About

Arruda’s Basketball Club offers youth basketball training focused on three major developmental goals. By putting our training focus on building basketball skills, understanding the fundamentals and establishing a growth mindset through competition, ABC seeks to develop student-athletes that are prepared to be successful in any facet of life.

Sweat Equity + Growth Mindset = Success

The program prides itself on three core values of:

Persistent Optimism
Permanent Presence
Open, Honest, Transparent Communication

This program strives to educate youth athletes in the Arlington Community not only how to be a better player but also a better person in a transformational manner through relationship building, habit stacking, and mindset building.

Arruda’s Basketball Club was founded by Josh Arruda in 2024.

Staff

Josh Arruda

Founder, Head Trainer and Coach

2x Atlantic East Conference Championship
2x NCAA Tournament Bid as Coach
2x Atlantic East Coaching Staff of the Year Award

Originally from Morrisville, Pennsylvania, which is just 30 minutes north of Philadelphia and across the Delaware River from New Jersey, Coach Arruda was immersed in high level basketball culture his whole life.

He played collegiately at McDaniel College, where he was a 2 year starter and team leader on the defensive end. His decision to play was based solely on the idea of becoming a future basketball coach. With Coaching always on his mind, as soon as he graduated, he was offered the opportunity to be the Graduate Assistant at Marymount University here in Arlington, Virginia. He took this opportunity and partnered it with his wealth of Camp experience at The Hoop Group and sought out to build a grassroots basketball program as well.

Now, after two strong years at Marymount and embodying both sweat equity and the growth mindset, Arruda’s Basketball Club has an awesome coaching staff alongside Coach Arruda and serves 130+ Youth Student-Athletes in the Arlington, Virginia area.