Kate Moore completed her third season with the Cougars and first as the program’s Associate Head Coach and Recruiting Coordinator.
This past season, Moore’s recruiting efforts helped WSU reach new heights as freshmen Dori Hathazi and Emily Lundgren became the first freshmen to earn a trip to the NCAA Swimming championships in program history. Lundgren was a medalist in the 200 breast after finishing third at the Pac-12 Conference Championships while twelve Cougars qualified for the postseason 2023 CSCAA National Invitational Championships where the 400 free relay team won the NIC championship. Following the season, Noelle Harvey and Lundgren were both selected to swim for Team USA at the World University Games along with Hathazi was earned a spot on Team Hungary. Moore helped the 2022-23 team record six school records, 28 Top-10 times and six Gibb Pool records while WSU continued to impress in the classroom as nine Cougars were named to the Pac-12 Conference Winer Academic Honor Roll and as a team, WSU received CSCAA Team Scholar All-America honors for the fourteenth straight semester.
Moore helped WSU post a record-setting 2021-22 campaign in her second season, both in the pool and the classroom. In the pool, the Cougars saw Chloe Larson earn a trip the NCAA Championships for the second straight season, Taylor McCoy won the 200 Back at the CSCAA National Invitational Championships, five school records fell and 19 WSU Top-10 times were set while claiming four dual-meet wins including the first victory over Arizona in program history. In the classroom, a program-record five Cougars earned CSCAA Scholar All-America honors, eleven were named to the Pac-12 Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll and the team combined for a 3.58 GPA in the spring semester, the best team GPA in Washington State Athletics.
In her first season at Washington State, Moore helped the Cougars post records both in the pool and in the classroom. In 2020-21, WSU recorded their highest team score in program history at the Pac-12 Conference Championships highlighted by Chloe Larson’s individual championship in the 50 freestyle, WSU’s first individual conference champion. The Cougars recorded a pair of school records, one Gibb Pool record, nine WSU Top-10 Times and three swimmers qualified for the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trails. Larson also earned a trip to the NCAA Championships in the 50 Free and 100 Free, becoming the second Cougar to earn a trip to the NCAA’s in the last three seasons.
In the classroom, WSU earned a pair of CSCAA Scholar All-America Honors after posting a 3.61 team GPA in the fall of 2020 and a record-setting 3.72 team GPA in the spring semester, the highest team GPA in Washington State Athletics history. The Cougars also saw Larson (1st Team) and Taylor McCoy (HM) earn CSCAA Scholar All-America honors and eight individuals named to the Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll.
Moore joined Washington State after spending the previous 10 seasons as a member of the East Carolina University Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving coach staff following a decorated four-year career as a student-athlete at ECU. Moore worked her final three seasons as ECU’s associate head coach, the previous two seasons as the head assistant coach and prior five seasons as an assistant coach.
During Moore's time on the staff, the Pirates won four American Athletic Conference titles, sent nine athletes to the NCAA Championships and helped ECU claim 41 individual conference titles and 21 relay championships.
A native of Pottstown, Pa., Moore was a four-time all-conference performer, championship finalist and U.S. Open qualifier. As a junior in 2006, Moore achieved personal best times in the 200 and 400 IM, which were both ranked among the Top-10 times in school history. The following year Moore posted the second-fastest time at ECU in the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard butterfly.
Moore’s passion for the sport was on display even as a freshman and her diligence in the pool was rewarded as she voted the team's Most Improved Swimmer during the 2003-04 season. The following season she was the recipient of the ECU Coaches Award. At the conclusion of the 2006-07 season, she received the team's Most Outstanding Swimmer award.
Moore received her bachelor's degree in physical education in 2007 and earned her master's degree in health education in 2009.
