Billie Jean Moore was an American college basketball coach.
21 Facts About Billie Moore
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Billie Moore was the first head coach in women's college basketball history to lead two different schools to national championships.
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Billie Moore led the UCLA Bruins from 1977 to 1993 and won the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national title in 1978.
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Billie Moore was the head coach of the first United States women's national basketball team to compete in the Olympics.
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Billie Moore was born in Humansville, Missouri, on May 5,1943.
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Billie Moore's father was a principal at Westmoreland High School and coached both boys and girls basketball in the city; the school did not sponsor any sports.
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The family moved to Topeka, where Billie Moore attended Highland Park High, which did not offer sports for girls.
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Billie Moore played for their Amateur Athletic Union basketball team.
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Billie Moore started her coaching experience as an assistant at Southern Illinois University, where she pursued her master's degree.
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Albrecht left the school and recommended Billie Moore, who was hired as their women's basketball coach and athletic director.
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Billie Moore, who had been the assistant coach of the US Pan American team which won the gold medal in Mexico in 1975, was selected to be the first Olympic head coach of the US women's team.
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Billie Moore coached the team to a silver medal in the Montreal Olympics, leading a group of college players against a Soviet Union squad with players in their mid-20s and 30s.
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In two of the next three seasons, Billie Moore led the Bruins to high national rankings.
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Billie Moore's teams reached the Final Four in 1970,1972,1975,1978, and 1979.
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Billie Moore was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 and in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in the same year.
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Billie Moore received the Naismith's Women's Outstanding Contribution Award in 2002.
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Billie Moore was named the assistant coach of the United States at the World University Games held in Moscow in August 1973.
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Billie Moore was named to the coaching staff on Team USA as an assistant coach in 1975.
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In 1975, the team was determined to win the gold, and Billie Moore was named assistant coach.
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Billie Moore died on December 14,2022, at home in Fullerton, California, at the age of 79.
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Billie Moore had been in hospice care with multiple myeloma.