Kevin Margarucci is serving as the athletic trainer for the U.S. Youth Olympic Men’s Hockey Team for the first time in 2024. He most recently held the same position for the U.S.Under-17 Men's Select Team that placed second at the 2023 Five Nations Tournament.

Margarucci brings more than 25 years of experience as a certified athletic trainer and has been involved in hockey for more than 35 years. He currently serves as USA Hockey’s manager of player of safety, where he is engaged with USA Hockey councils, committees, sections and staff in addition to external constituent groups, in all areas of safety, with a focus on education and research.

Margarucci served as head athletic trainer and was a teacher at Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument, Colo., from 2001-15, where he worked with the school’s interscholastic teams and helped develop a concussion management plan for the district’s student-athletes. He was also an assistant boy’s hockey coach at Lewis-Palmer from 2006-17, and head coach from 2017-19.

Over the course of his career, he has worked as an athletic trainer in high school, collegiate, hospital and clinical settings as well as with the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee.

Margarucci holds a master’s degree in athletic training from Indiana State University and a bachelor’s degree in physical education and athletic training from the State University of New York College at Brockport.

He has been widely involved with the Colorado Athletic Trainers’ Association both as chair of the public relations committee (2004-07) and as part of the governmental affairs committee (2007-15). He currently serves on the executive committee for the Hockey Equipment Certification Council.