Shiloh Kimmel has been playing lacrosse for more than six years, and has been teaching lacrosse for more than four years. While playing her first year with the Horizon Huskies, she was ranked number one in the state of Arizona for scoring. Her second year, as team captain, she was ranked number one for assists. Kimmel has continued her love for the sport of lacrosse by teaching it and playing it while going to school at Arizona State University.
Alright I have Melissa here with me who is wearing some eye protection which is so wonderful, you will be wearing this whenever you are practicing and whenever you are playing in a game. She is here to help me demonstrate how to check the ball. Okay? Now this is a defensive move, so if she has the ball and I am on the opposite team, I am going to try and get it from her. There are a lot of different ways that you can get someone to give up the ball. You can do body positioning so that she would have to switch to her other side, and maybe she is not as good at cradling on her other side and she could just accidentally drop the ball. You can also use body positioning to block her passing lanes so she cannot really get rid of it and she is kind of stuck and you get another friend, another teammate over and we are able to do so much pressure that she drops the ball or the other teammate is able to get the check. But basically I am going to show you how you check legally in women's lacrosse. And let me just reiterate it is not the same as men's lacrosse, there are different rules for checking and so these are them. First of all you cannot check in-between the opposite player's hands, so this area right in here I cannot check. I also cannot check towards the body so if I checked her like that that would go into her sphere which is illegal. I cannot check through her sphere so I cannot get within twelve inches of her face and be checking, that is illegal. I cannot check from behind. And I also cannot do unnecessarily rough or violent checks, and usually one-handed checks look pretty rough. So it is normally good to keep two hands on your stick when you are checking because it looks controlled. A good check is controlled and quick, forceful, you do not want to follow through all the way, you just want to do quick, controlling checks. So, we will do this one more time. So a good check with Melissa, I would try to watch her cradle and I am going to try to do it when she is coming towards me because I am going to, if she gives she is going to be able to control more of that ball. So she is coming towards me, coming towards me, like that. That is a good check. And as far as Melissa goes, she is going to try to be using all of her different cradling techniques to try and keep the ball from me, she is going to switch sides, she is going to go over her head, she is maybe going to move out one handed, and she is going to try to be moving around me as a defender, as an offender, so she can get past me and maybe get towards the goal. But I just have to watch, keep my body positioning good and hopefully I can get the ball from her.
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