Ronnie Arrow
Hometown: Houston,TX
Sport: Basketball
Years Played: 1966-1969
Hall of Honor Induction: 1988

Ronnie Lee Arrow was born August 28, 1947 in Houston, Texas, and was inducted into the Hall of Honors in 1988. Arrow was a two-year All-Lone Star Conference honoree and a three-year letterman at Southwest Texas State. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in health and physical education in 1969. Shortly there after he began his coaching career by serving three years as a graduate assistant coach at Sam Houston State. His next stop was his first head coaching position, at Pasadena High School in 1972-73, where he won the District 23-4A coach of the year honors. Arrow's big break came in 1977 where he was named Head Coach at San Jacinto Community College. Arrow had quite a run during his tenure as head coach which lasted from 1977-1987 tallying a record of 302-43 guding the the Ravens to 10 Texas Junior College Athletic Conference titles as well as NJCAA championships in 1983, 1984 and 1986. He was named the NJCAA Region XIV Coach-of-the-Year in 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987 and the national Coach-of-the-Year in 1983 and 1986. His 1985-86 squad led the nation in scoring, averaging 101 points per game. Arrow's next stop was in South Alabama, where he was named head coach of the Jaguars in July 1,1988. During his seven seasons as the Jaguars coach, Arrow compiled a record of 114-93. Arrow was named Sun Belt Coach of the Year in 1989 after guiding the Jaguars to regular and post-season tournament SunBelt titles. South Alabama finished with a 23-9 mark, a first round NCAA Tournament victory over cross-state rival Alabama before falling 91-82 to the eventual national champion Michigan in the second round. The Jags finished the season ranked 24th in the country. In the summer of 1989, Arrow coached the United States Junior World Cup Team to a perfect 7-0 record and the gold medal at the Pan-Amnerican Basketball Confederatio (COPABA) Junior World Championship in Uruguay.Among his players were future NBA stars Grant Hill, Calbert Cheaney and Allan Houston. Following the 1990-1991 season, Arrow was named the Sun Belt Conference Coach-of-the-Year for the second time after engineering the most dramatic turnaround in league history. That year, his Jaguars became the first SunBelt squad ever to leap from last to first place in a single season. Projected to finish fifth in the conference, South Alabama went on to capture the league crown with an 11-3 mark. The Jags finished the season with a 22-9 record, swept through the Sun Belt Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament before falling to Utah in the first-round. Over the years, Arrow developed a reputation for up-tempo, high-scoring teams. His squads led the Sun Belt Conference in scoring four of his seven seasons at South Alabama.His 1988-89 squad set a school and league record 91 points per game average and five of his seven teams tallied at least 80 points per game. Arrow became the first basketball coach at Texas A&M Corpus Christi in 1998 and starting a program that had been non existant for 25 years. Arrow put Texas A&M Corpus Christi on the national map in 2003 when they were ranked in the top-25 Mid-Major Poll nearly the entire season last year and even received votes in the ESPN/USA Today Top-25 Coaches Poll during the 2004-2005 season. During his tenure, Arrow led the Islanders to wins over such programs as Texas Tech and Texas A&M, as well as 2004 NCAA Tournament-qualifier Murray State In 2007 Arrow and the Islanders earned their first birth in the NCAA Tournament at Midwest Regional as the #15 seed. They lost 76-63 to #2 seed Wisconsin in the first round. Arrow was 134-91 in eight years at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. His last three years, the Islanders were 66-23. winning the Southland Conference regular-season and tournament titles and making the school's first NCAA appearance in 2007.He was named the 2007 Southland Conference Coach of the Year. On April 17, 2007 Arrow returned for a second tenure at South Alabama. Arrow intends to employ the same up-tempo style of basketball and build on the success of a South Alabama club that went 44-19 the last two years.