Moore Traditional High School

Moore Traditional School
Address
6415 Outer Loop Louisville, Kentucky, 40228 United States
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	1968
School district	Jefferson County Public Schools
Principal	Vicki Lete
Grades	6-12
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Navy and Grey
Mascot	Mustangs
Website	School Board Site

Coordinates: 38°08′22″N 85°38′15″W / 38.13950°N 85.63750°W / 38.13950; -85.63750 Moore Traditional School is a middle school and high school located at 6415 Outer Loop in Louisville, Kentucky.

The students at Moore moved into their beautiful new building in January, 1969. This building, which is the largest of all high schools in Jefferson County, Kentucky, was notable for a number of features. The large main gymnasium was contained in the center of the building, off the lobby, and bordered by two parallel rows of classrooms. The art classrooms, located on the second floor of the western end of the building, had balconies that overlooked a courtyard below that separated the main building from the small industrial arts building immediately to its west.

Moore High School added a grade in each of the three succeeding years so that by the 1971-1972 school year, the school contained grades 7-12 for the first time. Moore High School immediately made a name for itself in music, as the band won a state championship in those early years and the choral music department put on the musicals "Brigadoon" (1971), "Oklahoma" (1972) and "Pajama Game" (1973).

Football

The Moore Mustangs fielded their first varsity football team in the fall of 1970 at a time when the school's highest grade was its junior class (class of 1972). The going was very difficult early on, as the 1970 team finished 0-10, as did the 1971 team (which contained seniors for the first time). The 1972 varsity football team was able to tie Doss High School and Fern Creek High School but still remained winless, finishing 0-8-2. At that time, Moore's combined record stood at 0-28-2.

Things changed for the 1973 Moore team, however. Many of its players had played in the three seasons leading up to 1973 and had been toughened by that experience. The first game of the season ended in a 6-6 tie with the Western Warriors. Moore traveled to face Ballard High School for its second game of the season and defeated the Bruins 21-12 for its first victory in the school's history. Moore also defeated Fairdale High School, Durrett High School, Fern Creek High School and Southern High School during the 1973 season to compile its first winning season at 5 wins, 4 losses and 1 tie. The victory over Southern was notable for the fact that Southern went on to play in the 1973 Class AAA (then the highest Kentucky school classification) state championship game (losing 16-7 to the Trinity Shamrocks) and was quarterbacked by a future Super Bowl MVP, Phil Simms (1986, New York Giants). While Simms did not play against Moore due to an injured shoulder, neither did Moore's multi-talented star quarterback Bruce Gilbert, so the teams played the game on a fairly even basis.

Wrestling

Moore also has a 6th grade-12th grade wrestling team that has placed many in the middle school state such as Sam Willbanks, Jason Hall, and Blake Kraft. Moore also has had several high school satte placers including Jeff Simms, Tony and Scott Bridgewaters, John Blanton, Trey Oswald, James Schneider, and Zack Michael. Moore's head coach is Mike thomas a former student of Moore, and former wrestler for Moore. Moore has multiple tournaments each year such as the big brother tournament where the middle school team teams up with the high school. They also have the two horsepower wrestling tournaments one for the middle school and one for the high school. Moore placed second at the 2009 horsepower high school tournament. The only team dual they lost in that tournament was to southern who went 5-0 and won the tournament. Moore went 4-1 with great matches from all who participated. 2010-2011 school year middle school placed 2nd at districs and 3rd at regional and had state placers.(Bobby Poynter shaun whittinghill,Cameron Bryant,and Toby Sidens)