Tiverton High's Arcouette Receives 2011 Coach of the Year Nomination

boys' basketball head coach Gerald "Gerry" Arcouette is one of five high school sports coaches statewide nominated for the 2011 Coach of the Year award from Cox Rhode Island Sports.

The winner will be revealed at the fifth annual Cox RI Sports Awards presented by the RI National Guard on Wednesday, June 15 at the Rhode Island Convention Center.

Arcouette and his basketball team became the Cinderella story of the state basketball tournament. The Tigers, who play in Division II, knocked off Division I’s La Salle Academy, Bishop Hendricken High School and Central High School () to reach the state finals before .

Cox Sports and the RI National Guard will honor the state’s best scholar-athletes from Woonsocket to Westerly and the top college athletes at the Cox RI Sports Awards. The Ocean State’s best high school scholar-athletes from each sport for every season, as well as the Team of the Year and Coach of the Year, will be announced. State Championship teams from each season will also be honored. A highlight show of the awards dinner will be broadcast on Cox Sports.

For more information visit www.cox-sports.com.