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James Manning

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Director of Operations
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James Manning joined the Ohio State women's lacrosse program as the director of operations in Summer 2023.

Manning held the same position with current Buckeye head coach Amanda Moore at East Carolina and also spent a season at Rutgers as a student manager while in graduate school. He was a student manager for the Pirates throughout his undergraduate career.

Manning started his career in lacrosse as a student manager for Moore and the Pirates in August 2018. While a student at ECU he also worked as a game operations intern and a marketing intern and he has been a gameday operations intern for the New Jersey Jackals baseball team.

In 2021-22 Manning worked with the Rutgers women's lacrosse program and was a marketing and fan experience intern while earning his master's degree in global sports business. The Scarlet Knights reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament that season. He returned to ECU as its director of operations in July 2022.

A native of Cranford, N.J., Manning received his bachelor's degree in sports studies, while a minor in business administration, from East Carolina in 2021.