| BALLARD JEWELL MOORE 1953 |
| Dr. Ballard Moore was born on June 24, 1935 in Bardstown, Kentucky.
He received his early education at Bethlehem Academy and St. Joe Prep,
graduating in 1953. Subsequently, he earned his Bachelors, masters
and Ph. .d, degrees from Western Kentucky University, University of
Kentucky, and Louisiana State University respectively. He joined the teaching faculty at the University of Kentucky in 1958, where he also served as Head Tennis Coach for four seasons. During one season, 1962-1963, he was an assistant basketball coach under the legendary Adolph Rupp. Moore returned to his alma mater, Western Kentucky University in 1964. During the time he was an undergraduate there he lettered four years on the varsity tennis team, playing the number one singles and doubles positions during his senior year. From 1964-1967, he was on the teaching faculty and assistant tennis coach. In the fall of 1967, he accepted a teaching and coaching position at Jefferson State Junior College in Birmingham, Alabama. He was to remain there until he retired at the end of 1993, having accumulated 751 collegiate wins, coached over 50 All-Americans and amended t two national championships. As a player he won four Wisconsin Doubles titles in various senior age groups, as well as one Mid-Western title. In 2001 and 2003 he and his son Curtis Guy were nationally ranked 8 and 10 respectively in father-son doubles. From 1989 to 1995 Moore taught wheelchair tennis across America, Europe and Japan. During this era he served as the USA Men's Wheelchair Tennis Coach, winning world championships in 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1995. In 2009 he was honored by the United States Tennis Association for his contributions to wheelchair tennis. Moore has been inducted into several Halls of Fame; namely (1) Alabama Tennis Hall of Fame; (2) Alabama Junior College Hall of Fame; (30 the National Junior College Hall of Fame. Dr. Moore's published books include "Cartoon Illustrated Tennis Rules: (1970); "Beginning Tennis for the Love of Tennis"(1975); "Shuttlecock Action" (1977); "Wheelchair Tennis, Myth to Reality" (1994); Teaching Wheelchair Tennis" (1998); and "203 Wheelchair Tennis Drills" (1999). The United States Professional Tennis Association honored Moore with a Master Professional Rating in 1989, and naked him USA Collegiate Tennis Coach of the Year in 1992. He personally wrote and developed wheelchair tennis certification for the USPTA, which is now administered in the USA and worldwide. In 1992, Moore and his wife, Marcha, were chosen as tennis coaches for the Para-Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. The USA men won gold medals in singles and doubles, while the USA women won a silver medal in singles. Dr. Moore has been married to Marcha Guy of Mound, Minnesota for 46 years and they currently reside in Naples, Florida. They have two sons, Curtis Guys living in New Jersey. and Scott Monroe, both teaching tennis professional
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