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Carrie Moore

Carrie Moore

  • Title
    The Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach For Harvard Women’s Basketball, The Ragatz Family Harvard Coach of Excellence
  • Phone
    (617) 495-2214
  • Email
    carriemoore@fas.harvard.edu
  • Previous College
    Western Michigan 2007
  • Experience
    Third Season
  • Personal Pronouns
    she/her/hers

Carrie Moore at a Glance

• Carrie Moore was named The Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach For Harvard Women’s Basketball, Erin McDermott, The John D. Nichols '53 Family Director of Athletics, announced on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Moore, the fourth head coach in program history, arrived in Cambridge from Michigan where she helped the Wolverines to the Elite 8 round of the 2022 NCAA tournament.
• In her debut season with the Crimson, Moore led Harvard to 20 wins, a new program record wins for a first-year head coach. Six of these wins were against programs with top-100 NET Rankings, also a program record for a first-year head coach. She led the team to their highest NET ranking in Harvard history, since the NET rankings went into effect in Summer 2018.
• Moore earned her first Ivy League win as the Crimson defeated Princeton 67-59 in their conference opener and snapped her former team's 42-game Ivy League win streak. 
• Following the Crimson's victory over Princeton, Moore was named the ESPN Coach of the Week for the week of January 2, 2023. 
• Moore's first team was able to score Harvard's first ever Ivy Madness tournament win, beating Columbia 72-65 (OT) and advancing to the Ivy League tournament final for the first time in Harvard history. This win was the first upset based on seeds in Ivy Tournament history.
• As the first ever first-year head coach to lead the team to postseason play in year one, she led the Crimson to their most ever postseason wins with three in the WNIT, defeating Towson, UMass and URI. After advancing to the WNIT Great 8, the team had played 32 games: the most in Harvard women's basketball history in one season. 
• In her second year at the helm, Moore collected 16 victories and led the Crimson to its sixth straight Ivy Madness appearance.
• In her third year as the leader of Harvard women’s basketball Moore led the Crimson to historic new heights.
• The Crimson won a program-best 24 games, won its first Ivy League Tournament Championship, and returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 18 years. 
• Apart of its 24 wins in 2024-25, the Crimson defeated three power conference opponents including its second win in 20 years over a ranked opponent with its 72-68 overtime victory over No. 25 Indiana. 
• On January 20, Moore’s first ever win inside the Palestra also marked win No. 50 as the head coach.  With the 73-44 win over the Quakers Moore became the fastest head coach to 50 wins in program history.
• After battling for a title each of Moore’s first two seasons the Crimson were crowned champions at the 2025 Ivy League Tournament.  In the semifinal game against Princeton Harvard erased a 13-point deficit to defeat the Tigers 70-67.  The following day Harvard battled to a 74-71 victory over the top-seed Columbia Lions to win the title.With the conference crown, the Crimson punched its ticket to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007.  Making even more history, Harvard received its lowest seed in program history, entering March Madness as a 10-seed.  The Crimson historic season ultimately came to a close in the opening round of the tournament, falling to the seven-seed Michigan State Spartans. 
• Moore established a defensive identity in 2024-25, coaching the Crimson to become one of the best defensive teams in the nation.  Through many weeks in the season Harvard was the top scoring defense in the country and ultimately finished the season as the fifth best by holding opponents in 52.9 points per game. 
• Individually, Moore was named the 2025 World Exposure Report Mid-Major Coach of the Year and a semifinalist for the 2025 Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year. 
• Moore's 36 total wins throughout her first two seasons marks the most in program history through any coaches' opening two years. 

Features (Click on headline for link)

• Carrie Moore Named the Friends of Harvard Women's Basketball Head Coach (April 6, 2022)
• Harvard Athletics Welcomes Carrie Moore, New Basketball Coach (April 6, 2022)
• Moore to be Inducted in WMU Hall of Fame  (August 26, 2022)
• New Head Coach for Women's Basketball on Leading with Values (November 4, 2022)
• Carrie Moore Earns ESPN Coach of the Week Distinction after Win over Princeton (January 2, 2023)
• "We're Better Than That!" (January 12, 2023)
• Carrie Moore Looks to Guide Harvard Women's Basketball to New Destinations (March 10, 2023)
• Life's A Jump Ball (April 6, 2023)
• 2022-23 Season Recap (April 12, 2023)
• Making History and Ready for Moore: Carrie Moore, Coach of the Year (May 25, 2023)
• Sports as a Classroom: Leadership & Diversity on and off the Basketball Court (April 1, 2024)
• 2023-24 Season Recap (April 17, 2024)
• Women's Basketball Drops No. 25 Indiana, 72-68, in Overtime Thriller (November 8, 2024)
• Moore Named as 2025 Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year Finalist (March 6, 2025)
• Women's Basketball Wins First Ivy League Tournament Championship in Program History, Defeating Columbia, 74-71 (March 15, 2025)
• Carrie Moore Extended Through 2030 as Head Coach for Harvard Women's Basketball (April 4, 2025)
• 2024-25 Season Recap (April 15, 2025)

