Billie Moore, the history-making women's basketball coach that won national championships with two different schools, died Wednesday from cancer, UCLA announced.
Billie Moore, the history-making women's basketball coach that won national championships with two different schools, died Wednesday from cancer, UCLAThe university reports that she passed away at her Fullerton, California, home surrounded by friends and family following a"lengthy battle with multiple myeloma."
Moore began her coaching career as an assistant at Southern Illinois, according to the Associated Press, and then spent eight seasons as head coach at Cal State Fullerton, where she went 140-15, before moving over to UCLA. She totaled 436 wins as a collegiate head coach, and in 1991 became only the eighth women's Division I head coach to win 400 games, UCLA said.
Moore was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999. She was inducted into UCLA's Hall of Fame in 2000.
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