David Goulet

Position:
Player
Height:
6-4
Weight:
195
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Longueuil, Quebec
High School:
Sport-Etude de Mortagne School/Tulane

Career: Tallied a career singles record of 81-50, including a 14-8 record in the ACC and 17-8 Conference USA ledger ... posted a career doubles record of 85-40 with a 13-9 ACC mark and 23-4 record in Conference USA ... earned ITA All-America honors for doubles as a junior ... All-ACC selection in his senior season and two-time All-Conference USA pick ... Conference USA Freshman of the Year in 2004 ... competed in the NCAA Singles Championships in 2008 and was selected to the NCAA Doubles Championships in 2004 and 2007 ... while at Tulane he led the Wave to two Conference USA championships ... helped Duke to two straight NCAA second round appearances and a 27-24 record in two seasons ... All-ACC Academic team choice ... 2005 Conference USA Sportsmanship Award recipient ... two-time ITA Scholar Athlete and ACC Honor Roll selection ... ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District second team as a senior.

2007-08 (Senior): Selected to the All-ACC team ... competed in his first NCAA Singles Championships and was defeated by the No. 6 seed Robert Farah of Southern California 6-2, 7-6 (4) in the first round ... ended the year ranked No. 55 in singles and No. 33 in doubles with his partner Christopher Price ... ranked as high as No. 33 in singles on Feb. 20 and No. 31 in doubles on April 22 ... recorded a overall record of 18-12 in singles and 17-17 in doubles ... in singles he was 14-10 in dual match play with a 7-4 record against ACC competition ... he started the season with a 6-1 mark at the No. 2 spot in the lineup before moving up to the top spot for the final 17 matches in which we went 8-9 in singles ... earned a team-high six victories over ranked opponents ... posted back-to-back victories over players ranked in the top-20 with a 6-2, 6-3 win against No. 15 Ryan Rowe of Illinois on Feb. 1 and a 7-6, 6-4 win against No. 11 Brett Helgeson of Notre Dame on Feb. 3 ... registered two victories over ranked ACC opponents with a 7-5, 6-3 win against No. 59 Cory Parr of Wake Forest on March 26 and a 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 win against No. 68 Amit Inbar on March 30 ... defeated No. 115 Benjamin Carlotti of North Carolina 6-2, 6-2 in the second round of the NCAA Team Championships ... won eight of his first nine singles contests of the season ... teamed with Price in doubles for a 17-16 overall record, including a 12-13 mark in dual matches and 6-5 ledger in ACC play ... the duo played the entire season at the No. 1 spot in the order ... tallied four wins over ranked doubles teams with three of those in ACC dual matches ... biggest win of the year came against the top-ranked team in the nation as they defeated No. 1 Somdev Devvarman and Treat Huey of Virginia, 9-7, on April 6 ... downed No. 24 Daniel Vallverdu and Carl Sundberg of Miami, 9-8, on March 21 ... closed out the regular season with a 9-8 win against No. 43 Scott Blackmon and Ryan Smith of Georgia Tech on April 13 ... also claimed a victory over No. 37 George Carpeni and Alex Krueger-Wyman of Princeton, 8-4, on Jan. 29 ... recorded match-clinching victories in Duke’s first two wins of the year against Elon and Princeton ... clinched doubles points against Clemson and Georgia Tech ... tallied the first singles point in a match four times and the first doubles point six times ... saw limited action in the fall with a 2-0 singles record and 4-2 mark in doubles ... won both of his singles matches at the Wilson ITA Mideast Regional Championships in Charlottesville, Va. ... claimed two of his four doubles wins in the fall at the Southern Intercollegiate Championships in Athens, Ga. ... ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District III second team choice.

