Bio

Jason Arnold is in his third season as the head baseball coach at Eastern Florida State College after setting records as a pitcher at UCF and then playing professionally before helping Bethune-Cookman to back-to-back MEAC regular season and tournament championships. He has also been the pitching coach at Georgia State before returning to Brevard County to take over the Satellite High program in 2012.

In his first season with the Titans, Arnold's team finished with 31 wins and made it to the Southern Conference Tournament, falling in the final game. Last season the team was 12-14 in a shortened season.

At Satellite High, Arnold was the 2018 District and Cape Coast Conference Coach of the Year and won two district championships and was the runner-up twice. He was 104-64 in his six seasons with the Scorpions.

As a pitcher at UCF, Arnold won 173 games and is the program’s all-time leader in appearances, relief appearances and saves, and is second all-time in wins, strikeouts and ERA. In 2006, he became the first pitcher inducted into the UCF Athletics Hall of Fame.

After college, Arnold was drafted in the second round by the New York Yankees in 2001.

In 2005, he was moved to the bullpen but injuries shortened his career and he retired from baseball after the 2006 season. He compiled a career record of 29-26 with a 3.33 ERA in over 530 innings pitched in minor league baseball, striking out 465 and walking just 179.

After retiring from professional baseball, he spent two years as a high school English teacher and head baseball coach at Cocoa High School, compiling a 19-8 season record in 2008. He was also the founder and head coach of a summer showcase team, the Brevard Aces.

Arnold spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons at Bethune-Cookman University, helping lead the Wildcats to back-to-back MEAC regular season and tournament championships, making a pair of NCAA Regional berths. 

In 2009, the team finished the year 18^th in the NCAA in strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing the 27^th fewest hits allowed per nine innings and setting a school record with 482 strikeouts. The Wildcats led the MEAC in every major pitching statistical category and had a pair of senior pitchers drafted. In 2010, the Wildcats finished 21^st in the nation in strikeouts per nine innings, while only 31 of the 473 innings pitched were thrown by seniors.

In the summer of 2010, Arnold took a job with his former UCF coach Greg Frady at Georgia State and led them to the lowest team ERA in school history (4.29) in 2011, In 2012, Arnold had eight new pitchers on the staff and guided them to 24 wins, four complete games and a couple of shutouts as Georgia State remained in contention until the final day of the regular season.

The Satellite High baseball coach and athletic director took over for Jeff Tam who went 185-134 in six and a half seasons with the Titans.