2025 Wall Ball Challenge

We’re excited to introduce you to our 2nd Annual Walpole Wall Ball Challenge starting April 1st! See below for details and prizes! See here for a video of some of the Wall Ball Challenge Finishers from last year!

Lacrosse is a sport where kids can make a ton of progress in a short period of time. But it’s also a sport where it is hard to have fun if you can’t throw and catch the ball well yet (kind of like playing hockey without learning how to skate). The best way to develop stick skills is spending time on a Backyard Rebounder or the Lacrosse Wall at the Lorusso 1A Field Complex (less experienced players will find a Rebounder more doable than the concrete wall to start).

Your coaches will encourage you to play Wall Ball daily this season, but we wanted to give more specific guidance to those who are new to Wall Ball. We’ll have a Monthly Challenge with before and after scores, so you can see how much you’ve improved! With 10 minutes a day, you’ll make leaps and bounds, significantly improve your game, and you’ll have a lot more fun.

PART 1:  MONTHLY WALL BALL CHALLENGE

 

There is an “Orange Challenge”, and a “Navy Challenge”  Choose 1 below!

Orange Program: If you are currently able to throw and catch a ball less than 10 times in a row on a rebounder/wall with good form and without dropping the ball, use the Orange Challenge program. Here is the Orange Challenge.

Navy Program: If you are able to throw and catch a ball more than 10 times on a rebounder/wall with good form and without dropping the ball, use the Navy Program.  Here is the Navy Challenge.

At the end of the month, you’ll submit a picture of your calendar with the days crossed off.

***NOTE*** - To keep things simple, if you’re already doing a Wall Ball program with your Club Lacrosse team, just stick with that program.  Take a picture of the calendar and submit it at the end of the month with the days crossed off, and you’ll get credit in town too!  The goal here is just to get all players practicing and improving stick skills!

Prizes

Finish 1 Month (only April or only May): WYGL Lanyard.
Finish 2 Months (April and May): WYGL Slides
All prizes will be distributed at end of year so we can order in bulk.

FAQS!

  • I finished my Wall Ball Challenge every day for the month - how and when do I submit it?
  • What if I miss a day?
  • We don’t own a rebounder, where can we do the challenge?
  • I am new to lacrosse, how do we get started learning the basic skills?
  • You said to focus on Form and Technique. Can you give us more details?
  • Are there any rewards for completing the challenge?

 

For answers to these questions - see the FAQs here!