Tim Moore is entering his 30th season as the assistant track and field and cross country coach at Eastern Kentucky University, and he has been an integral part of the program’s success ever since arriving.
“Coach Erdmann and I have been together for many years and I think we have helped improve EKU’s recognition across the country in track and field and cross country,” Moore said. “Our main focus is graduating our student-athletes and providing them with the best competition we can to make them the best they can be. The support we get from our strong alumni base plays a major role in what we are able to accomplish.”
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. Moore was bestowed with the honor at the association’s fourth Annual Awards and Hall of Fame Banquet held in the Hall of Fame Room at the KHSAA Offices on Executive Drive in Lexington. Four other coaches – Roland Dale (Shelby County), Craig Hopkins (Apollo), Edward Newton (Male, Ballard, Shawnee and Central) and Mike Johnson (Berea College) – were also inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Moore’s duties at EKU are numerous. He works with the hurdlers, sprinters and field event athletes for both the men’s and women’s track and field teams. He also coordinates all aspects of recruiting for the track and field and cross country programs.
The Berea, Ky. native has coached four OVC champion hurdlers over the last three seasons. In 2011, it was junior Lutisha Bowen who won the 60-meter hurdles (8.61) at the OVC Indoor Track and Field Championships and the 100-meter hurdles (14.03) at the OVC outdoor championships. In 2010, he guided freshman DanHeisha Harding to a win in the women’s 55-meter hurdles at the OVC Indoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 7.98. In 2009, Iceca Epps won the women’s 60-meter hurdles at the OVC Indoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 8.61, edging Eastern Illinois’ Chandra Golden by three-tenths of a second, while Andre Evans won the men’s 110-meter hurdles at the OVC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in a time of 14.76.
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 has been appointed as Junior Coordinator of the USA Track and Field Hurdle Development Committee and has also been selected as women’s track and field coordinator by the Kentucky Association of USA Track and Field.
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/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 has 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 keeps busy by serving on hurdle development committees and contributing to clinics across the country.
He and his wife Sandra reside in Richmond and have one son, Steven. Sandra is also employed by EKU and serves as the Special Assistant to the Provost for University Diversity. She is finishing her Ph.D. in administration in higher education.
