Ex-Michigan staffer Paige Shiver says coaches knew of her relationship with fired head coach Sherrone Moore

Nick BrombergFri, April 24, 2026 at 1:57 PM UTC

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Former Michigan staffer Paige Shiver said that other Wolverines coaches were aware of her relationship with former football head coach Sherrone Moore and that the two had been together for years.

In an interview with “Good Morning America,” Shiver said that she was tasked with emotionally supporting Moore in the workplace.

She described Moore during this time as emotionally dependent on her, a relationship she said the department encouraged.

She said she was often told by senior coaches to console Moore "to calm him down" when he was upset, sometimes during game halftimes. She said she went along with it because she feared for her job security. "No one cared about my feelings. They wanted to use me to help him so that they could get through the season," she said.

Moore was sentenced to 18 months probation earlier this month for going to Shiver’s house after he was fired by the university for cause in December because of their relationship. After the two had initially denied they were together, Shiver told investigators that she and Moore had been in a relationship.

After athletic director Warde Manuel fired Moore, the coach went to Shiver’s house, where he allegedly threatened to take his own life and blamed Shiver for what had taken place. The probation sentence came after he pled no contest to misdemeanor malicious use of a telecommunications device involving a domestic relationship and misdemeanor trespassing as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

Shiver said that her relationship with Moore began in January of 2022 while he was an assistant coach. Months later, she said that she learned she was pregnant with Moore’s child. But she had an abortion on the advice of medical counsel. Shiver had been previously diagnosed with Pompe Disease, a genetic glycogen storage disorder.

In the interview, Shiver said that Moore knew about her decision to have an abortion.

“Multiple doctors and experts told me that it wouldn’t be right or healthy for me to keep the baby,” a tearful Shiver said, who nodded and said “yeah” when she was asked if she wanted to keep the baby.

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“[Moore] said ‘you had to do what’s right for your body.’”

During Moore’s sentencing, Judge Cedric Simpson praised Moore’s wife Kelli and talked about the “incredible burden” she had been saddled with. Kelli Moore was in attendance during the sentencing. She and Moore have been married since 2015 and have three children together.

In an interview with the Detroit News after Moore’s sentencing, Manuel said that he felt “betrayed” by Moore.

“I felt betrayed,” Manuel said when asked how he felt about the revelation that Moore was having an affair with Shiver. “It’s the best word that I can use. I felt hurt for all the staff and the student-athletes and the university, because it's something that I had talked about, as it related to the expectations of our employees in athletics and for the university. I've talked about it at all-staff meetings, off of the Martin Philbert [former UM provost fired for sexual misconduct], off of the Mark Schlissel [former UM president fired for having an inappropriate relationship with a staff member] situations, and that this was not going to be tolerated by me or the university, and I thought I was very clear about my expectations and about the outcomes if something like that would happen. I had known Sherrone since he got here (2018 when he was hired as an assistant coach), believed in him as a leader, believed that my staff is doing things the right way, and I felt hurt, and I felt betrayed by it. It was personal, but it was also, I want to emphasize, for so many people that were affected by it. And it's hard as a leader to have to enforce discipline on people that you care about and that you believe in, but it has to be done. There are a lot of people who claim to be callous, who say, ‘Oh, you should have fired him when the rumor was there.’ But you can't just fire people on rumors with no evidence. So when the evidence was presented, it was a sense of betrayal and hurt for everybody who was going to be involved with a decision. Players, coaches, their families. Everybody.

Moore served as Michigan’s offensive coordinator for three seasons before taking over as head coach following Jim Harbaugh’s departure to the Los Angeles Chargers after the Wolverines won the College Football Playoff in January of 2024.

Michigan was 8-5 during the 2024 season and went 9-3 in 2025 before Moore was fired. He served a two-game suspension during the 2025 season for his role in the Connor Stalions’ advance-scouting scheme to decipher opponents’ signals.

The school began investigating Moore’s relationship with Shiver during the 2025 season, but the two had denied they were together until she came forward.

After Moore’s firing, Michigan said that it would be investigating the culture of the athletic department amid its myriad scandals. His termination came after former co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss was federally indicted for allegedly hacking into the online accounts of female college athletes across the country, the numerous NCAA infractions during Harbaugh’s tenure and the tumultuous Juwan Howard era for the men’s basketball program.

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