La Salle University Athletics

Outside of La Salle, he is the Director of Coaching for CRUSA/FC Bucks and coaches the U-15 FC Bucks Revolution and U-15 Upper Dublin Force.

In his coaching career, Mannella has worked with several youth organizations including the Pittsgrove Soccer Club in New Jersey and the Tampa Knights Futbol Club in Tampa, Florida. He also spent a year in Columbia, SC where he coached at the Heathwood Hall Episcopal School. During the 1999 season, he was an assistant for the Villanova Wildcats, helping the Wildcats to a 14-8 record.

While at Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he was named to the 1998 All-Tournament Teams at the Miami (OH) Invitational and the Yale Tournament. In 1997, he received Midwestern Collegiate Conference All-Newcomer Team honors.

Mannella then played professional soccer with the USL's South Jersey Barons, playing alongside La Salle Head Coach Paul Royal throughout the 1999 and 2000 seasons. He was third in the USL's D3 league in assists in the 2000 season.

Mannella, who received his Bachelor of Arts degree in communications in 2003 from Wisconsin-Milwaukee, also holds a premier diploma from the National Coaches Association of America and a USSSF 'B' License.