Amber Moore is in her second season as assistant women's basketball coach at HBU.
The 2019-20 season saw the Huskies take the floor with five highly-touted freshmen and a returning class which included five seniors. Timia Jefferson led all freshmen in the Southland Conference in scoring with a 10.2 clip on the year. Junior point guard Megan Valdez-Crader led the Huskies in scoring overall with 11.1 points per game, while Abbey Sutherland and Marilyn Nzowiu featured among the top players in the league in blocked shots. HBU had a couple of big road wins in the non-conference over ORU and ULM and a close game at Texas Tech, before starting conference play. The Huskies struggled with consistency in conference play, missing key players throughout, but showed improvement, particularly from the five freshmen. The team posted a 3.723 GPA for the year, with a record breaking 3.9 GPA in the spring semester. The team had all 15 athletes over a 3.5 for the semester and with cumulative GPAs all above a 3.0 for the first time in the program’s history.
Moore has spent the previous two seasons as an assistant coach at Saint Leo University in Tampa, Florida. In March of 2018, she was named to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's "Thirty Under 30" list. In her first season with the Lions, she helped the team to the second-most Sunshine State Conference wins in program history, finishing 8-12 in the SSC and 13-16 overall.
Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Moore earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois, where she was a member of the Illini women's basketball team. As shooting guard, she holds the Illinois' career 3-pointers record with 295 made over her career and her .847 (172-of-203) career free throw percentage also tops the all-time list at her alma mater. Moore also set the program's single-season made 3-pointers record with 88 during the 2013-14 season.
Following her collegiate career at Illinois, Moore played professionally for two seasons in Slovakia and Finland. After her stint in Europe, she began her coaching career with a year as an assistant coach at Urbana High School in Urbana, Illinois.
