Marcello Lio joined the St. Andrew’s College faculty in 2019. He graduated from York University with a Specialized Honours BA in Kinesiology and Health Sciences and earned his B. Ed from the University of Windsor.
Marcello is the Assistant Athletic Director, Football Director, 1st Football Head Coach, and 1st Basketball Assistant Coach. Marcello has a breadth of football coaching experience, including youth, high school, university, professional, and national levels. Marcello was the head coach at the youth level with the Metro Toronto Wildcats from 2012-2016, where his teams earned both a Tyke and Atom Championship in the OMFL. In 2015, Marcello received the Metro Toronto Wildcat Coach of the Year award. He was also the head coach of the Vaughan Rebels Bantam team. Intrigued by an opportunity to pioneer a new football program, he took a teaching position at Villanova College School in 2002 to kick-start the school’s first-ever football program as the head football coach. Marcello has seen many of his players move on to the U Sports and NCAA level. In 2006, he took a sabbatical from Villanova College to coach professionally and served as the offensive coordinator/QB coach of the Bergamo Lions in the Italian Football League. The team won the IFL championship that year.
Marcello was a quarterback for York University of the Ontario Universities Athletic Association and played professionally in the German and Italian Football Leagues from 1997-2001. Marcello has been working with and developing young quarterbacks for over 20 years. At the national level, Marcello was selected as Canada's Junior National Team Quarterback Coach and helped the Junior National Team to a silver medal in the 2014 World Junior Championships in Kuwait.
