Kelsey Arnold - Assistant Coach - Staff Directory

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Kelsey Arnold

Title:
Assistant Coach

Bio

Kelsey Arnold enters her fourth season as a member of the Kansas rowing coaching staff for the 2017-18 season. Arnold, a graduate of Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, was named an assistant coach for the KU women’s rowing team in August of 2014.

During the 2015-16 season, Arnold coached the Third Varsity Eight to a second-place finish at the Knecht Cup in New Jersey. The Third Varsity Eight also contributed to the sweep of Kansas State in the Dillon’s Sunflower Showdown.

In her first season with the Jayhawks, Arnold led the Third Varsity Eight rowers to a third-place finish at the Big 12 Championship and a first-place finish against Kansas State to help win the Kansas Cup.

A walk-on rower at GVSU, she was a member of the Laker Navy powerhouse from 2007-11. She earned the ACRA National Championship title in the novice eight and twice in the varsity eight and made the ACRA All-American first team all three years on varsity. Other highlights include a first-place finish in the Collegiate eight at the Head of the Charles in 2009, and gold in the Dad Vail novice eight and D1 varsity eight. Overseas, she competed at the Women’s Henley Regatta in the senior eight and Elite eight in 2008 and 2010 in Henley, England. Arnold also rowed outside of GVSU at Vesper Boat Club in the summer of 2008 and the U-23 National Team Selection Camp in 2009.

From the coaching side, Arnold worked primarily with the novice team at Grand Valley from 2011-14. In her first season, the novice four took gold at SIRA and bronze at Dad Vail, and the novice eight brought home the ACRA National Championship. In her second season, the novice eight went undefeated, claiming victories at the Occoquan Sprints, MACRA, Dad Vail, and the ACRA National Championship. In her third season, the novice four took silver at Dad Vail and three novices made the All-American Freshman boat.

Arnold has also coached learn-to-row and competitive programs for youth, juniors, and masters at the Grand Rapids Rowing Association, the Detroit Women’s Rowing Association, and Southeast Juniors Rowing Development Camp.