Billie Moore, a Basketball Hall of Famer, was the first coach in women’s basketball history to lead teams from two different schools to national championships, guiding Cal State Fullerton and UCLA …
LOS ANGELES — Billie Moore, who coached the first U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team to a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Games, has died. She was 79.
UCLA, where Moore was the women’s head coach from 1977-93, announced Thursday that she died from cancer at home Wednesday night in Fullerton, surrounded by family and friends. Moore was inducted in both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
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