Name: Chris Moore
Hometown: Cary, N.C.
Year: 2013
Major: Journalism: Reporting
Favorite Coldstone/Yopo Flavor: Sweet Frog (Cake Batter)
Where do you study Davis/UL/other: 1st floor Davis or the business school.
Fun Fact: Chris is red/green colorblind.
Junior Chris Moore says his motto is to, “live life for the stories.”
Whether he is coaching a group of unruly eight year olds to a championship basketball win (he coached basketball for a Carrboro team last winter), or joking that being colorblind is okay because he can still see pastels, Chris always tries to see the sunny side of things.
Chris, a junior reporting major at UNC, also literally lives for the stories: he is an assistant sports editor at The Daily Tar Heel and has been a staff writer since his freshman year. He also writes for other sports publications, including insidelacrosse.com.
In addition to working for the DTH, Chris is a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. His favorite memories of UNC are of sunny spring afternoons on his house’s front porch, listening to music and hanging out with his friends.
Chris said he always knew he wanted to go to a large public school, and UNC offered the perfect balance of academics and social life. The School of Journalism and Mass Communication, number five in the nation, clinched his decision to attend the University.
Chris, who played football growing up, said he has loved sports since childhood. Ten years from now he sees himself being a sportswriter for a newspaper somewhere.
Despite the fragile state of journalism, Chris said he wants to be a writer because he loves when he is writing a good story. At the end of the day, he wants to love what he does, more than the salary that comes with it.
It was that same attitude that led him to work at Victory Junction this summer, a camp for children with serious illnesses and disabilities.
His favorite part of the experience, he said, was letting them be normal kids for a week.
“It was really challenging and tiring, but it was also really rewarding,” he said. “It was one of those things that you don’t think about how tired you are until you crash.
“The kids are really honest, unfiltered, pure. They are just really fun. I just like to help them have fun while they are still kids.”
All photos provided by Chris Moore