Murray Arnold

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Murray Arnold (born March 4,  1938 in University Park ( Maryland ), † November 13,  2012 in DeLand ( Florida )) was an American basketball coach .

Life

Arnold graduated from the American University in Washington, DC

He began his coaching career in 1960 at DeLand High School, from 1966 he was coach of Longwood Lyman High School and then moved to university basketball in 1968. After a year as a member of the coaching staff at Florida State University , he took up a  post as head coach at Birmingham-Southern College in 1970 and held this position until 1978. Birmingham-Southern's basketball team recorded 159 wins and 74 losses during his tenure. In 1987 he was inducted into the Birmingham-Southern Sports Hall of Fame .

In the 1978/79 season Arnold worked as an assistant coach at Mississippi State University and took on the role of head coach of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the 1979/80 game year . He led the team to a total of 135 wins (with 46 losses) and four championship titles in the Southern Conference . In 1985 he left college and switched to professional business, in the 1985/86 season he was assistant coach of the Chicago Bulls in the NBA . After that, Arnold was from 1986 to 1990 head coach of the basketball team at Western Kentucky University , with which he once won the title in the Sun Belt Conference .

For the 1990/91 season Arnold was head coach of the German Bundesliga club Steiner Bayreuth , but was dismissed after league games in which there were defeats. In retrospect, it was said that he was unable to form a unit from the remaining players in the Bayreuth championship team from 1989 and new signings. In 1991 he led the Perth Wildcats to win the Australian Championship. Arnold went back to the United States, coached the basketball players of the Okaloosa-Walton Community College in the 1994/95 game year and won the junior college championship with them. The last station of his coaching career was Stetson University (1997 to 2000). Thus, at the end of his career, he worked again in DeLand, the place where he had started his career.

Arnold succumbed to cancer.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c BRENT Woronoff: Murray Arnold, former DeLand High, Stetson basketball coach, this . In: Daytona Beach News-Journal . November 14, 2012.
  2. Jump up ↑ Former Hatters Coach Murray Arnold Dies. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Chicago Bulls' Murray Arnold named Western Kentucky coach. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 25 years ago: Head Coach Murray Arnold fired after just three match days. Medi Bayreuth, accessed April 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Wildcats mourn title-winning coach. November 16, 2012, accessed April 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ex-Mocs coach Murray Arnold dies at 74th November 15th, 2012, accessed on April 29th, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Murray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH University Park (Maryland) , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2012
Place of death DeLand , Florida