"Love her. Best decision i made to transfer here. Shes so honest. Wants what is best for everyone. Easy to talk to. Love her "

"I’ve seen the negative comments here about Gina and my first thought is they’re soft and a bit entitled (especially those who hire recruiters to help them with their college recruiting). Gina has surrounded herself with great coaches and players. The university has failed her in the way they treat lacrosse- it’s just a way to help balance title IX to the ADept! SOOO many things that happened just in 2026 that showed the true colors of Football and ADept! That’s unfortunate! Gina is a Mom so it naturally makes her a real life coach and many spoiled little princesses won’t like that! But if you work hard and are a dedicated teammate with great stick skills and confidence you will be just fine. If you are looking for a D1 team just to tell all your HS friends you are going D1 you are in for a rude awakening ! That is not a glamorous title like a pageant queen, it comes with a mentally tough mindset and body that is ready to work hard! Gina will prepare you for the field and life with the desire to win as a coach and a wish for each of her girls to be successful after lacrosse; she can’t help it, it’s the Mom in her and that matters! I would recommend Gina over and over again. I hope the university does a reassessment to see the decisions they’ve made are the reason parents encouraged their girls to enter the portal. "

"Molly didn't care at all about you unless you were the star player. She got LUCKY to have a star player, who made Molly's career look good. Once this star player was gone Molly was just flat out MEAN to 90% of the payers and treated them as robots, not humans."

"This coach is severely lacking in fundamental coaching abilities and has been actively detrimental to the athletes under his charge. He appears to be best at demolishing the confidence of young women and making them feel belittled. In the short time he served as coach, his professional conduct was appalling. When players asked for guidance, his verbal response was so abusive it caused them severe distress. He offered no constructive guidance, merely degrades athleticism, with a shocking lack of compassion. Employers should exercise extreme caution and fully review his credentials and coaching style, as this person has demonstrated an inability to successfully mentor athletes."

"As a former player, I can honestly saw Gina in neither. Gina is honest, direct, and tough. Some players respond to that, others don't. It's her style. She definitely cares about her players and will go out of the way to check in on them especially if they are injured, something most coaches don't do. However, the elephant in the room, is her lacrosse coaching knowledge. She clearly has a ton of experience having played at the highest level. She is strong at teaching technical skills, but is an abject failure and game planning and preparation. I have friends who played for other D1 programs and the scouting reports they receive are five times longer than what we get. Every team we play knows every play we will run, before we run it. And on when we are on defense, they anticipate our slides before we even make them. And when things go wrong, she has no ability to adjust. And then when it happens, her only response is screaming expletives at her team, not making a strategy or personnel adjustment. Transfers happen at lots of schools these days which make sense. But how many are losing their 2 to 3 best players every year. Based on talent alone, we should win 3-4 more games every game. I won't tell someone not to come to Cincy to play because I had a positive experience. However, if winning games and playing lax at the highest level is your goal, Cincy Lax isn't the best fit. "

"I had a great experience playing under Gina Thomas. She is competitive, tough, resilient, and a great leader. She is easy to look up to and gain respect for. She wants to coach and do her job, not be your little friend. Go there to work and do hard things, or go somewhere else to be a coaches friend. "

"Gina is guilty of being too honest! She’ll tell you exactly what she thinks whether you are going to like what she has to say or not. My family has experience with other D1 - D3 coaches (basketball, football, baseball and Wlax); she is bar none one of the best. If you did not have the college lax experience you were hoping for, who is to blame? Not the coach! Not your parents! You could have worked harder, spent a little less time partying, or transferred! In today’s world transferring is so easy! Please don’t blame Gina! She is tough, honest, and knowledgeable but above all she is a Mom and treats her players like they’re all daughters. Ask some of the players who have transferred in what their previous coaches were like! How many other D1 athletes have a coach that played at the HIGHEST level, her knowledge and passion for the game shows in every thing she does. The switch to a new league has been good but the geography of it has its challenges, however it wasn’t Gina’s decision to switch but she’s doing a great job managing the change.i would chose Gina every time as a college coach. "

"Wow, where do I start, this woman ruined my life, my swimming career and my self worth as a human being. In this team under Mandy You will be mentally and psychically tortured until you feel like you have no choice but to quit the team and loose your scholarship or be scared forever. I want to warn any swimmer wanting to come here, you will be over trained by coachs who don’t know what their doing, you will be injured by strength coach’s who will train you like a body builder and then receive no support from the administration. I somehow graduated from this team and I warn anyone who wants student athlete experience and to be a better athlete and student, please for the love of God do not go here!!!"

