Our first summer sit-down Q&A is with second-year men's lacrosse head coach Bryan Habick. Follow along as we dive into some serious, and some silly, questions to get to know the Cougars' head man.

1: Who is your role model to get into coaching?  

Bryan: I randomly got into coaching, so I don't know if I had a role model getting into it. But now as I've been coaching, I'd say my role model is Lars Tiffany, the head coach at (The University of) Virginia, just because of the way that he operates. His style and my style are very, very similar and I think his approach to the game is a lot like mine too.  

2: What is one food you would never eat pregame?

Bryan: Fish. That just sounds weird. I don't know, I mean, I'm a big pregame meal guy as we all know, but fish is just not on the table.  

2a: Any specific fish? Just any fish?

Bryan: No. So growing up in Jersey, we would only fish for flounder. So like the most generic fish of all time. And it was delicious. We never really had anything else. So I could do for a good flounder, but just not pregame.  

3: Do you have any pets?

Bryan: Any or too many? I have 10, we have two dogs and eight cats. And we have a bearded dragon, but I don't think that's a pet. They are all awesome and all insane at the same time. They all get along, which is very, very lucky for us. But we're big animal people, so it tends to be that we're going to have a ton of pets.

3a: Can you rattle off all 10 names right now?

Bryan: The two dogs are Prim and Abel. Unfortunately, we had to put Poppy down in April. But then the cats, this is a nightmare. So all cats, we've got Daisy, Lily, Sophie, Maggie, Mary, Peaches, Doug, and Mama. Let's go. 

4: If you weren't coaching, what job would you have?

Bryan: That's tough. I grew up in a military and law enforcement family, so my plans before I even got into coaching were to go into the military and were to go into law enforcement. And my mom told me not to do that, so that's how I got into coaching. So I think that would probably be where I would be, is somehow in law enforcement or somehow in the military.

5: Which Mario Kart character do you use? 

Bryan: Toad. Toad. All the way. Dude, Toad is the best one. Anybody that tells you otherwise is a liar.

6: Do you believe in aliens? 

Bryan: Yes. That's a hard yes. I mean, have I seen them? No. But I think if we can believe in a lot of things, we can believe that there's something outside of us.

7: You get to add one new rule to your sport, what would it be? 

Bryan: I can say whatever I want. And I won't get in trouble. I know that'll never happen, but that would be wonderful.

8: Do you have any secret talents?

Bryan: I am not flexible whatsoever. So I can't touch my toes. That's my secret talent. No, I don't have any secret talents. I can't think of anything that I haven't told people I can do because I tend to talk a lot more than anything. So I don't know if it's a secret.  

9: What emoji best describes your coaching style?

Bryan: Probably the purple devil face. That's probably the best one. Just cause I kind of like anarchy a little bit. And the play style that we have is very much anarchy.

9a. Are you the smiling one or the frowning one?

Bryan: So I don't frown. I mean, I'm never sad. It's lacrosse. I love lacrosse. Like being out there even in losses is amazing for me. But I would say if it's going to get as close to a frown, it's just going to be the stoic flat face, the flat line.

10: Which fellow coach would you choose to be stranded on a deserted island with and why? 

Bryan: A fellow Averett coach? That's a tough one. I don't know, I feel like I want to take Phil. I feel like Phil and I are gonna have a good time. I feel like he's somebody I can trust that if I give him a task to do, it's gonna get done. If he gives me a task, I'll get it done. So like, I think Phil Wilson, the men's soccer head coach.