| Ryan Gensler | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Akron |
| Current Conference: | MAC |
| Current Record: | 11–18 |
| Birth Date: | 3 April 1987 |
| Alma Mater: | Saint Joseph's University |
| Coach Years1: | 2009–2011 |
| Coach Team1: | Providence (GA) |
| Coach Years2: | 2011–2013 |
| Coach Team2: | St. Bonaventure (asst.) |
| Coach Years3: | 2013–2015 |
| Coach Team3: | Loyola (MD) (asst.) |
| Coach Years4: | 2015–2017 |
| Coach Team4: | Florida (Video Coord.) |
| Coach Years5: | 2017–2022 |
| Coach Team5: | Dayton (asst.) |
| Coach Years6: | 2022–2023 |
| Coach Team6: | Illinois (asst.) |
| Coach Years7: | 2023–present |
| Coach Team7: | Akron |
| Overall Record: | 11–18 |
Ryan Gensler is an American women's basketball coach. He is currently the women's basketball head coach at the University of Akron.[1]
Gensler is a native of Syracuse, New York.[2] He attended high school at Christian Brothers Academy where he played basketball and football.[3] He received a bachelor's degree in political science with a minor in business from Saint Joseph's University in 2009.[4] 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.[5]
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.[2] 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.[3] He moved with Green to Illinois in 2022 when she accepted the head coaching position there.[6] [7]
On March 29, 2023, he accepted the position as the head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Akron.[2]
He and his wife, Leanna, have two sons.[8] [4]