Crisis Leadership
Leadership
Legend
- player
- coach / parent
- movement path
How it works
Lead a team through a high-pressure game scenario (losing by 2, final 3 minutes) with full leadership authority.
What you need
- lacrosse stick
- lacrosse ball
- goal
- pinnies
- cones
Your focus
The hardest leadership moments are the crisis moments , when a team is losing and time is short. Training players to step into these moments with tactical clarity, emotional composure, and communicative precision produces the leaders who change game outcomes.
Coach assigns one player full game-leadership authority: timeouts, line changes, play calls.
Team is down 2 goals with 3 minutes left in a scrimmage.
Leader runs the team using real leadership tools: calls plays, makes subs, delivers huddle messages.
Coach evaluates tactical decisions, communication quality, and team response. Run twice with different leaders.
Helpful cues
- Crisis leadership is calm leadership, your team takes their emotional cue from you
- Make fast, committed decisions, hesitation in a crisis is the most contagious thing on a team
- After the drill, assess: what would you do differently? Great leaders debrief themselves
Adjust the challenge
Make it easier
Strip it back
Reduce to losing by 1 goal with 5 minutes left.
UpLVL it
Add the next challenge
Coach creates additional crises mid-drill (penalty, player injury) for the leader to manage.No account needed
Build a practice plan
Add drills, keep the plan in this browser, then share a link with your staff or parents.This library helps you find the right drill. Inside UpLVL the right drill finds the player.
This library helps you find the right drill. Inside UpLVL the right drill finds the player.After every practice, UpLVL automatically surfaces the drills each player needs to work on most. See it for yourself.