Sports News: Spring 2004

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

MORAVIAN’S JOE MOORE TO COMPETE AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Senior Joe Moore (Andover, NJ/Newton HS) of the Moravian College men’s outdoor track & field team will be competing in the 2004 NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships hosted by Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois from Thursday, May 27th until Saturday, May 29th.

Moore is one of 15 competitors in the long jump. Each student-athlete will compete a preliminary flight with the top nine distances moving onto the finals. The long jump competition will begin at 2:00 central daylight time of Friday, May 28th.

Moore enters the competition tied for 11th with a leap of 7.06 meters (23 feet, two inches) at the Jim Tuppeny Twilight Meet hosted by Villanova University on May 10th. Moore will be trying to win his second NCAA Division III Individual National Championship after winning the title indoors in March of 2003. A knee injury kept Moore, who was selected as the Moravian College Outstanding Senior Male Athlete for 2004, from competing at the outdoor championships last spring.