David Ian Gould, OAM (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.
[5] 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,[6] where they won silver.
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.
[9] He was chosen to represent South Australia in 1982, and scored the winning shot that won his team the Australian championship.
[10] 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,[11] and he received the Carlton United Disabled Sports Star Award.
[12] The Australians finished tenth at the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Melbourne in 1986, which was once again it best ever performance,[2] and then went on to win the gold medal at the Stoke Mandeville Games that year.
[2][15] In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal for his "many years service to the Paralympic movement as an basketball athlete".
[10] When the National Wheelchair basketball Development was established in 2010, one of its four teams was named the David Gould Whites after him.