Michael Marchiano joined the men's soccer program as an assistant coach in March 2014. The 2019 season will be his sixth with the Greyhounds.
Prior to the 2018 season, Marchiano was named one of nine NCAA Division I assistant coaches to watch by TopDrawerSoccer, as he was instrumental in helping Loyola become one of the hottest programs on the rise in college soccer. Rebuilding a program that ranked 132nd and 180th in the NCAA RPI after the 2014 and 2015 seasons, respectively, he recruited and coached the Greyhounds to a No. 55 ranking in the NCAA RPI by the end of the 2017 season.
The overall tactician for the day-to-day operations of training and scouting within the program, Marchiano helped Loyola turn a 7-21-6 record after his first two seasons into a 31-16-5 mark ever since. As further proof of progress, he guided the program to an 11-goal upswing against the same team in the 2018 season opener, as Loyola downed Rutgers, 3-0, at Ridley Athletic Complex on August 25. The last time the two programs had met was in 2015, with Rutgers earning an 8-0 victory.
In the Patriot League, Marchiano has worked with Nichols to build a dominant program. Coming off a 2014 and 2015 season that saw the Greyhounds post a combined record of 2-13-3 in League play, Loyola has taken off since. The 2016 squad posted the biggest turnaround in Patriot League history, going from last place in 2015 (0-8-1) to second place in 2016 (6-1-2). The program continued to climb under Marchiano, with the 2017 team capturing the program's first-ever Patriot League Regular Season Championship and the 2018 team repeating the feat.
With a 20-4-3 record over the course of the 2016, 2017 and 2018 seasons and a .796 win percentage in conference play, that tops the Patriot League over that span of time, as no other team in the League has won at least five games in all three seasons.
Recruiting wise, Marchiano has been just as successful at identifying and developing some of the top talent in the Mid-Atlantic Region. For his efforts, Loyola's Class of 2020 became the program's first-ever nationally ranked recruiting class, being ranked 13th by College Soccer News in 2016.
In addition to his duties at Loyola, Marchiano has served as head coach of the Baltimore Armour 18/19 Academy team, with the squad achieving a record of 18 wins, six draws and five losses, with ranked 11th-best in the US Development Academy for the 2018 season. The team qualified for the Academy Playoffs, where they went unbeaten in the group stage.
Prior to coming to Loyola, Marchiano served two seasons as an assistant coach at Army West Point, where he helped the Black Knights to their best season since since 1996. In two years at Army, Marchiano helped the Black Knights turn a 4-10-3 record into a 12-3-3 mark in 2013 and a second-place finish in the Patriot League, its best placement since winning the league in 1996. Army also led the nation in shutout percentage last year, recording 12 shutouts in 18 contests. The Black Knights snagged rookie and goalkeeper of the year honors from the Patriot League, while Winston Boldt went on to earn All-America honors, becoming the program's first All-American since 1974. Bolt also garnered Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year and Academic All-America accolades.
Before Army, Marchiano spent two seasons as a volunteer assistant coach at Maryland before heading to Wisconsin-Milwaukee as an assistant coach. In College Park, he helped his alma mater to a 34-9-3 record in those two seasons and back-to-back appearances in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tournament.
As a collegiate student-athlete, Marchiano played in 59 games at Maryland from 2005-08. He helped the Terrapins to a 68-18-8 record and a pair of Atlantic Coast Conference Championships and NCAA titles in 2005 and 2008. A two-time team captain, he was awarded the team's Peter Lowry Award as a senior, an honor given to the team member who exemplifies academic excellence, leadership and distinguished citizenship on campus.
Post-collegiately, Marchiano had a brief playing career with Real Maryland of the United Soccer League and spent a year working in the private sector of the Wasserman Media Group.
A native of Bel Air, Md., Marchiano graduated from Maryland in 2009 with a bachelor of arts degree in economics. He and his wife, Kelley, have one daughter, Mila.
