Mentally Tough Patrice Rene Enjoying Leadership Role
Posted Aug 12, 2019
North Carolina opened the 2016 football season versus Georgia in Atlanta and Patrice Rene played a key role in the game’s outcome, getting flagged twice in a momentum-changing third quarter leading to a Tar Heels’ defeat. Perhaps they were bum calls, but that’s ancient history, and now as a senior, Rene is a different player. He’s a man now.
(Tar Heel Illustrated)
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