Marcha Guy Moore - 1994

Marcha Guy Moore was born November 15, 1940, in Kansas City, Missouri.  She was raised in Mound, Minnesota and graduated form Mound High School in 1959.  She attended Mankato State College in Mankato, Minnesota where she was a physical education major and president of the major’s club.  Marcha graduated with a BS in 1963. 

Upon graduation Marcha began her teaching career at Horace Mann Junior High School in Wausau, Wisconsin.  In 1964 she began her Master’s degree at Western Kentucky University while teaching as a graduate assistant.  She completed her Master’s degree in 1966. 

Marcha began her career at Jefferson State in 1967.  She began coaching tennis in 1975.  Since 1975 Marcha’s teams have finished in the top eight in the National Junior College Athletic Association Women’s Championships seven times with the highest finish being 4^th in 1992 and 1993.  Marcha’s teams have won the Region XXII NJCAA championship fifteen times since 1978 and eleven consecutive times since 1982. 

Marcha has been Region XXII Coach of the Year fifteen consecutive times.  She served as President of the Women’s Tennis Coaching Association for the NJCAA from 1989 – 1993.  Marcha received the Women’s Sports Foundation National Coaching Awards in 1991.  She coached the American Paralympics Wheelchair Tennis Team in Barcelona, Spain in 1992.  She also coached the American women in the World team cup held in Warmbad Villach, Austria, August 1993. 

Marcha was named intercollegiate Coach of the Year for 1993.  She was also inducted into the NJCAA Women’s Coaches Hall of Fame in 1993. 

Marcha has been very active in volunteer coaching for wheelchair athletes since 1989.  Marcha is married to Dr. Bal Moore.  She has two sons, Guy, 25 and Scott, 22.