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Jessica Moore joined the Bulls as an assistant coach in July of 2015 after coaching for a year at Idaho State University. Moore works primarily with the Bulls’ pitching staff. For 2020, Moore was named the interim head coach while Ken Eriksen led the USA National Team in preparation for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

In 2020, Moore and USF rallied after a slow start to finish the shortened season with a 16-9 record. Moore guided the team past an 0-6 start in which the Bulls battled four ranked teams and a fifth that was receiving votes to win 11 of its next 12, including wins over No. 12 Tennessee, No. 15 Georgia, and No. 17 Texas Tech. She also developed a young pitching staff led by All-American Georgina Corrick, who was named The American's Pitcher of the Week three times and the NFCA/Wilson National Pitcher of the Week.

2019 continued to bring success for the pitching staff. Moore helped the Bulls drop the team’s ERA down to 2.14, while also seeing decreases in WHIP (1.05) and opposing batting average (.201). She also continued the development of Georgina Corrick, who was USF softball’s 10th All-American after a 25-6 campaign. Moore, along with the rest of the softball coaching group, were named The American Coaching Staff of the Year for the second consecutive season. 

In the 2018 season, Moore helped nurture young Corrick, who threw USF’s first no-hitter since 2015, as only the second freshman at USF to do so. Corrick had an incredible debut season under Moore, earning American Athletic Conference co-Pitcher of the Year, Rookie of the Year, First Team All-Conference, and All-Rookie Team honors. Head coach Ken Eriksen, and assistant coaches Moore and Ricciardone were named The American Coaching Staff of the Year in 2018. 

In her first season with USF in 2016, Moore’s pitching staff improved greatly from the 2015 season, finishing with a 2.48 combined ERA and 308 strikeouts. In conference play, the team ERA improved from 4.67 in 2015 to 1.57 under Moore’s guidance. Senior pitcher Erica Nunn boasted an ERA of 0.74 in conference play, a drastic change from her 3.19 ERA in 2015. Moore helped Nunn earn All-America honors in 2016. 

A former All-American at the University of Oregon, Moore helped lead the Ducks to the Women’s College World Series in 2012 and three NCAA Super Regional appearances. Moore was also a three-time All-Pac-12 selection and was named Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year during her senior season. She graduated from Oregon in 2013 as the school record-holder in appearances (176), wins (100) and strikeouts (915). She was also the sixth overall pick in the 2013 National Pro Fastpitch Draft.

Following a record-breaking career at Oregon, Moore joined the coaching staff at Idaho State for the 2013 and 2014 season, when she helped develop a young pitching staff into Big Sky Conference champions. Under Moore’s guidance, pitcher Jessica Tolmie was named a second-team All-Big Sky Conference honoree while Haley Douglas set the single-season school record for wins with 19.

Moore played under Eriksen as a member of the USA Women’s National Softball Team for the 2013-2017 seasons, helping lead the Red, White and Blue to back-to-back World Cup of Softball titles.

In 2016, Moore threw 16.3 innings at the WBSC Women’s World Championship to lead the Bulls to a gold medal. In her 16 innings, she allowed just three earned runs and struck out 23 batters. Moore threw a complete-game shutout in the quarterfinals and was the winning pitcher in the championship game. As a member of the pitching staff, Moore helped the Red, White and Blue to a 1.19 ERA and just eight allowed earned runs. She was also named the WBSC Pitcher of the Year in 2016 for her efforts. 

Moore returned to the field with Team USA in the summer of 2017, when she earned a dominating gold medal win over Mexico in the Pan American Championships. Moore entered in relief in the top of the first inning, tossing 4.1 scoreless innings with one strikeout, two hits and one walk.