"Thinking Inside the Crease" is a guide for lacrosse goalies to learn how to dominate in the cage psychologically. Playing goalie is 100% physical as well as 100% mental. The competition in high school and college has gotten so stiff that the best goalies must have the mental game to back up their technique. Chris Buck, a coach and sport psychology consultant, has worked with hundreds of goalies from youth to the MLL over the past twenty years, helping them with their technique but realized the best goalies in the world are the ones with the best mental game as well. The strategies inside this book are utilized by the best in the sport and now they are passed down to the next generation of goalies. From MLL to high school, the goalies who have followed Coach Buck's process have gone on to play at the highest level. Go to www.thinkinginsidethecrease.com for more drills and information.
Chris Buck, President of Get It Done Consulting (www.getitdoneconsulting.net), has his Masters in Exercise and Sport Psychology and is a Certified Consultant and member of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). He has consulted with professional and amateur athletes alike, implementing mental conditioning programs in a wide variety of sports, including lacrosse, golf, tennis, soccer, basketball, track/field, crew, fencing, hockey, and baseball. Coach Buck works with multiple NCAA Division I lacrosse programs as a Sport Psychology Consultant to the team as well as a Goalie Psychology Specialist. He is also the Goalie Psychology Specialist for G3 Lacrosse. He wrote the Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 goalie coaching certification materials for US Lacrosse. He has worked with goalies all over the country and Canada who have committed to, or are playing at, elite programs such as Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Drexel, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Villanova, Rutgers, UVA, UPenn, Dartmouth, Union, Tufts, etc. as well as working with several MLL professional goalies. Chris is the Mental Coach and Goalie Specialist for the 2016 Brown Men's Lacrosse team and currenlty working with the Sacred Heart University men's lacrosse team. He was the goalie specialist with Avon Old Farms and New Canaan, CT High School, as well as the Head Coach of the Desert Mountain High School women's lacrosse team, leading them to the 2008 Arizona state semi-finals. Additionally, he coached the Arizona State All-Star Team in the Women's National Tournament in Baltimore, MD ('08). As a mental conditioning coach at the IMG Academies (Bradenton, FL), Coach Buck consulted with athletes attending the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, David Leadbetter Golf Academy, and the IMG Basketball, Baseball, and Soccer Academies. Chris grew up and played lacrosse in Wilton, CT, winning two state championships during his time there and finished his four-year high school career with a 46-1 record as the starting goalie. After high school, he played lacrosse at Ithaca College.
