• As a player, he led Canada West in scoring in 1971-72, when the Golden Bears finished third in the CIAU.
• Assistant and head coach for the Golden Bears from 1976 to 1994.
• In seven seasons as the Bears head coach, named Canada West Coach of the Year seven times and CIAU Coach of the Year twice.
• Won the CIAU championship twice, and the Canada West title five times.
• Head coach of the Kokudo Bunnies in Japan (1994-96), assistant coach with the New York Rangers (1996-98), and assistant coach with the Edmonton Oilers (2000-09).

This inductee to the Sports Wall of Fame was a talented hockey player. He starred for the Golden Bears in 1971.72, a season during which he lead the Canada West in scoring and the Bears to a league-winning record of 18-2-0 (.900). The Bears finished that season with a record of 30-5-1 (.847) and third place in the CIAU championship tournament. Before moving on to the Golden Bears roster, Bill played with the major Junior A League Edmonton Oil Kings for four seasons (1966-1970)- one of which as the team's captain and on two occasions as a league all-star. Bill moved on to play for the Edmonton Monarchs, a senior hockey league team, for one season before joining the Bears.

While Bill was known as an outstanding athlete, it is as a builder of sport that he has left his greatest legacy. Bill Moores ranks as one of our University's great coaches. From 1976 to 1994 Moores was an outstanding member of the coaching staff of the Golden Bears Ice Hockey team - for ten of these years he was an assistant coach and for seven, head coach. He was first named as head coach during the 1979-1980 season when Clare Drake was seconded to serve as the head coach of the Canadian Olympic team. He assumed head coaching duties again in 1983-1984 and later replaced Coach Drake as the team's head coach in 1989 serving in that capacity until 1994. In his seven seasons as the Golden Bears' head coach, the team's overall win-loss-tie record was 220-80-23 (.717) and in the Canada West Conference 129-44-20 (.720). Peers of Moores have always held him in high esteem. He was named as the Canada West Hockey Coach of the Year on four occasions - 1984, 1990, 1991, 1993 -and as the CIAU Coach of the Year in 1980 and 1991. During his years as the head coach of the Bears, Bill lead them to five CIAU national championship tournaments and to University Cup victories in 1980 and 1992. His teams won five Canada West Conference titles and never finished lower than second place - a remarkable record!

Even more remarkable is the fact that while winning championships was an important goal it was never Bill's main goal. His "ultimate goal" was to cultivate the whole person and he used sport as the vehicle to do this. His greatest efforts were aimed at helping each player meet their potential as a human being - he prepared his athletes for their future in any walk of life.

When Bill left the University it was to accept a head coaching position in Japan (1994-1996) and then an assistant coaching position with the New York Rangers (1996-1998). He then joined the team of hockey experts who had developed the innovative Doman School program that provides Edmonton youngsters with the opportunity to combine an academic program with a high-level hockey program. In 2000 Kevin Lowe and Craig MacTavish invited Bill to join the coaching staff of the Edmonton Oilers.

As an athlete and as a builder of ice hockey programs, Bill Moores has always been a leader. The University is proud to have him join other great athletes and builders on our Sports Wall of Fame.