Dick Gould
Legendary Head Men’s Tennis Coach of the Stanford Cardinal
Hello everyone, welcome to The Coach Steve Clark PhD Show where the aim is to encourage, inspire and equip coaches, players and parents who in turn inspire and equip others to promote tennis, foster sportsmanship, and develop greater players and people. So thanks for joining me and I hope you can just sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation.
In this podcast you are in for a treat of Hall of Fame, collegiate-tennis-guru, and bar-setting proportions. My guest is long time friend and colleague Dick Gould, the long time head coach of Stanford Men’s Tennis. Coach Gould set the standard of success in collegiate tennis. As a recruiter, consummate promotor of the game and coach to so many national champions, All-Americans, olympians, world class and Grand Slam players, his handprint is impressive.
And his influence continues as the John L Hinds Director of Tennis At Stanford where he overseas major events (WTA events), community relations, fundraising, and inner city academic-tennis related programs for youth. He was the head coach for 38 years (1966-2004) at his Alma Mater (BS 1959, MA 1960) where he set the standard of college tennis in many ways (we will get to that later). He is the winningest tennis coach at the Farm 776-148 (.840), won 17 NCAA Team Championships! But the rest stems from this excellence: 10 NCAA Singles Champions, 7 NCAA Doubles Champions, 50 All Americans, and 9 players in top 15 ATP singles and 14 in top 10 doubles. ETC!
But more importantly, and the reasons actually for all the success, Dick is a contagious leader. He is habitually friendly, optimistic, congratulatory and makes those around him better and feel important. No wonder all this success follows.
We delve into great wealth of wisdom on these topics and more: Healthy competition, fundraising (Buck Club), how the game has changed, advice to parents and coaches, great coaches that influenced him, etc.
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