OUR BOSTON SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IS OPEN FOR REGISTRATION!!
WHAT IS CLADDAGH SKILL DEVELOPMENT?
Claddagh Skill Development is the optimal off-season training program for lacrosse players. We use a comprehensive, position-specific skill curriculum to achieve our goal of successful skill development for each player. While the spring and summer seasons are focused on team play and concepts, the off-season is the time when players need to address and improve their individual skill sets. In our Skill Development program, our staff of NCAA coaches and professional players will put each player on a progressive, graded plan to facilitate maximum skill acquisition during these off months.
Features of the Skill Development program:
- Progressive curriculum of fundamental to advanced skills
- 1-on-1 evaluations with each player
- Leveling based on appropriate age, skill, and experience
- Opportunity to develop skills at least 1x per week in the off-season during other sports
- Experienced and reputable staff of coaches
- Shooting progression (on the run vs. time and room, deception, shooting technique)
- Dodging progression (1-on-1 technique, 'when' to use 'what' dodge)
- Offensive footwork and positioning
- 2-0n-2 Offensive play (setting picks, making cuts, etc.)
- Defensive footwork and positioning
- 1-on-1 and 2-on-2 defense (playing through picks, communication, etc.)
- Stick checks
- Ground ball technique
- Faceoffs and wingplay
- AND MUCH MORE!
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Strike One in Danvers, MA
Claddagh Skill Development will be hosted at Strike One, with 20,000 square feet of state-of-the-art SportTurf surface. Players will enjoy their sessions on the ideal lacrosse surface.Strike One is conveniently located at 199 Newbury Street in Danvers, MA (Route 1 North). It is accessible from all points North (via Route 95 South), South (Route 128), and points East and West (Route 114).
DIRECTIONS TO STRIKE ONE
THE BOYS PROGRAM WILL ONCE AGAIN TRAIN ON TUESDAY NIGHTS AT STRIKE ONE
TWO OPTIONS THIS YEAR:
1) 20 week developmental skill program (10 wks from 10/19 - 12/23 then 10 wks 1/4 - 3/8)
* This is RECOMMENDED for maximum development as well as economic value with discount!
2) First 10 week session from October 19th to December 23rd
Second 10 week session from January 4th to March 8th
U11 will meet 6:30pm - 7:45pm
U13 will meet 6:30pm - 7:45pm
U15 will meet 7:45pm - 9:00pm
U17 will meet 7:45pm - 9:00pm
Cost: $225 per 10 week session OR a $50 DISCOUNT by registering for both sessions (20 wks total)
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Our Experienced Staff
NOLAN GODFREYCladdagh Lacrosse Director
Coach Godfrey has been a fixture in Massachusetts lacrosse for several years. He was an All-American midfielder at Merrimack College, also leading the nation in ground balls and ranking second nationally in faceoff percentage while collecting All-Conference and All-New England Honors.
He was later a first-round selection of the world champion Philadelphia Barrage in the Major League Lacrosse (MLL) supplemental draft and has experience in the Boston Cannons organization of MLL. Godfrey has played three seasons of box lacrosse in Canada, most recently at the Senior-A level for the Nanaimo Timbermen of the Western Lacrosse Association in British Columbia. He was named to the Team USA indoor developmental team in 2008 and competed at the Warriors Cup in Ontario.
In addition to operating two national lacrosse camp companies, Godfrey has toured Europe, coaching the last two summers in Spain, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Scotland, and Finland. His other coaching appointments include work as an assistant coach at Saint Anselm College (NCAA Division II) and founding two Massachusetts high school programs, at Central Catholic High School and Haverhill High School. He also coached at Billerica High School in Massachusetts, where he helped lead the boys’ lacrosse team to the Division 1 state final in 2008. Godfrey's latest coaching stop has been in the Dallas area as the Plano Senior High School boys head coach.
JOEL BATES
FIELD DIRECTOR
Assistant Coach at Nashoba HS (MA)
Coach Bates has made a lifetime of lacrosse through playing and coaching. The Long Island native shined as a collegiate star at both perennial national championship contender C.W. Post as well as Molloy College. At Molloy, he was named All-Conference in the very competitive NYCAC. Coach Bates was a standout player at Kellenberg Memorial High School in New York, and played at the post-collegiate level with the prestigious Long Island Hofstra Lacrosse Club.
Not only a fine player, Coach Bates has excelled in the coaching ranks as well. He is a former NCAA assistant coach at Molloy College and has since honed his coaching skills at Malverne High School (NY) and now is part of the Nashoba Valley Regional High School staff. Bates has also coached in two youth systems in New York (Long Beach and Baldwin) and is a veteran instructor at the Adelphi Lacrosse Camp.
MICHAEL MORGAN
RYAN DANEHYMerrimack College Dartmouth College
NCAA Final Four NCAA Division I
