Mandy Commons-DiSalle

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University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH

University of Cincinnati (Clermont College) - Batavia, OH

Men's Swimming & Diving Head Coach, Men's Swimming & Diving Head Coach
Division: NCAA DI
Conference: American Athletic | The American

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Men's Swimming & Diving Head Coach

Avoid Avoid Avoid Avoid this Coach

Date: January 7, 2024
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How does Mandy still have a job? Mandy creates an unhealthy/toxic team environment. She hand picks her team captains based upon who will not challenge doing what is right. She encourages her students to take easy majors and defer challenging classes. She threatens removing scholarships if you do not hit your goals. She pits team members against one another. Do not consider joining this team until this coach is no longer leading the Bearcats.
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Date: January 7, 2024
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How does Mandy still have a job? Mandy creates an unhealthy/toxic team environment. She hand picks her team captains based upon who will not challenge doing what is right. She encourages her students to take easy majors and defer challenging classes. She threatens removing scholarships if you do not hit your goals. She pits team members against one another. Do not consider joining this team until this coach is no longer leading the Bearcats.
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Men's Swimming & Diving Head Coach

Mandy Commons-Disalle gives coaching a bad rep

Date: November 23, 2023
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Mandy recruits team members and then disposes of them quickly instead of nurturing them and coaching them to reach their true potential. She does not care about divers! She does not care about your commitment to the school for your education despite not having a scholarship. She does not care about the athlete but only their ability to perform but doesn't help the athlete attain their potential. She creates a toxic team culture because of all of the above. In the 2023/24 season half of the team was new and many team members were cut from the roster or lost their scholarship.
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Mandy Commons-Disalle gives coaching a bad rep

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Date: November 23, 2023
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Mandy recruits team members and then disposes of them quickly instead of nurturing them and coaching them to reach their true potential. She does not care about divers! She does not care about your commitment to the school for your education despite not having a scholarship. She does not care about the athlete but only their ability to perform but doesn't help the athlete attain their potential. She creates a toxic team culture because of all of the above. In the 2023/24 season half of the team was new and many team members were cut from the roster or lost their scholarship.
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Stay away. Bad experience. Stay away.

Date: August 12, 2023
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Stay away. Bad experience. Stay away
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Stay away. Bad experience. Stay away.

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Date: August 12, 2023
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Stay away. Bad experience. Stay away
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Men's Swimming & Diving Head Coach

Cuts you from the team or makes you leave!

Date: April 20, 2023
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Uncaring, dismissive, Cold, calculating,unsupportive
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Cuts you from the team or makes you leave!

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Date: April 20, 2023
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Uncaring, dismissive, Cold, calculating,unsupportive
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Men's Swimming & Diving Head Coach

Get ready to suffer

Date: April 30, 2022
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If you are considering joining this team, please do yourself a favor and reconsider. Mandy will make you hate the sport you love. She will belittle you to thinking you are not good enough to be on the team if you are not a record-holder. Most swimmers quit before they graduate because of the coaching staff. The culture of the team is toxic. It probably will get worse when they join the Big 12, because expectations will increase. Mandy will come across as pleasant during the recruiting process and then it will all change once you sign - makes zero sense to me as to why…..
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Date: April 30, 2022
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If you are considering joining this team, please do yourself a favor and reconsider. Mandy will make you hate the sport you love. She will belittle you to thinking you are not good enough to be on the team if you are not a record-holder. Most swimmers quit before they graduate because of the coaching staff. The culture of the team is toxic. It probably will get worse when they join the Big 12, because expectations will increase. Mandy will come across as pleasant during the recruiting process and then it will all change once you sign - makes zero sense to me as to why…..
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Stay away from this Coach

Date: April 28, 2022
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Shocked that Mandy still has a job coaching swimming at UC. Only reason she has not been released is due to the numerous AD’s and Compliance directors during her tenure. Most athletes either quit or are forced to quit. The coaching staff is abusive and knowingly breaks NCAA rules regarding practicing too many hours per week. There is no balance between academics and athletics. She only cares about times and her job and doesn’t care at all about the swimmers. I love the University and UC Athletics , but Mandy has ruined so many students’ college athletics and academic experiences.
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Date: April 28, 2022
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Shocked that Mandy still has a job coaching swimming at UC. Only reason she has not been released is due to the numerous AD’s and Compliance directors during her tenure. Most athletes either quit or are forced to quit. The coaching staff is abusive and knowingly breaks NCAA rules regarding practicing too many hours per week. There is no balance between academics and athletics. She only cares about times and her job and doesn’t care at all about the swimmers. I love the University and UC Athletics , but Mandy has ruined so many students’ college athletics and academic experiences.
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Call Nev & Max - I've been catfished.

Date: April 26, 2022
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For the most part, Mandy is not a fan of the human race. She is dismissive, abrasive, abusive, and argumentative. The one thing she excels at is hiding her true personality. She will kill you with kindness and compliments until you step foot on the pool deck. From that point on you will spend every day wishing she had just killed you. The number of swimmers that have left or quit is insane. How this monster still has a job is the real question. Swimmers are built different - they are conditioned to be mentally and physically strong. She will break you. She will steal your passion for the sport you have spent your whole life loving. Choose wisely- avoid Mandy.
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Call Nev & Max - I've been catfished.

