Tamara Moore, First African American Female, to Coach a College Men’s Basketball Team
A short story about rising to be the creme of the crop.
Tamara Moore made history by becoming the first African American female basketball player to coach a college men’s basketball team at Iron Range college. She has knocked down a door that will allow others equally capable females to do the same. Her accomplishment is a double compliment being the first to coach a male basketball team and blazing a new path at Iron Range college.
She has always aspired to be a trailblazer and this is another notch on her trailblazing belt. In 1998, she was named the first African American Ms. Basketball in Minnesota during her senior year at Minneapolis North Community High School.
Note, since there was no game for girls, she bravely played in the Minneapolis inner-city all-star classic game for boys. With the Minnesota Lynx, she coached a semi-pro men’s team and founded a new men’s minor basketball league. Moore always charted her path with great precision and tenacity.
Therefore it was befitting and practically karmic to trailblazing another path. Moore, 41, most recently blazed another trail at Iron Range College being the first African American and one of only three women being the head coach of a men’s college basketball program.
