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Billie Jean Moore - Alumni
A Washburn University graduate, Moore was a former head women’s basketball coach and went on to become the first coach in women's basketball history to lead teams from two different schools to national championships. She coached at California State-Fullerton from 1969 to 1977 where she won the AIAW national title in 1970 in her first year with the team. She went on to take over the program at UCLA team from 1977 to 1993 and claimed the AIAW national title in 1978. Her overall college coaching record is 436-196. She was the head coach for the first-ever United States Olympic women’s basketball team in 1976 and led the Americans to the silver medal. Moore was inducted into the Washburn Athletic Hall of Fame in 1978.
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