Arden Sansom graduated from Barboursville High School in 1989. Arden's involvement in wrestling began in 7th grade at Barboursville High School as the team manager and statistician, after previously being involved mostly as the official scorekeeper for his brother's Wagoner's Tradewell Little League baseball team. His first wrestling coach was Rick Newman, a history teacher and trivia player, who remains his friend and occasional trivia teammate to this day.

At Barboursville High School, Arden also served as team manager and statistician under fellow Hall of Fame Inductee Coach Ernie Sparks. After earning membership into the Society of Yeager Scholars at Marshall University, Arden remained in Huntington and began working as an official scorer and timekeeper at the WV State Wrestling Tournament. Here, he met and began a lifelong friendship with Coach Bill Archer. In 1992, when Coach Archer and others took a team of high school wrestlers to Freiburg Germany for an international dual, Arden served as one of the team chaperones as well as the official timekeeper for the matches. Finally, and most recently, he served as the Class AA/A Announcer at the State Tournament from around 1996 until 2020.

Arden now lives in Galveston, Texas working as a Regional Economist for the US Army Corps of Engineers. He began his career with the Corps at Huntington District in 1995 and had stints in Sacramento, Fort Worth, and San Francisco Districts along the way. He has been an avid disabled scuba diver since 2009, with approximately 325 dives completed. For the past several years, he has become active in the Uniquely Me Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Dallas, TX that raises awareness and shares knowledge for the rare genetic condition called TARS (Thrombocytopenia Absent Radius Syndrome) and Limb Differences with others and their parents.

He's a bachelor and has two German Shepherd Dogs - Lex and Heidi.