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Associate
Head Coach Geoff Arnold is his sixth
season as Drexel's top assistant. Arnold,
a former Flint teammate at Saint Joseph's
University, has been instrumental in
Drexel's recruiting efforts and to the
team's three 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 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 Saint 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 sport management from the University of
Massachusetts and teaches at the
University of Pennsylvania. The Arnolds
reside in Philadelphia with their
nine-year old daughter, Gabrielle Tryce.
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