Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Assoc. Head Coach
215-895-2348
arnold@drexel.edu
Associate Head Coach Geoff Arnold is his seventh 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 four 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 student-athletes who went on to win the league’s Most Improved Player, the Defensive Player of the Year and the 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. 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. They reside in Philadelphia with their 10-year old daughter, Gabrielle Tryce.
