalie has to do next.

The Ride Home"I Love Watching You Play": a LAX Goalie Hub article for parents of youth lacrosse goalies

"I Love Watching You Play"

Six words that came out of two decades of asking college athletes what they liked hearing from their parents. Here's why they work, and why most substitutes don't.

The Mental GameWatching Through Your Fingers: a LAX Goalie Hub article for parents of youth lacrosse goalies

Watching Through Your Fingers

Goalie parents are nervous wrecks and almost all of them think they're the only one. Here's why, and what to do with it — because it travels further than you think.

Watching From Behind the CageSave Percentage Is Lying to You: a LAX Goalie Hub article for parents of youth lacrosse goalies

Save Percentage Is Lying to You

It's the only number anyone keeps for your goalie, and it measures his defense at least as much as it measures him. Here's what it hides.