Fairmont State University Athletics

A three-year starter on the Fairmont State football team from 1988-90, Gordon Moon was voted into the Fairmont State Athletics Hall of Fame. The punter from New Cumberland, Pa. was a member of the 1988 WVIAC Championship team and was selected to the All-WVIAC team twice (1989 & 1990). Moon was honored as an NAIA All-American in 1990 after totaling 1,947 yards on 53 punts, including a career-high 65-yard punt. He ranks fifth in Fairmont State history in career punt yards (5,722) and holds the school record for the highest average punt yards in a single game (54.0) vs. Glenville State, 1989. 

Following his football career in Fairmont, Moon served in the United States Army and was deployed to the Middle East five times. He has held several positions in the Army including Mortuary Affairs Officer, Chief of the Quartermaster Advance Course and Inspector General. While on tour in Iraq in 2003, he received the Bronze Star Metal and the Soldier's Medal for Heroism after saving the life of one of his soldiers while under the barrage of shrapnel. Moon is currently the Senior Army Advisor to the Governor of the state of Connecticut.