Moore Traditional High School

Moore Traditional High School
Address
6415 Outer Loop, Louisville, KY 40228 Louisville, Kentucky USA
Coordinates	38°8′22″N 85°38′15″W / 38.13944°N 85.63750°WCoordinates: 38°8′22″N 85°38′15″W / 38.13944°N 85.63750°W
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Mustang Nation!
Established	1969
Locale	Suburban
Principal	Vicki Lete
Faculty	107
Grades	6–12
Number of students	1,839
Color(s)	Navy Blue & Gray black
Mascot	Mustang
Yearbook	Saga
Website	Official Website

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 state 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.

Soccer

Moore Mustang's Soccer team began their first season of play in 2010, coached by Jake McKinney, lead by Salvador Lopez and Edwin Padilla. The Mustangs began the building process of constructing a good program but results came slim for their starting season of play coming up with a season result of 1-5-0. 2011-2012 Season The Moore Mustangs implemented Edwin Juarez and Elmer Padilla as well as a new coach, Paul Vitato who all began to bring the Mustangs into the 7th Region League. Improving from 2010, The Mustangs slowly improved their soon to be dominance run into their local district, finishing the season 4-10-1.

Three Peat

2012-2013, Lorenzo Lopez added to the squad in the Forward position, leading the team alongside Elmer Padilla. Starting off slow, The Mustangs managed to win their first District Championship of District 23 beating Southern 1-0 in a nerve wrecking game. Moving into the Regional tournament for the first time in history of the team, they sadly lost in the first round to Whitefield Academy 0-3 ending their season in a 5-6-0 record. 2013-2014 Coach Paul Vitato stepped down implementing two new coach's who would lead the team on forward. Coach's Robert Evan Markert and Matthias Kansu Martinez. Leading the Moore Mustangs onto a Back to Back District Championship win against their rivals, Southern High School 2-1. Moving into the Regional 6th tournament, they lose in the first round to Fairdale at home 3-0. 2014-2015 Coach Martinez and Markert start the building process in recruiting five freshman players from middle school, and also a few more important roles. Now lead by Kenan Sefer, Lorenzo Lopez, Brian Rodriguez, Jose Salazar, and Christopher Romero. They win for the third consecutive time the 2014-2015 District Championship of District 23.