Arnett Chisholm enters his 21st season as an assistant coach with the University of Michigan women's track and field program in 2011. He works with the Wolverine sprinters and hurdlers.
Chisholm helped Tiffany Ofili to five national championships during her career, three in the 100-meter hurdles (2007-09) and two in the 60-meter hurdles (2008-09). Ofili finished her career with school records in the 60-meter hurdles, 60-meter dash and 100-meter dash.
Chisholm guided Vera Simms to consecutive Big Ten Conference individual titles in the 400-meter hurdles in 2002 and 2003. During the 2002 season, Simms became the first Michigan hurdler to claim an individual crown since the inception of the Big Ten Championships in 1982. He also helped Robin Landfair find the form that allowed her to set the 100-meter hurdle school record of 13.42 in 2003. Two of his athletes, Kiana Stringfield and Keri Kirk, scored in the 400-meter hurdles at Big Ten Outdoors in 2005, placing sixth and seventh, respectively. Chisholm joined the Michigan women's track and field coaching staff in November 1990 after serving as a volunteer coach in hurdles events with the Wolverine men's track and field program.
A former Michigan sprinter and hurdler, Chisholm earned four track and field letters (1976-79). He was a member of three Michigan Big Ten Conference 4x100-meter relay championship teams. Chisholm earned NCAA All-America honors in 1978, running with the Wolverines' 4x100m relay squad. Chisholm holds an undergraduate degree in education from the University of Michigan (1979).
He earned a Master of Arts degree in counseling from Eastern Michigan University in 1990. Chisholm is the dean of admissions at Washtenaw Community College. He and his wife, Debra, and their daughter live in Romulus.
