Tamara Moore

{{Short description|American basketball player and coach (born 1980)}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Tamara Moore

| image =

| caption =

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| team = Dallas Mavericks

| position = Scout

| league = NBA

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 10

| weight_lb =

| nationality = American

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|4|11}}

| birth_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota

| high_school =North (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

| college = Wisconsin (1998–2002)

| career_position = Guard

| draft_league = WNBA

| draft_year = 2002

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 15

| draft_team = Miami Sol

| career_start = 2002

| career_end = 2007

| years1 = 2002

| team1 = Miami Sol

| years2 = 2002

| team2 = Minnesota Lynx

| years3 = 2003

| team3 = Detroit Shock

| years4 = 2003–2004

| team4 = Phoenix Mercury

| years5 = 2005

| team5 = New York Liberty

| years6 = 2006

| team6 = Los Angeles Sparks

| years7 = 2007

| team7 = Houston Comets

| years8 = ?–?

| team8 = Hapoel Haifa/ Motzkin

| years9 = ?–?

| team9 = Maccabi Ramat Hen

| years10 = ?–?

| team10 = Saint-Amand Hainaut

| years11 = ?–?

| team11 = Maccabi Bnot Ashdod

| years12 = ?–?

| team12 = Elitzur Ramla

| cyears1 = 2020–2024

| cteam1 = Mesabi Range College

| cyears2 = 2022

| cteam2 = Boston Celtics (summer league assistant)

| highlights =

Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year (2001)
2x First-team All-Big Ten (2001, 2002)

| wnba_profile = tamara_moore

| medaltemplates =

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Tamara Tenell Moore (born April 11, 1980, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the current men's basketball head coach at Mesabi Range College in Virginia, Minnesota and an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics 2022 Summer League team. Moore was a professional basketball player who competed in the WNBA and Europe, and is the only female head coach of a collegiate men's basketball team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/29026854/ex-wnba-player-tamara-moore-coach-men-hoops-team-mesabi-range-college|title=Ex-WNBA player to coach men's juco hoops team|date=2020-04-12|website=ESPN.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-13}}

Prep career

Moore played for Minneapolis North High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she was named a 1998 WBCA All-American. She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored thirteen points. Graduating from Minneapolis North in 1998, Moore guided the Lady Polars to a state championship and was named Minnesota Miss Basketball.{{cite news|last=Rayno|first=Amelia|title=Fading history|url=http://www.startribune.com/sports/116193729.html?cache=n&uccb=1297791582|newspaper=Star Tribune|date=15 February 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015122427/http://www.startribune.com/sports/116193729.html?cache=n&uccb=1297791582|archivedate=15 October 2012}}{{Cite web|url = http://spokesman-recorder.com/north-high-historical-b-ball-powerhouse/|title = North High a historical b-ball powerhouse|date = 2 March 2011|accessdate = |website = MSR Online|publisher = |last = |first = }}

College career

Moore attended college at University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated in 2002. She was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year in 2001. Moore ended her Badgers career playing every game over four years, including two WNIT and two NCAA Tournaments. She finished as the school all-time leader in steals and assists.{{Cite web|url = http://www.uwbadgers.com/pdfs/2162.pdf|title = 2001-02 Women's Basketball|date = 17 April 2002|website = UWBadgers.com|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120503061107/http://www.uwbadgers.com/pdfs/2162.pdf|archivedate = 3 May 2012}} Following her collegiate career, she was selected 15th overall in the 2002 WNBA draft by the Miami Sol. She was inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 2017

Coaching career

Moore has coached high school girls basketball in Minneapolis. Moore became the second female head coach of a men's team after Kerri-Ann McTiernan coached Kingsborough Community College in the 1990s. She became the 1st African-American female to accomplish the title.{{cite news |last1=Cobb |first1=David |title=Former WNBA player Tamara Moore hired as men's college basketball head coach. |url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/former-wnba-player-tamara-moore-hired-as-mens-college-basketball-head-coach/ |accessdate=April 14, 2020 |work=CBS Sports |date=April 12, 2020}}

In 2014-2015 she was involved with the short-lived Minnesota Flame semi-pro club. In April 2020, she was hired as the men's basketball and softball coach at Mesabi Range College.

