Billie Moore, the first U.S. women’s Olympic basketball coach, dies at 79

Billie Moore, center, who coached the first U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team to a silver medal at the Montreal Games in 1976, has died. She was 79. She is standing with other members of the 1999 Basketball Hall of Fame class. (Charles Krupa/AP)

LOS ANGELES — Billie Moore, who coached the first U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team to a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Games, has died. She was 79.

UCLA, where Moore was the women’s head coach from 1977-93, announced Thursday that she died from cancer at home Wednesday night in Fullerton, California, surrounded by family and friends.