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Lacrosse tryout evaluation form
Stick skills gate everything else in lacrosse: a genuinely fast athlete who cannot catch under pressure cannot play yet. Youth groups also arrive with a wider experience gap than most sports, so separate what a player cannot do from what they have simply never been taught.
The general set
What to score when the whole group is together
These are the columns the scoresheet loads when you pick Lacrosse. They are written to be scored on everyone in the session, which is what a first tryout needs. Coachability sits last on purpose. It is the one every coach marks, and it belongs where they expect to find it.
- Stick handling
- Catching
- Passing
- Shooting
- Dodging
- Ground balls
- Positioning
- Conditioning
- Coachability
By position
What to score once you split into groups
A skill that decides one position is noise on everyone else's sheet, which is why these sit apart from the general set rather than being bolted onto it. Pick a position in the builder and the columns rebuild themselves.
Attack
- Dodging
- Shooting accuracy
- Feeding and vision
- Off-ball movement
- Riding effort
- Stick protection
- Coachability
Midfield
- Two-way work rate
- Dodging from up top
- Transition speed
- Ground balls
- Shooting on the run
- Defensive slides
- Coachability
Defense
- Footwork and positioning
- Stick checks
- Body positioning
- Ground balls
- Clearing the ball
- Communication
- Coachability
Goalie
- Reaction and hand speed
- Positioning and arc
- Saves on the pipes
- Clearing and outlet passes
- Directing the defense
- Composure
- Coachability
Faceoff
- Clamp technique
- Counters and exits
- Ground ball scrap
- Wing play awareness
- Quickness off the whistle
- Coachability
Running the session
A lacrosse tryout, station by station
The stations the builder can drop onto the sheet for you, in the order they usually run. Delete the ones you are not testing. A station on the sheet that never happened leaves a blank column that looks like a missing score.
- Line drills: cradling, passing and catching
- Ground balls, 1v1 and in traffic
- Shooting on the run and from set positions
- Dodging from X and from up top
- Defensive footwork and legal checks
- Goalie shot series
- Small-sided and full scrimmage
How to staff a tryout, brief evaluators, and tell families the result afterwards is on the tryouts and evaluation guide . It applies to every sport, so it lives in one place rather than being repeated here. You will also want a medical consent and emergency contact form for everyone on the floor that day, and a player evaluation form at the other end of the season.
Playbook Logix provides customizable templates for informational and administrative use. They are not legal advice and will not meet the requirements of every organization, sport or jurisdiction. Review anything you intend to rely on with your own attorney or your insurance carrier, and check your league and state requirements.
Common questions
What should be on a lacrosse tryout evaluation form?
The skills you will actually test that day, and nothing else. For lacrosse that means stick handling, catching, passing and shooting and the rest of the set below, plus a notes column and a row per athlete. A column you will not score is a column that makes the sheet slower to fill in.
Should we score by position?
Not in the first session. Score the whole group on the general criteria while you still have everyone together, then run position-specific sheets when you break into groups - that is when the attack criteria stop being noise on everyone else's sheet.
How long should a lacrosse tryout be?
Long enough to run the stations below without rushing, and short enough that you are scoring skill rather than fitness. Ninety minutes is a common answer for a single age group. If you need two sessions, evaluate both and average them rather than treating the second as a tiebreak.
Other sports
Tryout forms for every sport we have criteria for
Baseball Softball Basketball Volleyball Soccer Football (Tackle) Football (Flag) Cheerleading
After the tryout comes the roster
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