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Joining the Cerritos College coaching staff
for his first season is Eric Gould, who is
another coach with a successful competitive
and coaching career. While attending
Springfield (MA) College, Gould was a
two-time NCAA All-American (1996-97), was
his team’s captain and won the New England
Conference championship his senior year.
Gould was also selected as a three-time NCAA
Scholar All-American and was recently
inducted into the New England Conference
Hall of Fame.
He remained at Springfield
College and served as an assistant coach
from 1998-2002 and coached seven NCAA
All-Americans during his tenure. His teams
also finished in the Top 10 of the NCAA
Championships twice and had two other teams
place in the Top 20, while they went on to
win three New England Conference
championships. Individually, Gould had 13 of
his wrestlers win conference championships.
After taking a year off from
coaching, Gould resurfaced at Torrance High
School, where he was a varsity assistant
wrestling coach from 2004-05 and has been a
heath and physical education teacher there
since 2003. Gould earned his Bachelor’s
degree in Heath/Fitness and Master’s degree
in Physical Education from Springfield
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