David Gould

David Ian Gould, (born 19 April 1965) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and coach.

Gould was part of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville, 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, and 2000 Sydney Paralympics. He was the top point scorer at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics, He retired after the 2002 World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, but subsequently became assistant coach of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 London Paralympics,

Personal life David Ian Gould was born in Adelaide on 19 April 1965. He is the youngest of three children, with an older brother and sister. He attended Croydon Park Primary School and Croydon High School in Adelaide. In July 1977, he became a paraplegic due to a near-fatal shooting accident.

Gould came from a sporting family; his sister played netball and his brother played basketball. He started playing basketball at the age of seven, and also played cricket for his school. He was selected for the South Australian Under 12 basketball team when he was eleven, and played against Andrew Gaze in a series against Victoria. After his accident, he began coaching junior basketball.

Gould's South Australian team, now known as the Adelaide Thunder, won the National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) championship in 1993. In 1994, with Gould as vice captain, the team were undefeated championships, and he received the Carlton United Disabled Sports Star Award. In 1995, Adelaide Thunder won the league championship for the third year in a row,

National team

Gould made the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team in 1983, and played in the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics, where the Australian team finished eleventh, its best ever performance.

Gould was co-captain of the national team, now known as the Rollers, at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Sydney in 1998, where it finished fourth, and in the six-nation Roosevelt Cup tournament in the United States, where the Rollers finished sixth. and subsequently carried the torch for the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal for his "many years service to the Paralympic movement as an basketball athlete".

Coach Gould returned to coaching, and became coach of the North Adelaide District Basketball Club Under 10 girls team in 2006, and then the Under 18 boys in 2008. He then became coach of Adelaide Thunder in 2009. The following year he made a return to the Paralympics as an assistant coach of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, at the 2012 London Paralympics, where they won silver, and acted as their head coach at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February 2013. In addition to being assistant coach of the Gliders, he was currently the assistant coach of the Under 23 Australian men's wheelchair basketball team, and coached the Women's Under 25 team at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing. In August 2016, he succeeded Tom Kyle as the Gliders' coach.