Table of Contents

Preface
Part I: The Game and Its History
1. The Game of Lacrosse
2. A Brief History
3. The Rules
4. What Makes a Player
Part II: Techniques and Tactics
5. Fundamentals
6. Individual Offense
7. Team Offense
8. Extraman Offense
9. Individual Defense
10. Team Defense
11. Transition
12. Man-Down Defense
13. Goaltending
14. Clearing
15. Riding
16. Face-offs
17. Drills
Part III: Lacrosse at Johns Hopkins
18. Building the Tradition, 1883–1974
19. The Modern Era, 1975–2000
20. Into the Twenty-first Century
Index

About the Author

David Pietramala is head coach of the Johns Hopkins University's men's lacrosse team. A 1990 graduate of Hopkins, he is the only person to win the NCAA Division I lacrosse championship as both a player (1987) and head coach (2005 and 2007). Twice winner of the William C. Schmeisser Award as the nation's top defenseman, the 1989 winner of the Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award as the nation's top player, and a three-time first-team All-American, he is regarded as having been one of the finest defensemen of all time. Neil A. Grauer is an award-winning author, freelance journalist, and caricaturist. A third generation graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, he is the author of six books, including Wits & Sages(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), a series of profiles and caricatures of leading syndicated columnists, and Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber (University of Nebraska Press, 1994).

Reviews

You can consider this book a message to the outside world from the cosmic center of the sport... There have been lacrosse books before, but this is easily the best. Maryland Magazine The ultimate how-to guide. Baltimore Sun