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Yahsha Moore

Yahsha Moore

UPDATED July 3, 2024

Former Warrior student-athlete Yahsha Moore was named women's tennis head coach on July 3, 2024.  She had joined the women’s tennis coaching staff in 2017-18 as a volunteer assistant and was serving as an assistant coach for the sixth straight season during the 2023-24 academic year, until elevated to interim head coach on March 1, 2024.

She helped guide the Warriors to an unbeaten GLIAC slate (7-0) in 2024 as well as the GLIAC Tournament championship, an NCAA Midwest Regional title, and a victory at the NCAA Sweet 16 to advance to the national quarterfinals.  Moore compiled a 17-3 mark as the interim head coach this past spring.

In addition, five of her student-athletes were named Academic All-GLIAC with four of those players earning All-Academic Excellence Team honors, including Anais Ruyssen, who was selected as the College Sports Communicators Division 2 women's tennis Academic All-American of the Year.

On the court, the 2024 team garnered GLIAC Player of the Year (Anais Ruyssen) recognition, while Ruyssen and Malak Arafat were voted First Team All-GLIAC for singles.  Marta Komar and Martyna Szpakowska received Second Team All-GLIAC honors for singles, while Ruyssen/Komar and Arafat/Szpakowska registered First Team All-GLIAC awards for doubles.  Dea Gorgidze was named Honorable Mention All-GLIAC.

Moore was selected as the ITA Midwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year for the 2022-23 campaign.  In addition, she was selected for Wayne State's Hall of Fame in 2020 (induction ceremony took place in February of 2022 due to the pandemic).

In her six-plus years on head coach Sheila Snyder's staff, the Warriors compiled an 111-41 record, qualified for five NCAA Tournaments (2018-19-20-22-23), won four GLIAC Tournament titles (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2022 and Spring 2023), claimed the Fall 2019 GLIAC regular-season title, and shared the Spring 2022 GLIAC regular-season title.

As a Warrior student-athlete, she was a four-year tennis letterwinner (2011-15) and a four-time All-GLIAC performer (First Team in 2012-13-14 and Second Team in 2011).

Moore concluded her collegiate career first in school history with 97 doubles victories and third with 87 singles victories.  She won 79 percent of her collegiate matches compiling a 184-49 record, while playing primarily No. 1 singles and first doubles.  After playing No. 3 singles and second doubles as a freshman, Moore played No. 1 singles and first doubles her final three seasons.

Her senior season, Moore was ranked first in the Midwest Region in doubles (for the second consecutive year) and third in the Region in singles, after being ranked sixth in singles as a junior.  Each of her last two years she was ranked in the top-25 nationally in doubles (25th as a junior and 19th as a senior).

She helped lead the Warriors to a 90-18 overall record with three NCAA Tournament appearances.

In her junior season, Wayne State won the first NCAA regional title in program history advancing to the NCAA Round of 16 for the first time ever.

WSU won the 2014 GLIAC Regular-Season and Tournament titles, the first for the program since 1982, after finishing second the three previous years.

A native of West Bloomfield, Moore received a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master's degree in Sports Administration.  She earned Academic Honor Roll status three different semesters.
 
Year Won Lost Pct. GLIAC
2023-24 @*#$ 17 3 .850 1st


$ - NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals appearance.
# - Wayne State won NCAA regional title.
* - NCAA Tournament appearance.
@ - Wayne State won the GLIAC Tournament title.


Moore's student-athlete bio:
 
Career Notes:  Has the program record with 97 doubles victories, which is one more than her doubles partner Anne Li Briand ... ranks third all-time in singles victories (87) ... reached the 100-victory milestone overall during the 2013-14 season ... finished with a 184-49 record overall across singles and doubles.

