University of Cincinnati
ACHA M2 • TSCHL
Date: October 19, 2023
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Parents of athletes and athletes do your due diligence on coaches and programs. Having known Gina for over a decade from the recruiting process onwards I genuinely wish I went elsewhere. As a 15-17 year old kid… let me highlight that again a kid… it is very easy to be manipulated into her web. The recruiting process with her is all smiles, flashiness and high praise. Come on campus and it is not that what so ever. Tommy Tuberville (University of Cincinnati Football Coach) only lasted 3 seasons at UC for poor performance and management, but Gina has been with the school for over a decade and little to write home about. Why? This is more about the establishment itself. So here are some of the tales… in my tenure with the team she went through 4 athletic trainers and 3 strength trainers. A lot like the review above with a concussion I got a concussion as well. I was supposed to be resting but she had me out running still fully participating. This lead me to fear telling the staff about anything. Her control of a room was through fear it was obvious. We would have 3 hour pow wows and “heart to hearts” as a team basically having her ask “Jane Doe what has Sally Doe done to you air your issues” and the two players would awkwardly fight in front of the team. She loved pinning players against each other and it is not shocking she is still losing with this mentality. Now let’s move onto picking captains… one season we had another pow wow where we had to write on a small piece of paper who we thought would be captain she said she would not look and it would be anonymous… as we were walking out the room as we handed her the papers she would open our folded papers and read who we put. We lost a tight game in Detroit by a goal and when we got back to the team hotel with dinner next to us we had to sit in the very public lobby and be screamed at for over 1.5 hours with some hotel guests unaffiliated with us as the receptionists to call the cops on Gina for disorderly conduct and disturbance of piece. But some of the parents on the team told those folks to not call the cops it is very normal for her to pull this. From a lacrosse IQ perspective we got out coached every game. She has no originality in her wheel house and her plays and systems are exposed and exploited constantly. We did try to standup to her and protest and not practice but it was mishandled by the AD and UC. We for a week refused to practice and only for a season was she under intense scrutiny. As a young athlete it was tough to play under her, she would tell us “you guys pay my salary” or “I could cut you all and the AD would not be mad”.