Before Harvard

In her one season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator in Ann Arbor, Moore guided Michigan to a 25-7 record (13-4 Big Ten) and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. The Wolverines entered the postseason ranked 12th in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll, marking the program's highest regular-season-ending ranking in school history.
 
At the individual level, Moore helped Naz Hillmon become Michigan's first player to garner AP All-America First-Team honors, while coaching five All-Big Ten selections in 2021-22.
 
Prior to returning to her home state of Michigan, Moore spent two seasons at North Carolina, serving as the program's assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. During her time in Chapel Hill, she guided the Tar Heels to the 2021 NCAA tournament and signed a pair of highly regarded recruiting classes. Her 2019 class was considered the 10th-best nationally, while the 2020 group was ranked third as it featured three McDonald's All-Americans.
 
Along her path to Harvard included two different stints at Ivy League member Princeton. Before heading to UNC, Moore was an assistant coach for the Tigers, coaching Princeton to back-to-back Ivy regular-season and tournament titles (2017-18, 2018-19) en route to a pair of NCAA appearances, and a berth in the 2017 WNIT. She also served as the Tigers' director of operations for two seasons (2008-09, 2009-10), with the 2009-10 team capturing the Ivy championship and reaching the NCAA tournament.
 
In between her stints at Princeton was a five-year run at Creighton. As an assistant from 2010-15, Moore helped the Bluejays reach the postseason each year, including consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament in 2012 and 2013, a feat that had never been accomplished in program history.
 
Before embarking on a successful coaching career, Moore was a standout player at Western Michigan, where she scored a school-record 2,216 points. As a senior in 2006-07, she was named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year after leading the nation in scoring at 25.4 points per game, marking the first time a MAC player won the Division I scoring title. In addition to her efforts on the court, which included her setting nine school records and four league records, Moore was a star in the classroom, collecting Academic All-America Second-Team accolades and landing on the nominee list for the Senior CLASS Award. She graduated magna cum laude from WMU in 2007, with a degree in journalism.
 
Once her time as a Division I player was up, Moore signed WNBA free agent contracts with the Phoenix Mercury and Chicago Sky, and then played professionally for one season in Poland.
 
Year School Role Conference National
2025 Harvard Head Coach Ivy Champs (2-0) NCAA First Round (0-1)
2024 Harvard Head Coach Ivy Semifinals (0-1) N/A
2023 Harvard Head Coach Ivy Final (1-1) WNIT Great 8 (3-1)
2022 Michigan Assistant Coach Big Ten Quarters (0-1) NCAA Elite 8 (3-1)
2021 North Carolina Assistant Coach ACC 2nd Round (0-1) NCAA First Round (0-1)
2020 North Carolina Assistant Coach ACC 1st Round (0-1) N/A
2019 Princeton Assistant Coach Ivy Champs (2-0) NCAA First Round (0-1)
2018 Princeton Assistant Coach Ivy Champs (2-0) NCAA First Round (0-1)
2017 Princeton Assistant Coach Ivy Final (1-1) WNIT First Round (0-1)
2016 Princeton Assistant Coach N/A NCAA First Round (0-1)
2015 Creighton Assistant Coach Big East Quarters (0-1) WNIT First Round (0-1)
2014 Creighton Assistant Coach Big East Semis (1-1) WNIT Second Round (1-1)
2013 Creighton Assistant Coach MVC Semis (1-1) NCAA Second Round (1-1)
2012 Creighton Assistant Coach MVC Champs (3-0) NCAA First Round(0-1)
2011 Creighton Assistant Coach MVC Quarters (0-1) WNIT First Round (0-1)
2010 Princeton Operations Director N/A NCAA First Round (0-1)
2009 Princeton Operations Director N/A N/A