Ryan Gensler


Ryan Gensler is an American women's basketball coach. He is currently the women's basketball head coach at the University of Akron.

Early life and education

Gensler is a native of Syracuse, New York. He attended high school at Christian Brothers Academy where he played basketball and football. He received a bachelor's degree in political science with a minor in business from Saint Joseph's University in 2009. He earned a master's degree in education from Providence College while working as a graduate assistant and director of basketball operations for the women's basketball team.

Coaching career

He served as an assistant coach on the women's basketball staff at St. Bonaventure and Loyola (MD) before taking a position as video coordinator at Florida. He returned to the Atlantic 10 in 2017 as an assistant coach at Dayton under head coach Shauna Green, with whom he had worked at Providence while she was an assistant. He moved with Green to Illinois in 2022 when she accepted the head coaching position there.

Akron

On March 29, 2023, he accepted the position as the head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Akron.

Personal life

He and his wife, Leanna, have two sons.