Flip Naumburg

Ah, my favorite subject.

This is pretty much the most important player on the field by position definition alone in my book. The Goalie can and often should have more impact on your team than any other. As a coach, you want to get and be close to your goalie. That relationship needs to be [...]

2/1/2012 GOALIE THOUGHTS – CLEARING YOUR BRAIN TO CLEAR THE BALL –

A goalie can dictate what happens during transition, and how to connect the clearing dots. Goalies can do this with leadership that for the most part only Goalies tend to have. It comes from the brain, of course, with some coach added [...]

2/2012

LET”S HEAR IT FOR THE GOALIE BOYS

I have enjoyed seeing the goalie make a “comeback” in lacrosse in recent times. For years it seemed that goalies weren’t as important or dominant as they had been when I played “back in the day”. Eight or ten saves had been pretty a good one game [...]