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Geoff Arnold is now in his fifth season as Drexel’s
Associate Head Coach. Arnold, a former Flint
teammate at St. Joseph’s University, has been
instrumental in Drexel’s recruiting efforts and to
the team’s two postseason berths since arriving in
University City. He will continue to oversee
recruiting efforts and will work primarily with the
Drexel guards.
Before arriving at Drexel, Arnold spent five seasons
at UMass, including two seasons as an associate head
coach. During his time at UMass, Arnold recruited a
number of Minutemen who went on to earn Atlantic 10
accolades, including Kit Rhymer and Micah Brand,
both of whom were named the Atlantic 10’s Most
Improved Player during their careers. Rhymer was
also named the League’s Defensive Player of the
Year. In addition, Arnold recruited Anthony
Anderson, the 2001-02 Atlantic 10 Rookie of the
Year.
Arnold served as an assistant at Saint Joseph’s
under head coaches John Griffin and Phil Martelli
for four seasons before joining Flint in Amherst.
During his time with the Hawks, he quietly became
one of the East Coast’s top recruiters, serving as
the point man in the recruitment of such talent as
Rashid Bey, Arthur “Yah” Davis and Duval Simmonds.
With that talent, Saint Joseph’s advanced to three
NIT Tournaments in four years from 1993-96, reaching
the title game in Madison Square Garden in 1996
before falling to Nebraska.
One of the top guards in school history, the 1986
Saint Joseph’s graduate was a tri-captain on the
1985-86 Hawk squad that tied a then school record
with 26 wins en route to the Atlantic 10 Conference
championship and an NCAA Tournament appearance.
During his senior campaign, he averaged 8.9
points-per-game and led the team with 134 assists,
the ninth-highest single-season total in school
history at the time. Arnold, a former teammate of
Coach “Bruiser” Flint still ranks 11th all-time at
the school with 346 career assists. He was inducted
into the Saint Joseph’s University Hall of Fame in
1992.
Upon graduation, Arnold was drafted by the Wildwood
Aces of the United States Basketball League. He
played one season for the Aces before serving one
year as a part-time assistant coach during the
1988-89 season for his alma mater. Arnold then
worked as a technical sales representative at DuPont
Printing & Publishing in Glen Rock, N.J., prior to
returning to coaching as a full-time aide at St.
Joseph’s for the 1992-93 season.
Arnold and Flint were three-year teammates while
playing for the Hawks, but the duo actually first
met on the court years before while playing in the
Sonny Hill “Futures” League on all-star teams when
Arnold was 13 and Flint, 12.
Arnold’s wife, Stephanie, is a 1986 graduate of
Drexel University and earned her law degree from
Temple University in May 1997. She also has a
master’s degree in sports management from the
University of Massachusetts and teaches at the
University of Pennsylvania. The Arnolds reside in
Philadelphia with their eight-year old daughter,
Gabrielle Tryce. |
