ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nate Arnold, a dynamic young coach with profound knowledge in jumps, has been named an assistant track and field coach at Cornell University. He has experience in all aspects of assisting Division I programs and has hands-on experience working with sprinters, jumpers, vaulters and multi-event athletes. With the Big Red, Arnold will serve as the jumps coach for both the men's and women's programs.
 
"This is an exciting hire for Cornell Track & Field," says Rich Bowman, The Alan B. '53 and Elizabeth Heekin Harris Head Coach of Women's Track & Field/Cross Country & Director of Track and Field.  "Nate brings great expertise in all of the jumps events and an added experience working with multi-eventers.  His background in mentoring scholar-athletes at both William & Mary and Duke were important factors regarding his fit at Cornell, and I know he can't wait to get started."
 
In two seasons at William & Mary, Arnold coached one NCAA DI Indoor All-American, two regional qualifiers, two IC4A Champions, two CAA Champions, and three school record holders.
 
In his final campaign at William & Mary, Arnold helped women's high jumper Abby Jones to the CAA title, a first for the Tribe since 2001. Jones, along with her teammates Grace Becker and Minna McFarland, helped W&M become one of just 19 schools in the country to have three jumpers all over 1.70m (5-7) in the 2017 season. Jones also became the Tribes first NCAA qualifier in the high jump since 1994. Indoors, Arnold helped put three women in the top-six all-time in the 60m dash, and two in the top-six of the 60m hurdles, while outdoors, the Tribe put up its fastest SMR time since 1998 and fastest 4x200m time since 2010.
 
Arnold made an immediate impact on the Tribe track and field program. In his very first season, he helped tutor CAA and IC4A pole vaulter Derek O'Connell to a seventh-place All-America finish at the NCAA championships. He set school records in the event both indoors and outdoors. Davion Hutt, broke a nearly 50-year-old school record in the 100 meters outdoors and registered the top 10 times in school history indoors in the 60 meters. Multi-specialist Alex Hedrick set lifetime-bests both indoors and outdoors, breaking his own school record in the heptathlon to earn All-East honors indoors and placed at the CAA Championships and fourth at IC4As in the decathlon outdoors. Freshman Brianna Miller quickly developed into one of the conference's top multi-event competitors. She was the CAA runner-up in the heptathlon and ranked as the Tribe's top long and triple jumper. Abby Jones soared over a lifetime-best 1.70m (5-7) to take second at the conference meet and qualify for the ECAC Championships for the first time.
 
Prior to his time in Williamsburg, Va., Arnold spent one season as a volunteer assistant at Duke and two seasons as a graduate assistant at the University of the Cumberlands. While working with the Blue Devil student-athletes in the pole vault and multi-events, three qualified for NCAA East Preliminaries and Megan Clark took second in the pole vault at the NCAA Indoor Championships. His athletes also won ACC titles in the women's pole vault (indoors and outdoors) and the decathlon and had six other place-winners. His time at Cumberlands produced two Mid-South conference champions (men's pole vault, men's javelin) and a total of eight conference medalists as the men's team won the Mid-South title and the women placed second. He was responsible for the jumps and multi-events, and also helped plan and direct the strength program for the sprinters. 
 
While an athlete at the University of Memphis and shortly after graduating, Arnold took coaching internships in Europe. In the summer of 2012, he learned under former Olympian Aleksandrs Obizajevs in Latvia, focusing on the technical and power development of high-level athletes, as well as the psychology of the pole vault. Later that same summer, he worked with Polish professional coach Wiaczeslaw Kaliniczenko on strength and gymnastics-based training styles and techniques for the pole vault. Arnold spent two stints, in the summer of 2013 and winter of 2014, learning under German coach Wolfgang Striezel for the speed development and event techniques for intermediate to advanced-level athletes in the multi-events.
 
A 2013 graduate of Memphis with a degree in liberal studies, Arnold was a multiple-time scorer at the Conference USA championships both indoors and outdoors in the pole vault. He qualified for the 2013 NCAA East Preliminaries and cleared a best height of 16-4.