My Ideal Team

DICK GOULD: Stanford  Coach and Director of Tennis since 1966  (Retiring on 1/15/18)                            

Dean’s List Scholar; Buck Club Leadership Award for Tennis

COACHING EXPERIENCE:

 Stanford Men’s Tennis Coach – 38 years (1966-2004): Current: John L. Hinds Director of Tennis - Highlights:

•  17 NCAA Team Championships (88 wins, 11 losses in NCAA team championship competition)

• 10 NCAA singles champions  (5 others = runner-ups, 8 others have reached the semi  finals)
•  7 NCAA doubles championship teams (8 other payers have reached the finals); 50 All Americans
•  College coach of  9 players who reached top 15 in ATP world singles rankings and 14 players who reached top 10 in ATP world doubles rankings (7 attained a #1 world doubles ranking – 11 have won Grand Slam Doubles Championships); Wimbledon: 1982 Singles - 8 former Stanford players reached at least the Round of  32; 1983 - 4 reached at least the Quarterfinals

U.S. Olympic Committee "Coach of the Year" (1998)

Inter collegiate Tennis Association "Coach of the Decade" - 1980's; 1990’s

Pac-12 Conference Tennis “Coach of the Century”

Spearheaded a $20 million facility renovation drive that has resulted in The Taube Center, the host of the first ever combined Men’s & Women’s NCAA Championships  in 2006 and again in 2011

Stanford  Class of 1959,  MA (Education)  1960. Married to Anne, coach of first women’s national championship in any sport at Stanford  (Tennis, 1978).  Five grown children, three of whom were captains of respective college swim and volleyball teams; 16 grand children, 2 great grand children.