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Archive for December 27th, 2007
Cordingly, McMahon face off in National Lacrosse League season opener
Troy Cordingley will be working his first National Lacrosse League game as a head coach when he takes the Calgary Roughnecks into Denver for the season opener Saturday night, and there will be a familiar face on the opposite side of the floor.
Bob McMahon, who coached Cordingley, will be making his debut as head coach of the Colorado Mammoth in the same game.
“He’s been one of the best coaches I’ve learned from,” says Cordingley. “I have a lot of respect for Bob.”
“We’re good friends,” says McMahon.
Cordingley played for McMahon with the defunct Albany Attack of the NLL five years ago and with the OLA’s Brampton Excelsiors during the 1990s.
Cordingley, 40, lives in Oakville, Ont., and is an elementary school teacher at a Mississauga school, while McMahon, 50, lives in Orangeville, Ont., and is a stay-at-home dad. Weekend commutes to practices that began in November and to games through May will keep them hopping.
“I’m starting to adjust to it,” Cordingley says of combining his two jobs thousands of kilometres apart. “You have to be very disciplined to do this.”
“I’ve been more organized than I ever have been.”








