Overview
- People and other outlets published new human-interest profiles that refocus attention on Manette Cignetti as Curt Cignetti’s visibility grew after Indiana’s 2025 Big Ten title.
- They met while visiting family in Indiana, Pennsylvania, he proposed in December 1988, and they married on May 27, 1989.
- Manette has worked as a pharmacist throughout Curt’s college coaching career, and he has publicly praised her as a “superstar” in their family life.
- The couple share three children—Curt Jr., Carly and Natalie—with the daughters in medicine, Natalie a former IUP volleyball player, and Curt Jr. working in medical sales; they are also grandparents to Sophia and Isabelle.
- Natalie got engaged in 2024 to Wake Forest’s Trent VanHorn, a detail noted in recent coverage.