Moore Stepping Away from Collegiate Coaching
5/16/2018 12:35:00 PM | Women's Rowing
Known as much for his expertise in the psychological approach to coaching as for his outstanding tactical expertise, Justin Moore's legacy will always be felt within the Syracuse University women's rowing program. In eight seasons as head coach Moore guided the Orange to national prominence.
"It has been an amazing experience to be connected with such a storied program," Moore said. "We have been at Syracuse during a time of unprecedented athletic success, both in our program and in the department as a whole. The culture we have created in our program is magnetic and exciting. We are committed to doing what is necessary to be successful. One of the things we have talked about all season is being comfortable with uncertainty and how you respond to it. The key is how you react to it and facing it with a level of poise and commitment. If you do that, you will be just fine. When you look beyond uncertainty you see excitement for the future."
Today, Moore announced that he is transitioning from the collegiate coaching ranks into private business to impact the sport on a larger scale. He is a co-founder and will be chief coach for Crew by True Rowing, a Cambridge-based company intent on bringing the sport of rowing into peoples' lives.
"I want to impact this sport on all different levels," Moore said. "The percentage of people who row is 0.00004. Our goal is to change that significantly by helping eliminate the two biggest obstacles in our sport – access to the rowing community and time. We want to help people bring the river home so people can experience all of the positive elements of the sport and not have to commit three hours a day doing it. Rowing is a pathway to total health."
"Justin has been a terrific coach in every sense of the word," said Syracuse Director of Athletics John Wildhack. "At the forefront has been his devotion to his student-athletes and their development both athletically and academically. He has been a terrific role model for his coaching staff and has worked tirelessly to support them. Justin leaves with our sincere thanks and best wishes for continued success."
Under Moore's leadership, Syracuse has earned seven top-three conference championship finishes and three trips to the NCAA Championship, including an invitation to this year's Championship scheduled for May 25-27 in Sarasota, Fla. Moore has mentored 22 all-conference selections, 10-all region honorees, five All-Americans. He coached Syracuse's second varsity eight to Atlantic Coast Conference Crew of the Year in 2017, while earning the league's Coach of the Year honor, as well. The Orange has earned a top-20 ranking in each of the past five final US Rowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Polls and is in the top-20 heading into the 2018 NCAA Championship. Since joining the ACC, Syracuse has finished in the top three at the conference championship in all five seasons, including second-place finishes in 2017 and 2018.
"One of my favorite quotes is from Dr. Seuss. 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.' My family and I smile because we were incredibly fortunate and blessed to have been here in this community. It has been an incredibly unique opportunity to work with amazing people. Syracuse is a place where athletic excellence is valued. When you tell people you are associated with Syracuse Athletics, they lean into the conversation. To be associated with the quality of the coaches we have here is inspiring and humbling."
In just his second season at Syracuse, Moore led the Orange varsity four to the BIG EAST Championship, a first for any Syracuse crew since 2005. That same year, 'Cuse earned a No. 20 ranking in the final coaches' poll of the season – its first national ranking in seven years.
This season, the Orange finished as ACC Runner Up for the second-consecutive year. Syracuse began the season ranked 14th and earned a second-place finish at the Doc Hosea Invitational, a regatta that Moore helped to create during his tenure at Syracuse.
"Beyond directly impacting the Syracuse program and our student-athletes, I am extremely proud of the two regattas we co-created in the Doc Hosea Invitational and the Collegiate Small Boat Challenge," Moore said. "The Doc Hosea is a large rowing event that features cross conference competition on a quality racing course to provide impactful experiences for the student-athletes involved. The collegiate small boat regatta introduces the student-athletes to the US Rowing and international rowing competition environment."
A distinguished figure in the rowing community, Moore has presented on rowing and training at numerous clubs, colleges, the US Rowing Convention and the CRCA Coaches Academy.
"Coach Moore and his coaches and athletes have done a remarkable job during his tenure," said Syracuse Alumni Rowing Association (SARA) president Joe Paduda. "He leaves the program in a very good place with multiple invitations to the NCAA Championship, solid recruiting classes, and strength and depth throughout the team. SARA wishes Justin and his family well and thanks him for all he's done for Syracuse Women's Rowing."
