LEXINGTON, Ky. - A 1969 Williamson High School graduate has been inducted into the Kentucky Track and Cross County Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Long-time Eastern Kentucky University assistant track and field and cross country coach Tim Moore was inducted into the Kentucky Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Saturday. Moore has coached at EKU for 27 years.

Moore was bestowed with the honor at the association’s 4th 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 programs. He also coordinates all aspects of recruiting for the track and cross country teams.

In addition to being a WHS graduate, Moore is 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 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. He has also been selected as women’s track and field coordinator by the Kentucky Association of USA Track and Field.

Moore coached former EKU All-American Jackie Humphrey in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

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.

EKU head track and field and cross country coach Rick Erdmann, who was inducted into the association’s Hall of Fame in 2007, was named the 2008 University Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year at the banquet. Erdmann and Moore are the only current head and assistant coach tandem in the Hall of Fame.

“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 & 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.”

He and his wife Sandra reside in Richmond and have one son, Steven. Sandra is also a WHS graduate and serves as the EKU Special Assistant to the Provost for University Diversity.