Class of 2015

Tim Moore is a 1965 graduate of Bainbridge-Guilford High School where he was a member of the wrestling team. He continued his wrestling career at Dutchess Community College. After graduating from St. Lawrence University he accepted a teaching position at LaFargeville Central School where he started their first wrestling team. He recruited wrestlers from his classes and hallways and convinced them to give this sport a try. Not one person had ever wrestled before but they often won more matches than their opponents, even though they would lose the dual because of forfeits. In their first year Tim had 2 wrestlers qualify for sectionals. During the 3 years he taught in LaFargeville, he had a sectional champ, sectional place winners, Frontier league champs and Class D & E champs and place winners.

In 1972 Tim moved to Fulton to start a business and sadly, with Tims departure, the wrestling program in LaFargeville ended. One of his promising wrestlers, Randy Gillette, moved to Fulton to continue his high school wrestling career becoming a 3 time sectional champ, 2 time NYS place winner and a NYS champion.

In 1982, Tim returned to the classroom and became part of the Fulton wrestling program. He was the assistant Junior High coach with Jim Werbeck from 1982-1984. He became the Freshman coach in 1985; the assistant varsity coach in 1992 and the Junior Varsity coach from 1996-2007 with a JV record of 167-8. His JV teams won the Union-Endicott tournament 10 years in a row. One coach jokingly asked him to stay home so someone else could win.

He loved coaching the JV kids because they were always trying to learn new skills. Tim was constantly looking for ways to make the training different and fun. Innovative strength training found wrestlers pushing his van by the lake. Tim started the Summer Wrestling league and ran that program for 6 years. An unknown effort one year found him contacting wrestling shoe suppliers to obtain free or on sale wrestling shoes which he collected and gave to a city school district wrestling program.

Tim would work many hours outside the season with student athletes to not only make them better wrestlers, but better people. His wrestlers were involved in AAU Nationals, Empire State Games, wrestling camps and tournaments as well as being required to become involved in a community service project. In 2002 he was named by Wrestling USA as runner up Assistant Coach of the year. He has been an integral part of the Fulton Wrestling program for many years through 3 head coaches and 8 state championships.

Tim lives in Fulton with his wife Dianne. They have 5 children; Susan, Sarah, Rachel, Nathan and Celia and 8 grandchildren.