2006-07 (Junior): Earned ITA All-America honors in doubles with Joey Atas ... the duo finished the year ranked No. 9 in the final ITA national doubles rankings and were ranked as high as No. 4 on Jan. 9 ... as a pair Goulet and Atas earned a top eight seed for the NCAA Doubles Championships but could not compete due to an injury suffered by Goulet in the NCAA team second round ... posted a 24-12 overall record in doubles with a 23-11 mark when playing with Atas ... tallied 10 victories over ranked opponents in doubles, including six over top-25 teams ... claimed an 8-6 win over No. 6 Harel Srugo and Henrique Cancado of Old Dominion ... defeated the 11th ranked N.C. State duo of Nick Cavaday and William Noblitt, 8-4 ... earned wins in nine consecutive doubles outings from Feb. 18 - March 30 ... clinched five doubles points and Duke’s ACC wins over Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech ... finished with a 7-4 record in ACC competition ... won his first five singles matches of the spring and nine of his first 10 decisions ... earned victories in nine of his final 12 singles contests ... faced three ranked opponents in the spring with all three matches going three sets ... had a stretch of six wins in seven ACC contests heading into the final weekend of conference play ... tallied the first singles point for the Blue Devils in six contests ... suffered an injury in the third set of the NCAA second round match against Alabama to fall to 23-12 in his first season at Duke ... went 4-4 in fall singles action with a straight set victory over No. 92 Ashwin Kumar of Harvard ... won two matches at the Southern Intercollegiate Championships before falling in three sets in his third match ... combined with Atas to go 7-2 in doubles play during the fall ... the two defeated three consecutive ranked opponents at the Southern Intercollegiate Championships to reach the championship match, where they would fall to the ninth-ranked doubles team in the nation, 8-2 ... reached the quarterfinals of the ITA Regional in doubles with Atas ... named to the All-ACC Academic team ... ITA Scholar Athlete.

2005-06 (Redshirted): Transferred to Duke due to discontinuation of the men’s tennis program at Tulane.

2004-05 (Sophomore): First Team All-Conference USA selection ... C-USA Sportsmanship Award winner ... tied for second on the Green Wave in singles victories with a 17-8 mark ... saw the bulk of his action at No. 2 but also went 4-1 at No. 1 ... had two singles wins and two doubles wins at the C-USA Championship as he helped the Wave to its third straight title ... also went 15-5 in doubles play ... recorded nine dual-match singles wins against ranked teams and 10 wins against ranked teams in dual-match doubles ... also a Second Team All-Louisiana selection ... posted an 8-4 fall singles record, including knocking off a pair of ranked opponents to advance to the finals of the Beau Holton Memorial Invitational at Tulane ... registered a 3-2 mark against ranked opponents during the fall season ... went 8-3 in fall doubles matches.

2003-04 (Freshman): Named Conference USA Freshman of the Year ... third team all-conference selection ... posted a 12-8 mark in singles, including 9-4 at No. 4 ... his singles victory at No. 4 clinched the C-USA title for the Green Wave ... also named First Team All-Louisiana ... tallied a team-best 21-2 record in doubles, including 17-2 with partner Michael Kogan ... that duo closed the season with the No. 19 ranking in the nation after playing in the NCAA Doubles Championship ... recorded a singles 4-6 record in the fall, including a pair of wins at Tulane’s Beau Holton Memorial Invitational.

Prep: A dominant junior player in Canada ... won the Canadian Championship in 18-and-under doubles and advanced to the singles finals in the same age group ... voted the top junior player for 2002 by the Quebec Tennis Federation ... also participated in numerous international tournaments ... won the Canadian Under-18 Doubles Championship in the summer of 2004.

Personal: Born David Jean Goulet on April 2, 1986, in Greenfield Park, Quebec ... son of Serge Goulet and Andree Dionne ... has one sister, Cynthya and one brother, Steven ... sister, Cynthya, played tennis at the University of Illinois and graduated in 2006 ... graduate of the Sport-Etudes De Mortagne School ... speaks French, English and Spanish ... majoring in economics ... also enjoys wakeboarding and golf.

CAREER STATISTICS
Year Singles ACC/C-USA Doubles ACC/C-USA
2003-04* 15-14 9-3 21-2 12-1
2004-05* 25-12 8-5 23-9 11-3
2005-06 Transferred from Tulane
2006-07 23-12 7-4 24-12 7-4
2007-08 18-12 7-4 17-17 6-5
Totals 81-50 14-8/17-8 85-40 13-9/23-4
* Freshman and Sophomore seasons spent at Tulane University