Bob Mangine’s name has been tied to Cincinnati athletics for decades, and now the longtime Bearcats trainer is set for another honor.
Mangine will receive the Cincinnati Athletics Bob Goin Service Award and be recognized on Oct. 23 with the 50th anniversary class of the James P. Kelly Athletics Hall of Fame. The ceremony comes the Friday night before Cincinnati’s football game against Texas Tech, with more details to be announced in the coming weeks.
A longtime senior associate athletic director and physical therapy residency director at Cincinnati, Mangine also previously served as the head football and basketball athletic trainer. He spent more than 20 years working with the Bearcats’ football and men’s basketball programs before moving into his current role with physical therapy residents.
Mangine’s work with UC has been built on a career that stretches back more than four decades in sports medicine. He has worked with amateur and professional athletes since 1976, when he first arrived at UC, and he assumed football duties in 2005. He began as director of rehabilitative services at the University of Cincinnati in 2002.
His connection to the program also includes close work with former UC team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Angelo Colosimo, who received the Bob Goin Distinguished Service Award into the UC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2023.
Mangine helped develop the nationally recognized Cincinnati Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center in 1982. After about 10 years with that organization, he opened his own practice, which later merged with NovaCare Rehabilitation in 1998.
His path in athletic training started earlier, while he was a student at the University of Pittsburgh. Before graduating in 1977, he worked as assistant athletics trainer of the Pittsburgh Condor Basketball Club and as head athletics trainer at the Community College of Allegheny County.
He later served as director of rehabilitation at UC from 1977-80 while earning his master’s degree. After two years as an assistant professor of physical therapy at the Medical College of Virginia, he returned to Cincinnati and worked in private clinics.
Mangine now serves as National Director of Sports Physical Therapy Clinical Residency for NovaCare and is president of MBM Consultants, which provides educational management services for physical therapy and occupational therapy professionals.
His résumé also includes a 25-year award from the National Athletic Trainers Association, plus major event work as head athletic trainer for the aquatic teams at the 1996 Olympics and the Goodwill Games in 1986, 1990 and 1998. He is a charter member of the Sports Physical Therapy Section Hall of Fame and the Covington Catholic (Ky.) High School Athletics Hall of Fame.
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