Marlon Sano is the founder of the Oceans Elite Volleyball Club. He has over 20 years of coaching experience, including 10 years at his alma mater, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, where he helped with the resurgence of the Mustang volleyball program with three berths into the NCAA Tournament.
Prior to coaching at his alma mater, Marlon was the head coach at Utah State. He arrived in Logan, Utah, in the winter of 1991 and coached through the 1993 season. Before his stint at USU, he was an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton from 1989-91 and the head coach at Southern California College from 1988-89.
From 1982-84, he served as an assistant coach for the 1984 for the silver medal-winning U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team. That squad also won the bronze medal at the 1982 World Championships and a pair of gold medals at the 1983 Pan Am Games and the NORCECA Zonals Championships.
Marlon has experience coaching on the club level, directing highly successful teams in both Southern California and Utah. Among his best teams were seven squads that earned a Top-10 national ranking. Eighty-four players who played under Sano at the club level went on to receive collegiate scholarships. Nine of those players were selected as High School All-Americans, and 14 have appeared in Volleyball Magazine as a "Fab 50" selection.
A 1979 graduate of Cal Poly, Marlon and his wife, Misty, have two children, Markus, and Madison