Meet the Olympics: Marcio Sicoli
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Coincidentally, the year that Pepperdine added women’s sand volleyball to its athletic
roster is the same year that women’s volleyball assistant coach Marcio Sicoli makes
his U.S. debut at the Olympics as a consultant and trainer to reigning beach volleyball
champions Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor. Sicoli has been training the duo in the
run-up to the games, in the hopes of helping them secure a third Olympic Gold victory.
The seasoned Olympic veterans partnered with Sicoli based on his Olympic experience
as assistant coach for his native Brazilian Olympic women’s beach volleyball team
from 2000 to 2004. The players from his home country earned a Silver Medal at the
2004 games in Athens.
Sicoli has been training with Walsh and May-Treanor since March 2011, on the heels
of joining Pepperdine’s coaching crew in 2008 and serving as head coach of AVP women’s
beach volleyball team members before that from 2005 to 2007. He is also a coach at
the Beverly Hills-based Sports Shack Volleyball Club and earned the Sports Shack Coach
of the year Award in 2007.