Wes Moore

Frank Weston Moore (born April 22, 1957) is an American college basketball coach who is the current women's basketball head coach at NC State.

He began his coaching career as a men's basketball coach at Johnson Bible in 1984.

At Johnson Bible College (now Johnson University) in Knoxville, Tennessee, Moore played at point guard and graduated in 1984 with a degree in religious studies.

From 1984 to 1987, Moore was a men's basketball assistant coach at Johnson Bible College.

Moore then enrolled at the University of Tennessee, where he earned a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1986 and master's in the same subject in 1987.

A head coach at all three levels of NCAA women's college basketball since 1987, Moore has been named Coach of the Year eight times by three conferences and over 20 regular season or conference tournament championships.

Moore grew up in Dallas and played college basketball at Johnson Bible College.

Then in 1987, Moore became head coach for a struggling women's basketball program at Maryville College and instant turned the program into a winner, with five NCAA Division III Tournament appearances and over 130 wins in six seasons.

The Women's Basketball Coaches Association awarded Moore three regional Coach of the Year honors.

After completing graduate school, Moore became women's basketball head coach at Maryville College in 1987.

Moore inherited a Maryville team that won only a single game the previous season.

He immediately turned around the program to a 15–12 record in his debut season and would have winning records in all of his six seasons as head coach, with five straight appearances in the NCAA Division III Tournament from 1989 to 1993 and three Converse/Women's Basketball Coaches Association District 5 Coach of the Year honors in 1990, 1992, and 1993.

Moore's cumulative record at Maryville was 131–36.

From 1993 to 1995, Moore was a women's basketball assistant coach at NC State under Kay Yow.

From 1993 to 1995, Moore was an assistant coach for NC State women's basketball under Kay Yow.

During those two seasons, NC State went 34–24 and qualified for the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Division I Tournament.

Moore also directed Yow's basketball camp in the summer of 1994.

Then from 1995 to 1998, Moore was head coach at Francis Marion, where he achieved an appearance in the 1998 NCAA Division II Final Four.

In his second head coaching job, Moore was head women's basketball coach at Francis Marion College from 1995 to 1998, during which he went 69–20.

Following a 21–8 season in 1996–97, Moore was the Peach Belt Conference Coach of the Year.

The 1997–98 Francis Marion team finished 30–3, advanced to the Final Four round of the 1998 NCAA Division II Tournament, and was ranked fifth in the final coaches' poll.

In his first NCAA Division I head coaching position, Moore was head coach at Chattanooga from 1998 to 2013, during which he led the Mocs to 12 Southern Conference (SoCon) regular season championships and nine NCAA Division I Tournament appearances.

With over 350 wins at Chattanooga, Moore has the most career wins in program history and won five Coach of the Year honors from the SoCon.

In 1998, Moore took his first NCAA Division I head coaching job at Chattanooga.

After a 10–17 debut season, Moore led Chattanooga to the Southern Conference regular season title and Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) appearance in 1999–2000.

Moore served as head coach at Chattanooga for 15 seasons and ended his tenure there with the most career wins in program history at 358.

Under Moore, Chattanooga won 12 SoCon regular season titles, including 11 straight from 2000 to 2010 and in his final season in 2013.

Moore won six SoCon Coach of the Year honors in 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2013.

Chattanooga also had four WNIT appearances in 2000, 2005, 2009, and 2012.

Chattanooga also won nine SoCon Tournament titles (2001–04, 2006–08, 2010, and 2013) and appeared as an automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament in those years.

In the 2003–04 season, Chattanooga set a school record for wins with a 29–3 record and had a historically best 27-game winning streak that included an NCAA tournament first round win over Rutgers.

On April 26, 2010, Moore accepted a job offer to be head coach at East Carolina.

However, three days later, Moore reversed his decision in order to stay at Chattanooga.

Moore returned to NC State in 2013, this time as head coach.

On April 5, 2013, Moore resigned from Chattanooga to become head coach at NC State, 20 years after he first was an assistant coach there.

In Moore's debut season, NC State finished 25–8 and fourth in the ACC standings with an appearance in the NCAA Division I Tournament.

Then in 2014–15, NC State finished 18–15 and advanced to the third round of the WNIT.

He was the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coach of the Year in women's basketball in 2017 and 2022.

Born in Texas City, Texas, Moore grew up in Dallas.

In his first seven seasons, Moore led NC State to four NCAA Tournament appearances and the 2020, 2021 and 2022 ACC Tournament titles.