Former Michigan Coach Sherrone Moore Sentenced After Allegedly Breaking into Former Staffer's Apartment and Threatening Her with Knives

Sherrone Moore arrives in court with with his wife Kelli Moore, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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NEED TO KNOW

• Former Michigan Coach Sherrone Moore has been sentenced after pleading no contest to two misdemeanors: malicious use of a telecommunications device and trespass, on March 6
• The misdemeanor charges sprung from an incident in which Moore allegedly confronted his former assistant Paige Shiver after she reported their "inappropriate relationship" to University of Michigan admin, which led to him being fired in December 2025
• Shiver reacted to the sentencing, telling ESPN it "does not reflect the harm done to me"

A month after pleading no contest to two misdemeanors, former Michigan Coach Sherrone Moore has been sentenced to 18 months' probation, and was fined over $1,000.

Moore, 40, was also prohibited from using drugs or alcohol, possessing firearms, or contacting his former assistant Paige Shiver, who he allegedly had an "inappropriate relationship" with, according to the University of Michigan, which fired Moore in December. He is also expected to continue attending "counseling" sessions, per ESPN.

The former coach faced up to six months in prison after he previously pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors: malicious use of a telecommunications device and trespass, on March 6. He was sentenced on Tuesday, April 14.

"I don't believe, when I look at the entirety of this situation, that incarceration should be appropriate," District Court Judge Cedric Simpson said during Tuesday's sentencing in Washtenaw County Court, according to ESPN. "I warn you, Mr. Moore, should there be a violation, all bets are off. I don't like sending people to jail, but I don't have a problem doing it."

"Frankly, Mr. Moore, you had no right to do what you did," Judge Simpson said of the alleged incident that occurred at Moore's former assistant Paige Shiver's home. "I know she was placed in fear. It was a traumatic experience for you -- it was certainly a traumatic experience for her -- but you had no right to spread your pain to her."

The former Michigan coach's additional charges, including a felony home invasion that came with a five-year prison sentence if convicted, were dismissed as part of his plea agreement prior to sentencing.

"The person who is saving you from the full wrath of this court is the person who you betrayed," Judge said in reference to Moore's wife Kelli, who was present for the sentencing, per ESPN. "When all of the circumstances are happening to her, and she is absorbing them in real time, she not once loses her focus, not once bats an eye to doubt you, not once wants something terrible to happen to you."

"As I listened to the terror in her voice that day, I don't think there would be anybody in the world who would have blamed her from saying, 'I am done here," Judge Simpson continued, per ESPN.

"This is a man who is not defined by this moment but how he has responded to it," Moore's attorney Ellen Michaels said in court, per ESPN.

Shiver, 32, who previously alleged that she faced years of “manipulation, harassment, and exploitation,” released a statement to ESPN amid his sentencing. Her statement claimed that the sentence "does not reflect the harm done to me."

Sherrone Moore's arraignment
Credit: 14A-2 District Court

"He broke into my apartment, crying, yelling, enraged, and came at me with knives," Shiver said in the statement. "I was threatened, and I feared for my life."

In an earlier statement to PEOPLE, on March 6, Shiver's legal team, Action Injury Law Group, claimed Moore “held enormous power over her professional life as the head football coach of one of the nation’s most prominent college football programs."

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"The power imbalance between a powerful head coach and a subordinate employee created an environment where our client felt pressured, intimidated, and unable to escape conduct that should never occur in any workplace—let alone at a public university," the statement continued at the time.

Following his December 2025 firing, Moore was later accused of driving to the staffer's home, grabbing butter knives and threatening suicide. He was arraigned and charged with third-degree home invasion, stalking and entering without permission, which were dismissed as part of the plea deal.

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