McComb, the head coach of the Junior A Whitby Warriors, and an assistant with the NLL's Portland LumberJax, took some time on Tuesday to answer our 10 Questions.

1. What do you enjoy most about coaching?

The fun answer would be getting to yell at people. The real answer, I think, is getting to teach and getting to be around the sport that I love and getting to see these kids grow and become men. And hopefully being able to teach them something in that process.

2. What continues to bring you back to coaching at the Junior A level?

I think it's the people in the sport. Normally the kids you are coaching, and while they may change, I think they have the same goals and that's to get better as people and get better as athletes. You hope you can help them do that. And the other big thing is the competition. I don't think there is anywhere else in life that you can get the instant reward and gratification and satisfaction as you can get from coaching sports and being involved in sports.

3. Looking at a picture of the 1999 Minto Cup Championship team, there are so many talented players there. What was so special about that team, aside from the fact you guys won the Canadian championship?

I think it's one person that was special about that team and that was Jim Bishop. He had most of those guys from the time they were nine or 10 years old. The group that he molded, he really did mold them as lacrosse players and as men. We lost Jim on Labour Day of 1998, and those kids had a mission that year. As they've gone on to prove, they were a very, very good group of talented lacrosse players, but you put the singular focus in front of them like in 1999 and winning the Minto Cup and Jim not being there. There was nothing that was going to stop them from doing that. It was amazing to watch them go out. It was almost like watching a preordained machine just do it's job.

4. Looking back on your coaching career, you've coached a lot of talented players at the Jr. A level. Who would be at the top of that list in terms of talent?

It is hard to put one there, but I think Gavin Prout, who has gone on to a pretty good career, Gee Nash also from that group. From a goaltending perspective probably Gee and probably Gavin terms of an overall type thing.

5. Going back a little further in your career, how did you first become involved in lacrosse?

That's a good question. I have a picture of my great grandfather on the 1912 Fergus Thistles up in my house framed. My dad played goal on the 1967 Founders Cup team for Elora. It was called the Castrol Cup back then, but he was the goaltender there and he played growing up. It was something where you didn't have much choice. When you were a McComb and starting out you got to play lacrosse. My brother, who is 16 months younger then me, we played all the way up together every other year. Played Junior together. Played on the U19 National team in 1988 together. My sister played on the provincial women's team too. So it's a family thing.

6. Do you have any kids of your own that you would like to get involved in the sport?

No, not yet. A couple weeks ago was my first anniversary, May 27th, and that's something we're probably looking at in the coming future here.

7. How does coaching at the Jr. A level differ from your coaching role at the professional level?

Once again, I think it really does come down to the teaching. It's more rewarding of a coaching experience at the Junior A level because you really are teaching and adding to these kids and their skill development as X's and O's and the technical side and as you know, gaining a maturity in a number of different areas in life. Whereas at the pro level it is more of a very technical, X's and O's type of thing. What can we do to manage a game and get the right people on the floor as opposed to teaching.

8. Away from lacrosse, what are some of the things you do to keep busy?

Well... Lacrosse. To be honest with you, I've been coaching pro, Jr. A. and the U19 Field Lacrosse for I think the last four years. That's 365 days a year almost. I think we have generally a week off at the end of August and a week off around Christmas time before you're back into it. Other than that, my wife (Vanessa) and I, my parents have a cottage up on Manitoulin Island and with buying a new house last year we both discovered we liked the gardening and doing stuff around the house and that type of stuff.

9. Obviously your life for the most is consumed by lacrosse, so away from the game, what are some of the memories you cherish most?

Away from lacrosse, I think the two things would obviously be the marriage to my wife. That is the most important thing in my life. Lacrosse is second. Sometimes I think she wonders about that but it is the truth. And the second I think, is getting a university degree (Kinesiology, University of Western Ontario). It was a big thing to do. I was one of the first in my family to get a university degree.

10. You've spoke about it time and time again early in this season about it, but how special would it be with this group of guys with the Warriors, in their last year of Junior eligibility, to close it out with a Minto Cup?

It's something that, as a group of us, and I don't the exact number, but I think it's 11 or 12 of us, that I went back to coach Midget in 2001 with these guys and I've been with them ever since. It's something we've talked about from day one when they were Midgets and that's winning a Minto Cup together. I've always stressed in my mind that it's the hardest trophy to win in Canadian sport really. You get five shots at it, like the Memorial Cup in hockey. You don't get the same number of shots at it like a Mann Cup or a Stanley Cup if you play 10 or 15 years. Your maximum number is five. To get one would be a huge, huge accomplishment.