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Billie Moore, Coach of Champions in Women’s Basketball, Dies at 79

She was the first coach to lead two different schools to titles in the 1970s, when the women’s college game was new and struggling.

Billie Moore in 1991, when she was head coach of U.C.L.A.’s women’s basketball team, which she led to a collegiate championship in the 1977-78 season. She earlier coached California State University, Fullerton, to the title.Credit...Gary Newkirk/Allsport, via Getty Images

Billie Moore, a Hall of Fame women’s college basketball coach who became the first to take two different schools to national championships, died on Thursday at her home in Fullerton, Calif.