Dick Gould, 17-time NCAA national champion and former Stanford tennis coach, leads by example, not just words, imparting early-life lessons to his players.

Episode #9 -In today's episode, I interview one of the greatest college coaches of all time. Coach Dick Gould is truly a college tennis coaching legend. As the head men’s tennis coach at Stanford University for 38 years his teams won 17 NCAA team championships and he holds a record of 776 wins and 148 losses. He has coached 10 NCAA singles champions, 7 NCAA doubles champions, 50 All-Americans, and nine players who reached the top 15 in the ATP world singles rankings at hold 72 Grand Slam Championships in singles, doubles, and mixed. He was named the ITA-Wilson "Coach of the Decade" both in the 1980s and the 1990s and was inducted into the USPTA Hall of Fame in 2019. He's the author of "Anatomy of a Champion" a book that focuses on championship traits shared by over 166 of his former players. In this podcast Coach Gould discusses his childhood, what makes him tick as a coach, his family, fundraising, and many other lessons he learned along the way. Coach Gould started his Built to Be journey as a coach at Foothills Junior College and found himself back at Standford after a tremendous playing career as the head coach in 1966. He never took the future of the Stanford program for granted. As you will learn through this conversation he worked tirelessly to endow every aspect of Stanford tennis so that future Stanford coaches would never have to worry about the sustainability of the programs. You will be inspired by his story as we walk through his Built to Be journey to become the man he is today.  Book: Anatomy of a Champion https://anatomyofachampion.net/ My 57-Year Stanford Story https://stanford_ftp.sidearmsports.com/custompages/Feature/DickGould/index.html EPATT https://www.epatt.org/board-of-directors TeachAids Concussion Awareness https://teachaids.org/updates/tag/dick-gould/