HOLLAND MOORE
- mercertrackhall
- Sep 22
- 1 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Trenton Central High School -- Coach
You cannot accurately or effectively write the history of Mercer County track over the second half of the 20th Century without recognizing and acknowledging the contributions of Trenton High track coach Holland Moore.
How profound was Moore’s impact on the Mercer County track and field landscape in general and at Trenton High in particular? No one stat can encompass this titan’s countless accomplishments, but over 36 years of official coaching (that culminated at the end of the millennium),
Moore’s proteges included over 3,000 track and cross country athletes. To these opportunities, Moore’s penmanship of discipline, technique, perseverance and excellence authored the following accomplishments:
At one juncture, Moore’s teams did not lose a track dual meet for a decade. In the fall, his Tornadoes won a state championship in Group IV boys’ cross country. In the winter, the Lower Merion, Pa. product paced nine Mercer County team titlists. And in the spring, Trenton overcame many of the best teams in New Jersey track and field history by winning 13 outdoor county titles and five Group IV state track championships.
At the peak of his acumen, Moore was a national scholastic figure, coaching the famed 1978 Trenton team to two first-place finishes at the Penn Relay Carnival (and nearly a third). The records set in what is widely regarded as the greatest 48 hours in New Jersey scholastic track history stood for decades and made Moore a clear selection by most pundits as New Jersey Track Coach of the Year.
