Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

After 27 years as a track and field coach at City High Mike Moore has called it a career.

City High announced that Moore has retired after spending 34 years a teacher and coach in the Iowa City Community School District with a release on Tuesday.

Moore has spent the last 11 seasons as the heady boys track and field coach at City High.

“Coach Moore is a Little Hawk through and through,” City High Athletic Director Phil Lala said in the release. “His passion for City High and his dedication to the young people he has taught and coached is second to none. City High would like to thank Coach Moore for his many years of service to our school and community. We wish Coach Moore and his family nothing but the best in retirement.”

A 1986 City High graduate, Moore spent 27 seasons in the track and field program at City High.

During that time City High won 11 Mississippi Valley Conference championships and five Class 4A state titles.

Moore and his staff were named State Coaches of the Year At-Large in 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

“It has been an honor and a privilege to be a student athlete, teacher and coach in the Little Hawk community over the many years,” Moore said. “I am humbled to have been around so many great people and to have had the opportunity to shape so many different lives. It is always a great day to be a Little Hawk.”

Moore directed City High to three consecutive top-six finishes at the 4AA state meet from 2021 – 2023

City High was runner-up in 2022 and finished third in Class 4A in 2023.

A search for a head coach will begin immediately.

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