MN ELITE 12U TEAM INFORMATION 2023-2024 LACROSSE YEAR

Team Fee

The team fee is for the lacrosse year of September 2023 through July 2024 and includes fall, winter, spring & summer training and tournaments. Team fees cover: tournaments, practice field & facility rental, coaching, administrative costs. Payment plan is available. If there are specific questions, please contact Hannah Riggs and Maria Slusser. Be sure to include the first and last name of your player and your players grad year to receive this information.

Practices and Training

During the school year, our practices are mainly on Sundays to accommodate those players in other sports (most all our players are multi-sport athletes). During the summer, we mainly practice on weeknights because tournaments are on weekends. Fall and summer practices/training occurs outdoors at centrally located fields (Hopkins, St. Louis Park). Winter is indoors and currently we are in Eden Prairie on the edge of Edina at Champions Hall.   In addition to our field practices, we also offer Intensives, Running Mechanics, Box and Sixes.

INTENSIVE INDIVIDUAL SKILLS SESSIONS 

Back by popular demand,  our 2023/2024 winter sessions will include  our “Intensives” training. In this format, we focus on the individual skills of a player in smaller groups at an up-tempo, rapid-fire pace. This advances our skill level and is an addition to game-concept work on turf and field spaces.  These high-rep sessions allow our players to gain confidence in individual skills with essentially minimal or no defense (example dodging 100X each: split dodge, change of hands, stutter step = 300 reps dodging) .  Our objective is to help these moves become intuitive in game scenarios and has proven invaluable in developing  “bold” players. 

Running Mechanics

At all levels we bring in an agilities trainer to help our girls to be more explosive and efficient in our running stride.  Sound running mechanics also helps our athletes to stave off injury.

TOURNAMENTS

As part of a cohesive team, one that trains together and competes together, we have "required" tournaments. We are thoughtful in which tournaments we select, participating in the most competitive ones available.

Our 12U  and 10U teams will be independent , on-your-own travel.  Our traditional travel with-the-team will starts in the 7th grade.  At the 10U & 12U level, we need parent support and feel it's in the best interest  of our players.  This means families will arrange their own travel to out of town tournaments. The team fee reflects this change for these age groups. More information about travel tournaments will be provided to each team. 

Required Tournaments - 12U

Optional Tournaments

If you want to participate  in fall/winter additional "a la carte" events and tournaments, you will have the opportunity to do so. These a la carte events/tournaments are optional and they are offered at an additional cost. All costs will be provided up front so you can make an informed choice whether to do these optional events. These events will be released once they have been confirmed.