| Pam Arpe | ||
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Title | Assistant Director of Athletics/Head Field Hockey Coach |
| parpe@stonehill.edu | ||
| Phone | 508-565-1704 | |
After leading her charges to a conference tournament crown and the cusp of national championship glory last fall, Pam Arpe returns for her seventh season as Head Field Hockey Coach at Stonehill College looking to guide the Skyhawks to even greater heights. Already by far the winningest mentor in school history with 80 victories in six seasons, Arpe has established a winning tradition and a national presence that her squad looks to continue and enhance in 2006. The third coach in the program's 11-year varsity history, Arpe (pronounced are-pay) arrived in Easton in 2000 and has guided Stonehill to a berth in the Northeast-10 Conference playoffs in each of her first six seasons as well as a spot in the final National Field Hockey Coaches Association national top 10 in each of the last five.
Arpe's hard work and craft blossomed into fruition during the 2005 season, the best in Stonehill history, as the Skyhawks recorded a school-record 19 victories, including a school-record 15-match winning streak over the course of nearly two months. After ascending as high as the third spot in the NFHCA national rankings, Stonehill captured its first Northeast-10 Conference tournament title in dramatic fashion with a 2-1 overtime victory over top-seeded and eventual NCAA Division II national champion UMass Lowell on the River Hawks' home turf. Arpe's crew then earned its first-ever berth in the NCAA Division II National Championships, and before the largest crowd ever to witness a field hockey match on the Stonehill campus, the Skyhawks bested rival Bentley for the fourth time during the year with a 1-0 triumph in the NCAA national quarterfinals to earn a trip to Shippensburg, Pa. and the 2005 NCAA Division II National Semi-Finals. Though Stonehill dropped a tough 2-1 decision to UMass Lowell in the semis, the message sent by the Skyhawks was loud and clear--Arpe's team had arrived on the national scene.
After posting an eight-win season in her inaugural campaign in 2000, Stonehill enjoyed the best season in the program's history during Arpe's second year at the helm in 2001, as the Skyhawks posted an overall mark of 15-5 and finished the year ranked eighth nationally in Division II after being ranked as high as fourth in the NFHCA poll. Over the course of the 2001 and 2002 seasons, Arpe's crew posted a combined mark of 25-15 that included back-to-back ninth place spots in the final NFHCA Division II national rankings as well as a berth in the 2002 ECAC Division II Championship match, and since 2001 Stonehill has amassed a 72-32 (.692) mark under her tutelage, including a pair of back-to-back 13-win seasons in both 2003 and 2004.
As has been the case throughout her tenure at Stonehill, Arpe's crew has been recognized for their efforts both on the field and in the classroom, as she has produced 22 all-Northeast-10 performers as well four All-America standouts in Libby Hanna ?04, Kelly Latendresse ?07, Julie Michalos ?06 and Lindsay Breen ?06. n the classroom, Stonehill has ranked among the national leaders in Division II in team grade point average, and over the last four years alone the Skyhawks have placed the highest number of student-athletes on the NFCHA All-Academic team of any Northeast-10 institution.
A resident of Falmouth, Mass., Arpe came to Stonehill after serving for three seasons as the varsity field hockey coach at both Greely High School and North Yarmouth Academy in Maine. A 1972 graduate of Principia (Ill.) College with a degree in elementary education, Arpe served for four seasons as head field hockey coach at Greely High while also serving as the assistant athletic director and varsity girls tennis and field hockey coach at North Yarmouth Academy. She served for two seasons as both the Head Women's Basketball and Softball coach at her alma mater after spending eight years as the assistant athletic director and varsity girls tennis and field hockey coach at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, Conn., where she was the 1991 Connecticut Coach of the Year in girls tennis. Pam has additional experience as the varsity girls basketball and softball coach at Mt. Greylock High School in Williamstown, Mass. for three years and also served as the Assistant Field Hockey Coach at Williams College in 1985.
Off the field, Arpe was the treasurer of the Maine Field Hockey Association and was chair of the State of Connecticut Girls Tennis Committee in 1993-94. She has also served as camp director, program director and counselor at Camps Newfound/Owatonna in Harrison, Maine during the summer from 1989 to 1994. Arpe also served as the Head Girls Lacrosse Coach at Falmouth (Mass.) Academy for two years and led her squad to back-to-back league championships. For her efforts, she was tabbed as the 2001 and 2002 Cape Cod Times Girls Lacrosse Coach of the Year.
Pam begins a three-year term as chair of the NCAA Division II Field Hockey National Committee this year and also serves as the NCAA Rules Modifications Chair. She also serves on the NCAA Division II Women's Tennis Committee.
In addition to her duties as Head Field Hockey Coach at Stonehill, Arpe also serves as the Skyhawks' Head Women's Tennis Coach, as she guided her squad to its first outright Northeast-10 championship last spring with a perfect 12-0 league regular season mark, as Stonehill ended Bryant's three-year title run as well as the Bulldogs' 35-match conference winning streak. The Skyhawks advanced to the Northeast-10 tournament title match for the second straight year while earning its second NCAA tournament berth in as many seasons, and for her efforts Arpe was recognized by her peers as the 2006 Northeast-10 Women's Tennis Coach of the Year.
Pam, who also serves Stonehill in the role of Assistant Athletics Director, and her late husband, Bill, are the parents of two daughters: Ashley and Amanda. Amanda will serve as an assistant coach for her mother for a third straight season this fall.
The Arpe File
Year Won Lost Pct.
2000 8 11 .421
2001 15 5 .750
2002 12 7 .632
2003 13 8 .619
2004 13 9 .591
2005 19 3 .864
TOTALS 80 43 .650
