Devon Moore

Bio

2021: Moore returend two kicks for 94 yards against West Georgia before breaking his collar bone and sitting out the rest of the season.  

2020: Competed in outdoor track and field, did not play in the UVA Wise game during Carson-Newman's spring season. 

2019: On the football field, Moore caught two passes for 31 yards, ran the ball twice for 21 yards and a score and returned seven kicks for 238 yards and a score.  Moore returned his first kick of the season 93 yards for a score against Catawba (10/12). He took a reverse 20 yards to the house against Tusculum (11/16). On the track, in a season shortened due to a pandemic, the United State Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Indoor Field Athlete (USTFCCCA) announced Indoor All-Americans Tuesday with Devon Moore posting honors in the 60 and 200. The organization awarded all student-athletes on the startlist for individual events All-American status with no distinction for first team or second team laurels. Combining indoor and outdoor tallies, Carson-Newman's track program has produced 26 All-Americans, 13 from indoor, since the 2015 season. Moore passes 2018 National Champion Tanner Stepp, three, for the most indoor career All-American plaudits bringing his career tally to four with first-team honors in the 60 in 2018 and 2019. The Baxley, Ga. native ties Stepp for the most All-Americans combining indoor and outdoor season bringing his career tally to six as the junior will have chance in 2021 to establish the program's new benchmark. In 2019-20, he entered the postseason field with the fourth-fastest time in the country in the 60 using his 6.69, his career best, at the Finn Pincus Invitational on Jan. 24, 2020. Looking at the 200, he entered the championships with the 10th best time in the country posting a spring-best of 21:24 at the VMI Indoor Classic on Feb. 14, 2020. He took home South Atlantic Conference titles in both events in 2020. Moore was named the SAC's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year in 2020 after earning the outdoor honor in 2019. The junior was named the SAC Indoor Track Athlete of the Week three times this season tallying the program's first Indoor USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week on Jan. 14. He earned the same honor during outdoor season in 2019. The Baxley, Ga. native registered a mark of 6.71 seconds in the 60, the second-fastest time in the sprint among all Division II athletes at the time. It came during Moore's first event after rejoining the team after the conclusion of the football season in the ETSU Invitational. Moore won two SAC titles in the indoor season besting Lenoir-Rhyne's PJ Lotharp in the 60 by with a 6.76 time. He shaved over a half second off of his preliminary run in the 200 meters to topple Tusculum's Widchard Guervil with a time of 21.73.

2018: Carson-Newman's second-leading receiver in his sophomore year.  He caught nine passes for 152 yards and a touchdown.  Moore averaged 16.9 yards per catch and 16.9 yards per game.  he caught multiple passes against Virginia Union (9/8), at Tusculum (10/27) and against Lenoir-Rhyne (11/3). His most productive game came against the Bears when he grabbed three passes for 61 yards.  He found the end zone against the Pioneers. A two-sport athlete, Moore smoked the track as a sprinter for Carson-Newman's track and field program. He was named the South Atlantic Conference's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. Moore was a two-time bronze medalist and two-time All-American following his performance at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship Meet in Kingsville, Texas.  He finished third in both the 100 and 200 meter dashes at the event.  His 10.27 in the qualifying round of the 100 registered as the second fastest time of his career and the third fastest time in league history.  He set a new Carson-Newman record time for the 100-meter dash when he posted a 10.12 at the Tennessee Relays. The time also put Moore in the NCAA record books, as the 12^th-fastest 100 all-time.  He was a USTFCCCA All-Region pick and was named All-SAC in both events as well. He was a three-time SAC Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week honoree and was also selected as the USTFCCCA National Track Athlete of the Week on April 17 following his efforts at the Tennessee Relays.

2017: Did not appear in any games on the football gridiron. One of the best sprinters in the South Atlantic Conference. Earned All-America honors in indoor track season in the 60 meters and was named the SAC's Freshman Track Athlete of the Year. 

HIGH SCHOOL: A three-sport athlete, Moore also competed in basketball and track.  He earned all-region first team honors on the football field. 

PERSONAL: The son of Bennie Moore.  He plans to study business at Carson-Newman.