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Former UC football, basketball athletic trainer Bob Mangine honored

Scott Springer, Cincinnati EnquirerFri, Jul 17, 2026·2 min read

Longtime Cincinnati Bearcats Senior Associate Athletic Director/Physiical Therapy Residency Director and former Head Football and Basketball athletic trainer Bob Mangine will receive the Cincinnati Athletics Bob Goin Service Award.

Mangine will be honored alongside inductees of the 50th anniversary class to the James P. Kelly Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 23, the Friday night before Cincinnati’s football game against Texas Tech. More details will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Mangine has spent more than the last 20 years working with the Bearcats’ football and men’s basketball programs before his current position with physical therapy residents. Mangine worked closely with former UC team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Angelo Colosimo, who also received the Bob Goin Distinguished Service Award into the UC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2023.

His extensive experience in the field of athletic training has made him well-suited to recognize and treat injuries, as well as advise on their prevention. He supervises a program that addresses the health and well-being of the Bearcats on a year-round basis by drawing from over four decades of experience in sports medicine.

Mangine, who assumed football duties in 2005, began as Director of Rehabilitative Services at the University of Cincinnati in 2002. He has worked with both amateur and professional athletes since 1976, when he first arrived at UC. In 1982, he assisted in the development of the nationally-recognized Cincinnati Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center. After serving approximately 10 years with the organization, he started his own practice, which merged with NovaCare Rehabilitation in 1998.

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While he was a student at the University of Pittsburgh, Mangine launched his career in athletics training. He served as assistant athletics trainer of the Pittsburgh Condor Basketball Club and as head athletics trainer at the Community College of Allegheny County before graduation in 1977.

Mangine 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 to work in private clinics.

Mangine currently 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.

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A 25-year award recipient of the National Athletic Trainers Association, he was the head athletic trainer for the aquatic teams at the 1996 Olympics, and the Goodwill Games of 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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