On July 1, 2022, Moore announced via Twitter that she would be an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics 2022 Summer League season.{{cite news |last1=Hass |first1=Trevor |title=Tamara Moore, first Black woman to coach men’s college team, joins Celtics Summer League staff |url=https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2022/07/03/tamara-moore-celtics-summer-league-staff-trailblazer-assistant-coach/?amp=1 |accessdate=July 6, 2022 |work=Boston.com |date=July 1, 2022}}

WNBA career statistics

=Regular season=

| align="left" | 2002

| align="left" | Miami

| 5 || 3 || 16.6 || .320 || .222 || 1.000 || 1.4 || 2.0 || 1.4 || 0.0 || 2.2 || 5.6

| align="left" | 2002

| align="left" | Minnesota

| 26 || 20 || 25.1 || .366 || .382 || .830 || 2.9 || 3.0 || 0.9 || 0.3 || 2.8 || 7.5

| align="left" | 2003

| align="left" | Detroit

| 15 || 0 || 4.4 || .500 || .000 || .833 || 0.6 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 0.4 || 1.4

| align="left" | 2003

| align="left" | Phoenix

| 11 || 0 || 10.0 || .423 || .000 || .846 || 1.7 || 0.7 || 0.5 || 0.4 || 0.9 || 3.0

| align="left" | 2004

| align="left" | Phoenix

| 32 || 0 || 12.1 || .443 || .300 || .862 || 0.9 || 1.7 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 1.1 || 2.6

| align="left" | 2005

| align="left" | New York

| 7 || 0 || 6.9 || .667 || .333 || 1.000 || 1.0 || 0.9 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.6 || 1.6

| align="left" | 2006

| align="left" | Los Angeles

| 34 || 33 || 18.7 || .469 || .347 || .803 || 2.1 || 1.9 || 1.0 || 0.2 || 1.1 || 6.1

| align="left" | 2007

| align="left" | Houston

| 15 || 9 || 19.3 || .368 || .267 || 1.000 || 1.7 || 2.9 || 1.1 || 0.1 || 2.1 || 3.9

| align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 6 years, 7 teams

| 89 || 89 || 33.4 || .478 || .329 || .826 || 7.0 || 2.9 || 1.6 || 1.1 || 2.2 || 14.6

=Playoffs=

| align="left" | 2006

| align="left" | Los Angeles

| 4 || 4 || 21.8 || .526 || .667 || .636 || 3.0 || 2.8 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 2.0 || 7.8

| align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 1 year, 1 team

| 4 || 4 || 21.8 || .526 || .667 || .636 || 3.0 || 2.8 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 2.0 || 7.8

Career statistics

=College=

class="wikitable"; style="text-align:center"

!Year

!Team

!GP

!Points

!FG%

!3P%

!FT%

!RPG

!APG

!SPG

!BPG

!PPG

1998–99

|Wisconsin

|32

|347

|.443

|.339

|.811

|4.9

|3.3

|2.5

|0.3

|10.8

1999–00

|Wisconsin

|33

|445

|.462

|.348

|.770

|5.1

|3.3

|2.5

|0.7

|13.5

2000–01

|Wisconsin

|28

|354

|.450

|.339

|.730

|4.6

|5.4

|3.6

|0.7

|12.6

2001–02

|Wisconsin

|31

|516

|.492

|.363

|.833

|5.1

|6.1

|2.9

|0.8

|16.6

colspan=2; align=center|Career

|124

|1,662

|.464

|.351

|.783

|4.9

|4.5

|2.8

|0.6

|13.4

Source{{Cite web|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careersearch|title=NCAA® Career Statistics|website=web1.ncaa.org|access-date=2016-05-12}}

Notes

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{{cite web|title=WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores|url=http://www.wbca.org/pages/AWARDS_high_school_all-america_game_box_scores|publisher=Women's Basketball Coaches Association|accessdate=29 Jun 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128202803/http://www.wbca.org/pages/AWARDS_high_school_all-america_game_box_scores|archivedate=2016-01-28}}

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