Joining the Cerritos College coaching staff for his second 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 College.