Gina Mancuso enters her second season as a volunteer assistant coach with the Omaha volleyball program in 2018.
A four-year letterwinner at Nebraska, Mancuso was a two-time AVCA All-American, a two-time AVCA first-team all-region selection and a two-time unanimous first-team All-Big Ten pick. The Omaha native was part of two Husker teams to qualify for the NCAA Elite Eight (2009, 2012) and was part of a Sweet 16 squad in 2010. Mancuso finished her career with 976 kills, 841 digs, 141 blocks and 87 service aces.
Also a standout in the classroom, she was the 2012 Senior CLASS Award winner for volleyball and a first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American.
Following her collegiate career, Mancuso went on to play professionally with stints in Puerto Rico, Azerbaijan, Poland and Germany. In 2013-14, her Baku squad won a season championship and finished third in the Champions League Final Four. In 2015-16, Mancuso helped her team capture a league championship and the German Cup and finished in the top 12 in the Champions League.
As a prep player at Papillion-La Vista, Mancuso was the 2008 Gatorade National Player of the Year, becoming the first high school athlete from the state of Nebraska to earn the national-level award. Additionally, she was tabbed National Player of the Year by Volleyball Magazine and the AVCA that year, capping a high school career that included three first-team all-state plaudits and back-to-back state championships (2007, 2008).
Mancuso was a member of the U.S. Junior National Team in 2008 and played club volleyball for the Nebraska Juniors, winning a pair of Junior Olympic titles (2007, 2009). She was named most valuable player of the 18-and-Under division in 2009 and was a two-time All-America honoree.
Mancuso graduated with her bachelor's degree in marketing and minors in communication and management from Nebraska in 2013.
