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Deemer Class and Matt Dunn open the First Class Lacrosse podcast by recapping mid-March lacrosse season context, the end of FCL’s winter training circuit across the East Coast, and Deemer’s career path from finance in NYC to coaching and building FCL, including USC and St. Paul’s. They discuss changes in athletes’ busier schedules, adding constraints-led methods, and define “coachability” through a Lake Forest clinic where players quickly applied feedback, asked questions, and did extra work. Matt updates Highland Park’s 8–1 season and upcoming spring break trip. They reflect on a Jesse Bernhardt episode about developing bench players and transparency amid transfers and NIL. The conversation covers team slumps, accountability and buy-in, trainability and multi-sport sampling (David Epstein), reinvention, perfectionism (Andre Agassi), and framing success as being the best teammate.
Timecodes
0:00 - Camp Updates
17:30 - Takeaways From Last Pod
28:30 - Slump Busting
41:15 - Trainability
56:30 - Chasing Perfection
By First Class Lacrosse5
2121 ratings
Checkout The FCL Coaches Community: 1stclasslax.com/community
Deemer Class and Matt Dunn open the First Class Lacrosse podcast by recapping mid-March lacrosse season context, the end of FCL’s winter training circuit across the East Coast, and Deemer’s career path from finance in NYC to coaching and building FCL, including USC and St. Paul’s. They discuss changes in athletes’ busier schedules, adding constraints-led methods, and define “coachability” through a Lake Forest clinic where players quickly applied feedback, asked questions, and did extra work. Matt updates Highland Park’s 8–1 season and upcoming spring break trip. They reflect on a Jesse Bernhardt episode about developing bench players and transparency amid transfers and NIL. The conversation covers team slumps, accountability and buy-in, trainability and multi-sport sampling (David Epstein), reinvention, perfectionism (Andre Agassi), and framing success as being the best teammate.
Timecodes
0:00 - Camp Updates
17:30 - Takeaways From Last Pod
28:30 - Slump Busting
41:15 - Trainability
56:30 - Chasing Perfection

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