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For the most part, Mandy is not a fan of the human race. She is dismissive, abrasive, abusive, and argumentative. The one thing she excels at is hiding her true personality. She will kill you with kindness and compliments until you step foot on the pool deck. From that point on you will spend every day wishing she had just killed you. The number of swimmers that have left or quit is insane. How this monster still has a job is the real question. Swimmers are built different - they are conditioned to be mentally and physically strong. She will break you. She will steal your passion for the sport you have spent your whole life loving. Choose wisely- avoid Mandy.
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Date: April 26, 2022
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Took us on a recruiting trip to a memorial service. And then the coaches left early. It was so weird
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Date: April 26, 2022
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Took us on a recruiting trip to a memorial service. And then the coaches left early. It was so weird
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issa No from me dawg

Date: April 25, 2022
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Yeo don't even get me started about Mandy fam. She seemed like a decent coach from our recruiting calls and meetings. The truth however arose rather quickly, when I first joined the team she did not say a word to me for weeks. Only when did I start rising in the team did she begin to notice and communicate with me. She only cares for swimmers who can win a championship as that means another bonus for her. Her and her coaching staff have a repetitive nature of meeting with swimmers and suggesting they stop swimming or transfer elsewhere. Even promising students that she will honor their scholarship, only to text them 10 days before the payments due to cancel on that promise. I recommend staying away from her, as she is a horrid disease hiding behind a smile. The only reason she is still a coach is because her daddy's company that her husband works for pays the school hella and the university wants to be seen as "diverse" for having a female head coach. Even tho Mandy hates anyone that is not white.
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issa No from me dawg

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Date: April 25, 2022
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Yeo don't even get me started about Mandy fam. She seemed like a decent coach from our recruiting calls and meetings. The truth however arose rather quickly, when I first joined the team she did not say a word to me for weeks. Only when did I start rising in the team did she begin to notice and communicate with me. She only cares for swimmers who can win a championship as that means another bonus for her. Her and her coaching staff have a repetitive nature of meeting with swimmers and suggesting they stop swimming or transfer elsewhere. Even promising students that she will honor their scholarship, only to text them 10 days before the payments due to cancel on that promise. I recommend staying away from her, as she is a horrid disease hiding behind a smile. The only reason she is still a coach is because her daddy's company that her husband works for pays the school hella and the university wants to be seen as "diverse" for having a female head coach. Even tho Mandy hates anyone that is not white.
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Commit here and be ensured to experience some form of trauma!

Date: April 25, 2022
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Emotionally abusive and manipulative. While participating in sports for a university, you understand it is like a business. However your entire presence as a human person is diminished to something she can use. She treats you like an object. She made me hate the sport and the aspect of mental health doesn’t exist in her eyes. She is an awful person with no compassion…literally stay away.
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Date: April 25, 2022
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Emotionally abusive and manipulative. While participating in sports for a university, you understand it is like a business. However your entire presence as a human person is diminished to something she can use. She treats you like an object. She made me hate the sport and the aspect of mental health doesn’t exist in her eyes. She is an awful person with no compassion…literally stay away.
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Get ready to transfer

Date: April 25, 2022
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It was horrid. She is a toxic manipulator.She lies to all her swimmers. She doesn’t care about any of them. She gaslights everyone she comes in contact with. And you are seen as a machine. Not a human being. Very unpersonable. She doesn’t really know anything. She made a forgein swimmer do tongue twisters in front of the team as a punishment for him being late to practice, she knowingly allows and creates drama within her team, and she does not know really anything about swimming.
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Date: April 25, 2022
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It was horrid. She is a toxic manipulator.She lies to all her swimmers. She doesn’t care about any of them. She gaslights everyone she comes in contact with. And you are seen as a machine. Not a human being. Very unpersonable. She doesn’t really know anything. She made a forgein swimmer do tongue twisters in front of the team as a punishment for him being late to practice, she knowingly allows and creates drama within her team, and she does not know really anything about swimming.
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High chance of not finishing your 4 years here

Date: April 25, 2022
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A robot. Don't even expect her to say happy birthday. You can expect her to cut you and half of the team every spring. Ask about their "rebuilding" year
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High chance of not finishing your 4 years here

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Date: April 25, 2022
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A robot. Don't even expect her to say happy birthday. You can expect her to cut you and half of the team every spring. Ask about their "rebuilding" year
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Disappointed

Date: April 13, 2022
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Unfortunately, the experience was not what I was promised when I was recruited nor was her attitude towards her athletes. The team has only gone down hill, the continuously changing staff and numbers of athletes that have transferred out or been cut proves this. Before choosing a school, do your research and try to find other athletes that will give you an honest opinion on the school.
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Date: April 13, 2022
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Unfortunately, the experience was not what I was promised when I was recruited nor was her attitude towards her athletes. The team has only gone down hill, the continuously changing staff and numbers of athletes that have transferred out or been cut proves this. Before choosing a school, do your research and try to find other athletes that will give you an honest opinion on the school.
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