Moore has also devoted his time and coaching expertise to the United States Rowing program throughout his career. He was named the Women's Junior National Team coach by US Rowing in 2008 and guided Team USA's 8+ to a gold medal at the World Rowing Junior Championship. The win earned the U.S. a bid to the 2010 Junior World Games in the Czech Republic where it won a pair of medals.
He ran the U.S. Women's Pre-Elite Camp in 2011, his first year at Syracuse, and continued his involvement with US Rowing in the summer of 2012 when he hosted the U23 Women's National Team Training Camp at Syracuse. That same year, he helped the U.S. U23 squad to a gold medal at the U23 World Championships in Trakai, Lithuania.
Prior to coming to Syracuse, Moore invested 11 highly successful seasons in the women's rowing program at Williams College (Mass.). During his tenure, he guided the team to six NCAA Division III NCAA National Championships (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). In 2010, the Ephs became the first NCAA Division III school to win five consecutive NCAA titles. The NCAA only crowned a Division III national champion since 2002, giving Moore six of the possible nine titles during his time there.
He earned CRCA Division III Coach of the Year four times (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010) and was named the National Division III Coach of the Year in 2000. Additionally, he was named the Jimmy Joy Canadian Coaches Women's Coach of the Year in 2000 and won the Joy of Sculling Coaches Conference Award for Collegiate Coaches in 2009.
Moore began his collegiate coaching career as the assistant heavyweight men's coach at Yale from 1996-99. In 1996 he led the freshman boat to the EARC Sprints Championship and, later that summer, a victory in the Temple Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.
Moore and his wife, Lisa, have two children, Quincy and Mackenzie.
"Our family owes a special thanks to all of the people associated with the Golisano Children's Center. As many people know our daughter, Makenzie, was diagnosed with t-cell lymphoma in the second year we were in Syracuse. The doctors, nurses and everyone associated with the Golisano Center were incredible partners in our fight against cancer. We are so fortunate to have moved to a community that is 10 minutes from such an incredible medical center and to have been part of the greater Syracuse community that helped our family get through this incredibly difficult time in our lives.
"It has been an amazing experience to be connected with such a storied program," Moore said. "We have been at Syracuse during a time of unprecedented athletic success, both in our program and in the department as a whole. The culture we have created in our program is magnetic and exciting. We are committed to doing what is necessary to be successful. One of the things we have talked about all season is being comfortable with uncertainty and how you respond to it. The key is how you react to it and facing it with a level of poise and commitment. If you do that, you will be just fine. When you look beyond uncertainty you see excitement for the future."
Today, Moore announced that he is transitioning from the collegiate coaching ranks into private business to impact the sport on a larger scale. He is a co-founder and will be chief coach for Crew by True Rowing, a Cambridge-based company intent on bringing the sport of rowing into peoples' lives.
"I want to impact this sport on all different levels," Moore said. "The percentage of people who row is 0.00004. Our goal is to change that significantly by helping eliminate the two biggest obstacles in our sport – access to the rowing community and time. We want to help people bring the river home so people can experience all of the positive elements of the sport and not have to commit three hours a day doing it. Rowing is a pathway to total health."
"Justin has been a terrific coach in every sense of the word," said Syracuse Director of Athletics John Wildhack. "At the forefront has been his devotion to his student-athletes and their development both athletically and academically. He has been a terrific role model for his coaching staff and has worked tirelessly to support them. Justin leaves with our sincere thanks and best wishes for continued success."
Under Moore's leadership, Syracuse has earned seven top-three conference championship finishes and three trips to the NCAA Championship, including an invitation to this year's Championship scheduled for May 25-27 in Sarasota, Fla. Moore has mentored 22 all-conference selections, 10-all region honorees, five All-Americans. He coached Syracuse's second varsity eight to Atlantic Coast Conference Crew of the Year in 2017, while earning the league's Coach of the Year honor, as well. The Orange has earned a top-20 ranking in each of the past five final US Rowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Polls and is in the top-20 heading into the 2018 NCAA Championship. Since joining the ACC, Syracuse has finished in the top three at the conference championship in all five seasons, including second-place finishes in 2017 and 2018.
