RICHMOND, Ky. – Long-time Eastern Kentucky University assistant track and field and cross country coach Tim Moore has retired after 30 years at the school.

Moore joined the EKU coaching staff in 1982 and was an integral part of 42 men's and women's Ohio Valley Conference cross country titles, eight men's and women's OVC indoor track and field titles and nine women's OVC outdoor track and field titles.

In January of 2009, Moore's hard work and dedication to EKU was legitimized when he was inducted into the Kentucky Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame. At the time of his induction, Moore and EKU head coach Rick Erdmann were the only current head and assistant coach tandem in the Hall of Fame.

"I appreciate all the time, effort and contributions Tim made to our program over the years," Erdmann said. "He was a big factor in the great success we have had over the last three decades."

Moore's duties at EKU were numerous. He coached the hurdlers, sprinters and field event athletes for both the men's and women's track and field teams. He also coordinated all aspects of recruiting for the track and field and cross country programs.

Moore's specialty was instructing hurdlers. The native of Berea, Ky. coached 41 OVC-champion hurdlers during his tenure at EKU, including Lutisha Bowen in 2011, who won the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.61 at the OVC Indoor Track and Field Championships and then won the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.03 at the OVC Outdoor Championships.

Moore also coached six-time All-American Jackie Humphrey, who ran the sixth-fastest time ever by an American in the 100-meter hurdles (12.83) and won the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in record-setting fashion during the 1988 season. Moore coached Humphrey in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Moore was selected to coach the South Women's team at the 1991 United States Olympic Festival held in Los Angeles, Calif. He was also appointed as Junior Coordinator of the USA Track and Field Hurdle Development Committee and selected as women's track and field coordinator by the Kentucky Association of USA Track and Field during his storied career.

A 1977 graduate of Berea College, Moore competed in the high jump at Berea and spent one season on the basketball team under head coach Roland Weirwillie. Upon graduating with an undergraduate degree in physical education, Moore began his coaching career on the high school level at Lexington Sayre High School, where he served as the head basketball and track and field and cross country coach.

After three years at Sayre, during which time he earned his master's degree in physical education from EKU in 1979, Moore moved into the college ranks by accepting the men's track and field head coaching position at Berea in 1980.

Moore has written several articles on motivation and track and field techniques. He also participated in several elite hurdle coaches' summits and a women's development summit at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Moore and his wife Sandra reside in Richmond and have one son, Steven. Sandra serves as the Associate Provost for University Diversity at EKU.