Bio

Chris Moore is graduate of Warwick High School in Newport News and joined the College in fall 2018 as the men’s basketball coach. He assumed the athletics director role July 18, 2022. 

As the athletics director, Moore is overseeing the expansion of the College’s intercollegiate sports teams from three to nine, which will be completed with the addition of two as-yet-unnamed sports for the 2024-25 academic year. 

As the men’s basketball coach, he led the Gators to a 16-1 record in the 2021-22 season, which culminated in the program’s first conference title since 2015. Moore was named the 2021-22 New South Athletic Conference Coach of the Year and the Small College Sports Coach of the Year. Moore, who attended VPCC in 2008-10, also attended Virginia Wesleyan College and Chowan University. 

Before joining the College as the men’s basketball coach, he was the director of basketball operations at Longwood University (2017-18), and a graduate assistant basketball coach at Mount St. Mary’s University (2016-17), where he was a part of the Northeast Conference regular season and conference tournament champions. Moore also has coached at Massanutten Military Academy, Team Loaded AAU, and multiple high schools throughout the state.

He has trained and coached numerous professional athletes, including Mark Williams (Charlotte Hornets), Cam Thomas (Brooklyn Nets), and Isaiah Todd (NBA G League). His father, the late Ben Moore, coached basketball for nearly 30 years in the Peninsula District.