that is the age of my brother so I have experience, if you will, with that age group haha. It is basically that we scream at the players to pick a number and stick with them and yell to have their sticks up in a man-to-man which is probably a much easier concept to understand than zone at that age. I would reccomend a zone+1 as my team calls it. The guy on the ball always goes with his man as long as he has the ball nomatter what (hence the +1). A good way to denote where everyone is supposed to be is just draw six circles and tell them what they need to know and then they stick with a guy in their zone until they get to the next zone and they will yell cutter to the crease d if he id going to the net. That's the best I can do. Good luck -- Hope this helped somewhat.
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