RICHARDSON, TX (04.21.20) - After her first season with the UT Dallas women's basketball program, assistant coach Olivia Cicci has been honored as the Small College Assistant Coach of the Year by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC).

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Cicci helped lead the Comets a 23-6 overall record as well as a fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Division III National Tournament. UTD claimed the regular-season title of the American Southwest Conference's East Division, posting a 15-1 league record in 2019-20, with the Comets advancing to the semifinals of the ASC's postseason tournament. UTD collected a first-round victory in the NCAA D-III postseason for the third straight spring.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Cicci joined the Comets as a full-time assistant coach prior to the 2019-20 season after one season as an assistant coach at NCAA D-II Texas A&M-Commerce.

As a student-athlete at Austin College, Cicci is familiar with NCAA D-III as well, serving as a team captain for the Lady 'Roos as a senior. She helped lift AC to a pair of Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) titles along with an 82-48 record during her four-year playing career. Cicci received bachelor's degree in Athletic Communications with a minor in Education in 2017, while earning her master's degree in Teaching from AC in 2018.