Billie Moore, who coached the primary U.S. Olympic girls’s basketball crew to a silver medal on the 1976 Montreal Video games, has died on the age of 79.
UCLA, the place Moore was the ladies’s head coach from 1977-93, introduced Thursday that she died from most cancers at residence Wednesday evening in Fullerton, California, surrounded by household and buddies.
Moore was the primary coach in girls’s basketball historical past to guide groups from two completely different colleges to nationwide championships. She guided Cal State Fullerton to the Fee on Intercollegiate Athletics for Girls title in 1970 and UCLA to the Affiliation for Intercollegiate Athletics for Girls (AIAW) title in 1978.
Billie Moore, who coached the primary U.S. Olympic girls’s basketball crew to a silver medal on the Montreal Video games in 1976, has died from most cancers at age 79 on Wednesday. She guided Cal State Fullerton and UCLA to Affiliation for Intercollegiate Athletics for Girls titles within the Nineteen Seventies
Inductees of the 1999 Basketball Corridor of Fame pose collectively following a information convention in Springfield, Massachusetts on October 1, 1999. (L-R): Wayne Embry, Kevin McHale, Billie Moore, John Thompson and Carl Bennett, who’s accepting the award for Fred Zollner
Moore was inducted in each the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame and the Girls’s Basketball Corridor of Fame in 1999.
She started her teaching profession as an assistant at Southern Illinois. Moore then spent eight seasons at Cal State Fullerton, the place she went 140-15.
Moore led UCLA to a 27-3 mark in 1978 and posted a report 296 victories in her 16 years with the Bruins. In her 24-year profession, she completed with a 436-196 report.
At collegiate degree, Moore’s total report is 436–196. She’s additionally received gold on the 1975 Pan American video games in Mexico Metropolis
Moore guided the U.S. girls’s Olympic crew on the Montreal Video games almost a half century in the past. Her crew featured trailblazers of the sport – Pat Summitt, Ann Meyers Drysdale and Nancy Lieberman, who went 3-2 and completed runner as much as the powerhouse Soviet Union crew (5-0).
USA Basketball mentioned in a press release it was ‘proud to have been a part of [Moore’s] journey. Our ideas are together with her family members at this tough time.’
The present U.S. Olympic coach, South Carolina’s Daybreak Staley, mentioned on social media that ladies’s basketball ‘misplaced a legend right now in Billie Moore […] thanks coach for servicing our sport with class, dignity and goal.’
Staley’s crew captured the seventh straight girls’s gold medal on the Tokyo Video games in 2021.
