Annie Moore just finished her third season at her alma mater as an assistant coach with the men’s and women’s team in 2014-15 and will now focus as an assistant coach with the women this year. Her duties with the Titans include, on the court instruction, recruiting and fundraising.
During her time on the coaching staff, the Titan men’s team has made two postseason appearances – including a run to the Horizon League Championship semifinals in 2013. Her coaching duties with the women’s program has seen the team make three-straight trips to the HL Championship semifinals, finishing runner-up in 2014-15.
In her three seasons with the women, the Titans have posted 39 wins and 16 conference victories. Just this past season in 2014-15, Detroit broke two school records with a 16-9 overall mark and a 7-1 ledger in league play. UDM would end up taking second place in the regular season and then made its third appearance in school history in the conference championship match, falling to top-seeded Youngstown State in a hard-fought 4-2 decision.
Along the way, Sasha Nionova was named the Horizon League Freshman of the Year and First Team All-HL, while junior Valeryia Kulikovskaya and sophomore Anna Davydova were Second Team recipients. It is only the third time that the Titans have received multiple All-League players with the three selections representing the most in school history.
In 2012-13, Detroit was 12-6 (5-2 HL) during the regular season, while in 2013-14, UDM tallied an 11-8 (5-3 HL) mark. It was a historic season in 2012-13 as Detroit secured a 4-3 win over UIC on April 6, 2013, on the road in Chicago, the first time the Flames had lost a conference match in 146-straight attempts and UIC’s first loss to a conference opponent since 1996. UIC would then look for its 18th-straight championship the following season, but the fourth-seeded Titans ended that bid with a 4-1 triumph over the top seed in the 2014 HL Championship semifinals.
Prior to serving as an assistant coach at UDM, the St. Clair, Michigan, native spent four season on the Titans women’s tennis team, helping the red, white and blue to a then-school record for overall wins, and conference wins, and school’s first trip to the Horizon League Championship title match.
As a Titan, Moore became the first Detroit women’s tennis player to be named to the All-Horizon League Team on three separate occasions. During her rookie season in 2006, Moore was the first-ever player voted Horizon League Newcomer of the Year and Player of the Year by the conference coaches in the same season. During that 2006 season, Moore broke the school records for wins by a freshman, and wins by any player in a year, posting 26 victories overall.
Her numbers rank third in school history with 72 singles wins, second with 65 doubles wins and second tallying 137 total overall victories.
She graduated from Detroit in 2009 with a degree in Communications and is currently working on her MBA.