"One of my favorite quotes is from Dr. Seuss. 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.' My family and I smile because we were incredibly fortunate and blessed to have been here in this community. It has been an incredibly unique opportunity to work with amazing people. Syracuse is a place where athletic excellence is valued. When you tell people you are associated with Syracuse Athletics, they lean into the conversation. To be associated with the quality of the coaches we have here is inspiring and humbling."
In just his second season at Syracuse, Moore led the Orange varsity four to the BIG EAST Championship, a first for any Syracuse crew since 2005. That same year, 'Cuse earned a No. 20 ranking in the final coaches' poll of the season – its first national ranking in seven years.
This season, the Orange finished as ACC Runner Up for the second-consecutive year. Syracuse began the season ranked 14th and earned a second-place finish at the Doc Hosea Invitational, a regatta that Moore helped to create during his tenure at Syracuse.
"Beyond directly impacting the Syracuse program and our student-athletes, I am extremely proud of the two regattas we co-created in the Doc Hosea Invitational and the Collegiate Small Boat Challenge," Moore said. "The Doc Hosea is a large rowing event that features cross conference competition on a quality racing course to provide impactful experiences for the student-athletes involved. The collegiate small boat regatta introduces the student-athletes to the US Rowing and international rowing competition environment."
A distinguished figure in the rowing community, Moore has presented on rowing and training at numerous clubs, colleges, the US Rowing Convention and the CRCA Coaches Academy.
"Coach Moore and his coaches and athletes have done a remarkable job during his tenure," said Syracuse Alumni Rowing Association (SARA) president Joe Paduda. "He leaves the program in a very good place with multiple invitations to the NCAA Championship, solid recruiting classes, and strength and depth throughout the team. SARA wishes Justin and his family well and thanks him for all he's done for Syracuse Women's Rowing."
Moore has also devoted his time and coaching expertise to the United States Rowing program throughout his career. He was named the Women's Junior National Team coach by US Rowing in 2008 and guided Team USA's 8+ to a gold medal at the World Rowing Junior Championship. The win earned the U.S. a bid to the 2010 Junior World Games in the Czech Republic where it won a pair of medals.
He ran the U.S. Women's Pre-Elite Camp in 2011, his first year at Syracuse, and continued his involvement with US Rowing in the summer of 2012 when he hosted the U23 Women's National Team Training Camp at Syracuse. That same year, he helped the U.S. U23 squad to a gold medal at the U23 World Championships in Trakai, Lithuania.
Prior to coming to Syracuse, Moore invested 11 highly successful seasons in the women's rowing program at Williams College (Mass.). During his tenure, he guided the team to six NCAA Division III NCAA National Championships (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). In 2010, the Ephs became the first NCAA Division III school to win five consecutive NCAA titles. The NCAA only crowned a Division III national champion since 2002, giving Moore six of the possible nine titles during his time there.
He earned CRCA Division III Coach of the Year four times (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010) and was named the National Division III Coach of the Year in 2000. Additionally, he was named the Jimmy Joy Canadian Coaches Women's Coach of the Year in 2000 and won the Joy of Sculling Coaches Conference Award for Collegiate Coaches in 2009.
Moore began his collegiate coaching career as the assistant heavyweight men's coach at Yale from 1996-99. In 1996 he led the freshman boat to the EARC Sprints Championship and, later that summer, a victory in the Temple Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.
Moore and his wife, Lisa, have two children, Quincy and Mackenzie.
"Our family owes a special thanks to all of the people associated with the Golisano Children's Center. As many people know our daughter, Makenzie, was diagnosed with t-cell lymphoma in the second year we were in Syracuse. The doctors, nurses and everyone associated with the Golisano Center were incredible partners in our fight against cancer. We are so fortunate to have moved to a community that is 10 minutes from such an incredible medical center and to have been part of the greater Syracuse community that helped our family get through this incredibly difficult time in our lives.
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