Luke Gore enters the 2011-2012 season in his tenth season with the Valpo basketball program.  Gore is in his second stint as a full-time assistant coach.

In his current role, Gore works with player development, with an emphasis on post play.  Over his first nine years, Gore has guided seven all-conference post players and ten post players who have gone on to professional basketball careers overseas.  Gore also works as director of Valpo’s summer basketball camps and is responsible for future game scheduling.

He also serves as recruiting coordinator, helping to sign recruiting classes ranked as high as 27th in the nation.  Gore helped signed the top incoming class in the Horizon League entering the 2009-2010 season according to The Sporting News.  He has recruited and coached players from all around the world during his time at Valpo, including players from Angola, Australia, Columbia, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Jamaica, Latvia, Mali, Montenegro, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and Senegal.

In his nine years with the Crusaders, Valpo has made trips to the NCAA Tournament, the NIT, the inaugural CBI and, most recently, the CIT.  Over his tenure, the Crusaders have won 155 games, captured two Mid-Continent Conference regular season titles, and won one Mid-Con tournament title.  Last season, Gore helped guide Valpo as it won 23 games, finishing just one game out of the Horizon League regular season title.

During the summer of 2008, Gore served as head coach for an Athletes in Action squad that traveled to West Africa.  The team went 5-0 in games against African national teams, and spent time visiting orphanages and conducting coaching clinics throughout Mali and Senegal.

Before arriving at Valparaiso, Gore spent the 2001-2002 school year as an intern in the Fitness/Recreation Department at the University of Notre Dame.  The next year, 2002-2003, Gore served as Assistant Director of Intramurals and Campus Recreation at VU while also beginning his tenure as a member of the Crusader basketball staff.

A starting forward at NAIA Bethel College in McKenzie, Tenn. from 1998-2001, Gore earned Academic All-America honors as a senior.  He helped Bethel to the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title during the 1998-99 season after transferring from Cumberland [Tenn.] University where he played his freshman year.

Gore graduated from Bethel in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education and received a Masters of Arts in Sports Administration from Valpo in August of 2006.  Born in Oak Park, Ill., Gore was raised in Paris, Tenn..

Luke and his wife Cheryl currently reside in Valparaiso.