CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A familiar face returns to the Ivy League as Carrie Moore has been named The Friends of Harvard Women’s Basketball Head Coach, Erin McDermott, The John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, announced today.
 
Moore is set to arrive in Cambridge fresh off helping Michigan to the Elite 8 round of the 2022 NCAA tournament. In her season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Wolverines, she guided Michigan to a 25-7 record (13-4 Big Ten) and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. The Wolverines entered the postseason ranked 12^th in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll — Michigan’s highest regular-season-ending ranking in program history.
 
Prior to her time in Ann Arbor, Moore spent two seasons at North Carolina, serving as the program’s assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. While in Chapel Hill, she guided the Tar Heels to the 2021 NCAA tournament and signed a pair of highly regarded recruiting classes — 2019 class was ranked 10^th-best nationally and 2020 was ranked third, including three McDonald’s All-Americans.
 
Her path to Harvard included two stints with the Princeton women’s basketball program. Moore was an assistant coach for the Tigers, coaching Princeton to back-to-back Ivy regular-season and tournament titles (2017-18, 2018-19) en route to a pair of NCAA appearances and a 2017 WNIT berth. She also served as the Tigers’ director of operations for two seasons (2008-09, 2009-10), with the 2009-10 team capturing the Ivy championship and reaching the NCAA tournament.

Before embarking on a successful coaching career, Moore was a standout player at Western Michigan, where she scored a school-record 2,216 points. As a senior in 2006-07, she was named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year after leading the nation in scoring at 25.4 points per game, marking the first time a MAC player won the Division I scoring title. In addition to her efforts on the court, which included her setting nine school records and four league records, Moore was a star in the classroom, collecting Academic All-America Second-Team accolades and landing on the nominee list for the Senior CLASS Award. She graduated magna cum laude from WMU in 2007, with a degree in journalism.
 
Once her time as a Division I player was up, Moore signed WNBA free agent contracts with the Phoenix Mercury and Chicago Sky, and then played professionally for one season in Poland.
 
Moore takes the reigns of the Harvard basketball program following the retirement of Kathy Delaney-Smith, who coached the Crimson for the past 40 seasons. Delaney-Smith finished her career with a record of 630-434, including a 367-168 mark in Ivy League action, 11 Ivy championships and 16 postseason appearances. Her 630 overall wins and 367 conference victories are the most of any head coach, of any sport – men's or women's – in the history of the Ivy League.