We are sorry for being away for a couple of weeks as we are in the middle of our CUFLA season and needed to put our time and energy towards that. We are really excited to be back and to share with you part one of our conversation with one of the best lacrosse coaches in history, Bob McMahon. Besides his work as a coach and builder within the Orangeville, Ontario Minor and Junior programs, Bob began his professional lacrosse coaching career as an assistant coach with the Detroit Turbos in 1992 and 1993. In 1999, McMahon was hired as an assistant coach to his friend Terry Sanderson in Albany, and was promoted to head coach following the 2001 season, when Sanderson left Albany to become head coach of the expansion Montreal Express. In the two years with Sanderson as head coach, the Attack finished with 6-6 and 5-9 records, but in McMahon's first year as head coach, Albany improved to a league-best 14-2 record. The Attack hosted the NLL Championship game, which they lost to the Toronto Rock, but McMahon was named 2002 NLL Coach of the Year (an award later renamed the Les Bartley Award). McMahon was also selected as coach of the South team in the 2002 NLL All-Star Game.
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