Shooting for the Moon: Tar Heels middleweight makes final season worth it

Posted Mar 2, 2017
Joey Moon never lacks for a sense of humor or a good laugh. In many ways, he might have been missing self-assuredness. And it wasn’t until his final collegiate wrestling season with UNC that he came to conquer some of this. He won a pair of state championships in high school for Southern Alamance, but he said that was a facade to limited confidence. (Burlington Times News)

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