Former UNC student body president is contestant on CBS show 'The Amazing Race'

Posted Oct 2, 2011
The brother-sister duo of Justin and Jennifer Young is one of 11 two-member teams who spent the summer competing in the Emmy award winning show, which airs at 8 p.m. Sundays. "They are go-getters. When they decide the want to do something, they pursue it," Reuben Young said. Justin Young earned his medical degree after serving as student-body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (WRAL.com)

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