Before his time as head coach of the women’s soccer team, Tim Gould first came to Blackburn College to play soccer and earn a bachelor’s degree in secondary education in English. As a member of the Blackburn men’s soccer team, Gould was a four-year starter on a team that finished in the top four three times during his career.
After graduation Gould was hired as the head coach of the Carlinville High School girl’s soccer team. He finished his coaching stint there with a record of 103-50-5 and was named the 2010 Alton Telegraph small school girl’s coach of the year. While at Carlinville High School, he was also hired as the head coach of the boy’s team. In six seasons he compiled a record of 100-47-6 and collected the boy’s soccer team’s only sectional championship.
He was then hired as the head coach of the Blackburn women’s soccer team in 2013. With Gould at the helm the Beavers finished their seasons with records of 6-11-1 in 2013, 8-10-1 in 2014, 7-11 in 2015 and 5-13-1 in 2016.
Despite rebuilding and reorganizing the Blackburn team, Gould earlier this month called a meeting with the women. According to freshman Allison Lutz, the team walked into the meeting confused, with no idea of the purpose. All were silent before players were told the news: Gould was resigning, effective Nov. 11. “When he said he was leaving, a lot of girls started crying. Right now the team, the seniors and the juniors, feel like it’s their duty to start recruiting people because we are going to have a spring season as well and they want to keep building this team,” Lutz stated.
The opportunity to join the [MUW] athletics department where I’m starting the men’s soccer program.
Gould is now head coach of the new men’s soccer program at Mississippi University for Women. Despite the name, it is a co-ed public university in Columbus, MS. After spending 15 years in Carlinville, Gould said he is looking forward to both the challenge of a new environment and the chance to build a new program.