STANFORD, Calif. – Dick Gould, one of collegiate tennis' most decorated coaches of all time, will be inducted into the Pac-12 Hall of Honor.
As the winningest coach in NCAA men's tennis history, Gould guided Stanford to 17 NCAA championships in 38 seasons at the helm. In addition to playing collegiately at Stanford and coaching the Cardinal from 1967-2004, the Stanford mentor continued working in the athletic department as the John L. Hinds Director of Tennis, wrapping up a Stanford career that spanned 57 years.
In 38 seasons as head coach, he led Stanford to a 776-148 overall record, produced 50 AllAmericans and mentored 10 NCAA singles champions and seven NCAA doubles titles. The Cardinal won four straight NCAA crowns from 1995-98, posting a 28-0 record in 1998 while losing only three dual-match points the entire season. For a 34-year period, every four-year letterwinner earned at least one NCAA championship ring.
Gould, who was enshrined into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994, is also a member of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Fame (2006) and the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame (2006). He was voted the Pac-12 Men's Tennis Coach of the Century in 2016.
An innovator both on and off the court, Gould's fundraising efforts resulted in one of the first personal seat license programs. He also spearheaded funds to create endowments that went towards building the Taube Family Tennis Stadium, coaching and assistant coaching positions, athletics scholarships, operations and facility maintenance and repair. His vision was instrumental in organizing the first combined men's and women's NCAA Tennis Championships, hosted at Taube Family Tennis Stadium in 2006.
The Pac-12 Hall of Honor induction ceremony will take place on Friday, March 15, at 4 p.m. PT in Las Vegas. The inductees will also be recognized at the Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament at T-Mobile Arena later that evening during a special ceremony at halftime of the tournament's first semifinal game.
The 2019 Hall of Honor class will be the 18th since its creation in 2002, and the second to feature legendary figures from an array of sports after the Pac-12 last season expanded the field to be inclusive of the broad-based athletics success across the Conference of Champions. Kerri Walsh Jennings, one of Stanford's greatest volleyball players of all-time, was enshrined as part of the Pac-12's 2018 Hall of Honor Class.
Gould is part of the 2019 Pac-12 Hall of Honor Class that includes Meg Ritchie-Stone (Arizona), Frank Kush (Arizona State), Ann Meyers Drysdale (UCLA), Natalie Coughlin (California), Ronnie Lott (USC), Lisa Van Goor (Colorado), Steve Smith Sr. (Utah), Bev Smith (Oregon), Patricia "Trish" Bostrom (Washington), Dick Fosbury (Oregon State) and John Olerud (Washington State).