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Deb Moore is in her fourth year as Assistant Media Relations Director at Kentucky. Moore first joined the Wildcat athletics department as a media relations assistant in July 2006. Moore currently works with Kentucky's nationally ranked softball and volleyball teams. She has worked with a number of All-America athletes, including softball's Molly Johnson who became UK's first softball All-American in 2009. In the fall of 2009, the UK volleyball team advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time in the Craig Skinner era and three players earned All-America distinctions - the highest total for a single season in Kentucky history. Moore served as the Media Coordinator for the First and Second Rounds of the NCAA Volleyball tournament in 2008 and 2009. Additionally, Moore worked with the 2009 UK softball team that made its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Since coming to UK, she has also worked with the men's tennis, women's golf and the swimming and diving teams. In 2007, Moore served as the Media Coordinator for the SEC Championships. Diver Taryn Ignacio and the women's 200-freestyle relay team captured gold medals in the home confines of the Lancaster Aquatic Center. Additionally, Moore worked with the 2007 Kentucky football team that won back-to-back Music City Bowl Championships. The Wildcats that season charted comeback victories over No. 9 Louisville and the three-overtime thriller against No. 1 LSU. Along with other members of the UK athletics staff, Moore helped produce such web features for UK's official website UKathletics.com. Those features were "Get to Know the Wildcats" and "Johnson vs. Rumely: The All-American Challenge." Prior to her arrival in Lexington, Moore earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism/Mass Communication from St. Bonaventure University. While at SBU she worked as an undergraduate assistant for two years in the sports information department. Moore served as the Media Coordinator for the 2006 Atlantic 10 Swimming and Diving Championships where the Bonnies captured the men's title for the first time in nearly a decade. In the summer of 2005, Moore interned with the public relations staff of the WNBA's Washington Mystics. The Fredericksburg, Va., native is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). She is the daughter of Dave and Jodi Moore, and has one sister, Kate, who is a sophomore at Kentucky. |
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