Furman Director of News and Media Relations Vince Moore, who has been a member of the University Communications office since 1982, and Professor of Health Sciences William J. “Bill” Pierce, who joined the Furman faculty in 1983,\u00a0have been named to the All-Southern Conference Faculty and Staff Team.<\/p>\n
Moore is responsible for communicating with the local, regional and national media while overseeing the Furman News<\/a> page. He also contributes to Furman Magazine and has served as the official scorekeeper for the men’s basketball team<\/a>\u00a0for 35 years.<\/p>\n Before coming to Furman, Moore was a sportswriter for the Greenville Piedmont and Anderson Independent-Mail, where he was the golf writer and covered teams in the ACC, SEC and Southern Conference<\/a>.\u00a0He is a graduate of Georgetown College in Kentucky and received a master\u2019s in mass communication from the University of South Carolina.<\/p>\n Pierce<\/a> chaired the health sciences department<\/a> for three decades. Lead author of two books\u2014 “Runner’s World Run Less, Run Faster: Become a Faster, Stronger Runner with the Revolutionary FIRST Training Program<\/a>”\u00a0and “Runner’s World Train Smart, Run Forever: How to Become a Fit and Healthy Lifelong Runner by Following The Innovative 7-Hour Workout Week”<\/a>\u2014Pierce led curricular changes to the health science department’s present emphasis on wellness and health sciences.<\/p>\n Co-founder of the Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training (FIRST<\/a>), Pierce was listed<\/a> as one of 10 marathon \u201csupercoaches\u201d by Runner\u2019s World magazine and is a co-founder of community-wide health promotion programs Greenville Walks, Get Fit Greenville and Activate Greenville that preceded the present coalition, LiveWell Greenville<\/a>. He serves as Furman\u2019s faculty athletics representative and is a past president of the Southern Conference.<\/p>\n Moore and Pierce will be presented with a plaque and honored at a home basketball game later this season.<\/p>\n Selections were left up to each school’s discretion, and all 10 league member institutions were represented by two people each on the All-Southern Conference Faculty and Staff Team. For a complete listing and more information, visit FurmanPaladins.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Furman Director of News and Media Relations Vince Moore, who has been a member of the University Communications office since 1982, and Professor of Health Sciences William J. “Bill” Pierce, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24,21,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-athletics","category-health-sciences","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}