BATON ROUGE – With the 2015 indoor track and field season already underway, the LSU Tigers have bolstered their squad with the addition of TCU’s All-American and Big 12 Champion hurdler Jordan Moore as the former Horned Frog has joined in team training and looks to make his debut this weekend at Kentucky’s Rod McCravy Invitational.
Moore arrives in Baton Rouge with a championship pedigree as the 2014 Big 12 Conference Champion in both the 60-meter hurdles indoors and 110-meter hurdles outdoors during his redshirt freshman season at TCU a year ago. He was also an NCAA Championship semifinalist in both events as one of the nation’s top sprint hurdlers during the 2014 season.
Moore, who will line up as a sophomore with the Tigers, boasts personal bests of 7.70 seconds in the 60 hurdles and 13.72 in the 110 hurdles as one of the NCAA’s top returning performers in each event.
Moore was crowned the 2014 Big 12 Indoor Champion in the 60-meter hurdles with a winning run of 7.86 in the final at the conference meet held at Iowa State’s Leid Recreation Center in Ames. He followed by earning an 11th-place finish in the national semifinal at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships at New Mexico’s Albuquerque Convention Center.
His personal best of 7.70 in the event was set in a runner-up finish at the Tyson Invitational to earn a debut appearance at the NCAA Championships as one of the NCAA’s Top 10 hurdlers in the regular season.
Moore followed with an outstanding outdoor season in 2014 in which he completed the conference sweep as the Big 12 Outdoor Champion in the 110-meter hurdles. After having a career-best wind-aided run of 13.64 (+3.9) in the conference final, he clocked a wind-legal personal best of 13.72 (+1.9) in a ninth-place finish overall in the national quarterfinal at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds at Arkansas’ John McDonnell Field.
Moore’s 2014 season came to an end at Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene with a 12th-place finish nationally in the semifinal round of the 110 hurdles at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Moore originally signed a football scholarship with TCU following a heralded prep career at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School for which he was a four-star rated recruit as the No. 15-ranked safety prospect nationally by ESPN. He was also a three-time Georgia state champion and former USA Junior bronze medalist in the 110 hurdles during his high school career.