"Hello to current and former players, parents, recruits, and anyone who is interested in the state of Cincinnati Lacrosse. My name is Jamie Redding and I am in my fifth season as an assistant under Gina and I would like to speak up and provide my perspective about her character. I would like to begin by acknowledging that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, feelings, and perspective and likewise, although not anonymously, I will be providing mine. I am speaking on the years that I have been here at UC and what I have witnessed. Yes, I have a different relationship with Gina because I was never coached by her but I have been around her more than any player or parent has, to know enough about her character as a person. I have been in the lacrosse world at the collegiate level as a player and coach almost as long as current players have been alive and through those years, I can truly say that Gina is one of the more caring coaches there is. The amount of time Gina spends meeting and having check ins, initiated both by players and herself, far surpasses what is expected of a head coach. She will stay late in the office after a full work day to go to training room doctors appointments for injured players, go to the hospital and visit athletes post op, attend multiple meetings throughout the athletic department advocating for our team and players in more ways than people know. She's added mental health check ins with our mental health specialist to ensure the players have the resources to take care of themselves on and off the field. In today's world of college athletics and the business-like direction it is going, Gina maintains a personal touch, caring about her players both as people and student athletes. I believe that is sometimes forgotten by players and parents, that she is human too and that respect at a human level is not reciprocated. Some may say Gina is a tough coach, even Gina herself has said that in recruiting meetings I have been a part of. It's all perspective. I believe the standard she holds players to and the discipline she preaches will set players up for success in the real world. She pushes players because she sees a potential in them that they may not see in themselves- because she cares. Yes, there may be a few cuss words from time to time but from my perspective it is never at someone or name calling, more so as an emphasis to get her point across. I stand by Gina, the direction she is trying to take this program, and the life lessons she is teaching along the way. At the end of the day, if Gina isn't the coach for you, that's okay too, that's the beauty of the transfer portal. There is no shame in looking out for yourself and doing what's best for you. For those of you who had made it this far, thank you for reading and I would be happy to discuss further via email. Go 'Cats"

"Too many soft kids these days. Easy to throw the coach under the bus when you don’t like the style. If that’s the case quit. She’s an excellent coach. "

"My recruiter warned me about Gina, and honestly, I should’ve listened. This program is a total joke. There are so many talented players here, but barely anyone gets the chance to actually show what they can do. Any real potential just gets buried under all the manipulation, lies, and straight-up meanness that Gina dishes out nonstop. The person you meet during recruitment is not the same person you get once you’re in the program. She’ll be super nice, funny, and promise you all kinds of amazing things—but once you’re here, you realize none of it’s true. She’s mean to everyone, no matter who you are. It doesn’t matter if you’re one of the top players or barely get any playing time—she’ll find a way to tear you down and never build you back up. There’s no real coaching, no clear feedback, no idea what’s expected of you besides “win.” When you actually ask how to improve, you get nothing. The assistant coaches are great, but they’re not used how they should be and honestly seem scared to say or do anything. I get that a D1 program is supposed to be tough, but this isn’t toughness—it’s cruelty. The athletic department just ignores it, and somehow her contract got renewed. And if you want proof, just ask anyone who was at the end-of-season meeting after the Colorado loss. She yelled and cursed at everyone—players, parents, grandparents, even little kids—and told us if we didn’t like it, we could “get the F out.” Keep it classy, Cincinnati."

"Neil Stafford is a FRAUD. He dresses like a coach. He talks like a coach. He is, however, FAR from a coach to the point it is a disgrace to the word "coach". Despite his own high self-assessment of himself, he is a failure in everything he does in this capacity. He may have inherited some decent teams in the past, or been an assistant on successful teams -but he is wholly incapable of actually coaching. He single-handedly has caused numerous girls to quit the game -and not because of a system he established (he knows close to nothing about the actual game), or because his training was too difficult (sitting around listening to him brag about himself is far from difficult) - but because he has the audacity to literally attack the heart and sole of girls' confidence. He's pathetic. I wouldn't allow him to get near my kids. He is a FRAUD. "

"Honestly, I have nothing positive to say about Alvey. It doesn’t matter how talented you are, when you come into her program favoritism will always win. Opportunities aren't given fairly and lineups are not made to win. The players who play are simply the ones she likes the most. Even if you do everything correctly (work hard, communicate, extra reps, film, ect.), like in my case, the cards are still stacked against you… you can never win and it’s defeating. Playing for her felt like being trapped with a dictator. She doesn’t care for her players and only cares about herself. To her, her players are only used scholarship money that she is able to leverage for her own glory. I am so thankful that I left her program. "