2014-15: Voted to the All-GLIAC First Team ... ranked third in the regional ITA singles rankings ... named GLIAC Player of the Week on Oct. 21 after going 4-0 over Hillsdale and Saginaw Valley State ... went 21-8 overall including a 9-2 mark in conference contests ... went 17-7 at No. 1 singles and 4-1 at the ITA Midwest Regionals ... topped Grand Valley State in her match at No. 1 singles during the GLIAC Tournament (4-6, 6-3, 6-1) ... topped Northwood at No. 1 singles during the NCAA Tournament ... tallied a 27-3 record in doubles including a  11-1 GLIAC record ... the pair were ranked 19th nationally and the top team in the region ... went 24-2 at No. 1 doubles with Anne Li Briand (23-2) and Julia Kamenko (1-0) ... Briand and Moore went 3-0 during the GLIAC Tournament ...  the duo also won at No. 1 doubles against Northwood in the NCAA Tournament to extend their winning streak to seven to end the season ... Match-by-Match Results.

2013-14:  Named All-GLIAC First Team ... voted team captain ... named GLIAC Women's Tennis "Athlete of the Week" (9/18) ... finished season 25-6 in singles and 24-10 in doubles, all from the top flights ... teamed with Anne Li Briand to go 4-1 in 'A' flight doubles and finish runner-up at ITA Midwest Regional Tournament ... posted three straight victories and finished 3-1 in 'A' singles at ITA Regional Tournament ... had a 23-4 singles and doubles record combined in conference matches ... posted 20-8 record in doubles with Anne Li Briand at the No. 1 flight ... also had 22-5 dual-match record at No. 1 singles ... won 7-5, 6-3 NCAA Midwest regional match over Missouri-St. Louis' Lina Parra at No. 1 singles ... won second set, 6-2, off No. 2-nationally ranked singles player, Aleksndra Filipovski, of Armstrong Atlantic in the NCAA Tournament Round of 16 ... finished season ranked No. 6 in singles in the ITA Midwest region and No. 2 in doubles ... was ranked No. 25 nationally in doubles with Briand during the season ... tied single-season record for wins in doubles (24) with Anne Li Briand ... concluded the year ranked as the No. 1 doubles tandem in the Midwest Region with Anne Li Briand ... was ranked as the sixth best singles player in the Midwest Region in May 2014 ... Match-by-Match results.

2012-13:  Earned All-GLIAC First Team honors ... named to the GLIAC All-Academic team ... selected GLIAC Women's Tennis "Athlete of the Week" (9/25) ... posted 14-0 GLIAC record in singles ... finished 18-9 overall, playing solely at the top flight in singles ... recorded a doubles mark of 23-7 teaming with Anne Li Briand in the first flight ... had a 13-match winning streak in doubles (9/15-10/28) ... went 4-1, reaching championship match in doubles, with Anne Li Briand at ITA Regional Tournament ... also compiled a 2-1 mark in singles at ITA Regional Tournament ... ranked 11th in singles and third in doubles in the final ITA Midwest Region ... Match-by-Match results.

2011-12:  Earned All-GLIAC Second Team honors ... finished with a singles record of 23-3 primarily at the third flight ... second on the team and tied for second all-time in WSU history with 23 singles wins in a season ... posted a doubles record of 23-3 with Anne Li Briand at the second flight, also tying program record for second most wins in a single season ... had two seven-match winning streaks at singles (9/2-9/17; 10/23-3/13) ... Match-by-Match results.

High School:  A 2011 graduate of West Bloomfield High School ... played four years at the varsity level for the Lakers ... served as team captain during her junior and senior seasons ... primarily played No. 1 singles ... selected to the Class A All-State team in 2009 and 2010 ... earned team MVP honors in 2009 and 2011 ... was a state semi-finalist in No. 3 singles as a freshman ... followed it up with a state finals appearance in 2009 ... plays with the United States Tennis Association.

Personal:  Full name -- Yahsha S. Moore ... daughter of Larry and Sandra Moore ... has a brother, Dennis, and a sister, Michelle ... received a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master's degree in Sports Administration ... named to the Coach's Honor Roll (term gpa 3.0-3.49) for Fall 2011, Winter 2012 and Fall 2012 ... was a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and was the 2013-14 co-president of SAAC.