OL Tim Moxley (official thread)

[Buckskin86]

Tim Moxley
(Barnesville High School, Class of 1985.) A heavyweight in every sense of the word. Tim Moxley is certainly that. Moxley came up huge in both football and wrestling for the Shamrocks. He enjoyed a star-studded and champion-filled four athletic years at the western Belmont County school.

Moxley garnered all-Ohio honors in football for the Red & Green while also grabbing a pair of state wrestling championships. The 6 ft. 7, 300-pounder parlayed his prep achievements into a football scholarship at The Ohio State University.

Moxley was a three-year starter on the Shamrocks? line. He helped guide the Red & Green to a 17-3 mark over his last two seasons and the OVAC championship in 1983.
He was accorded a bevy of first team all-star honors for his senior season play. They included all-Valley, all-OVAC, all-Eastern District and all-Ohio by The Associated Press. He was a second-team all-Ohio United Press International honoree As a junior, Moxley was a second-team all-Valley selection.

Moxley carved out an even more glittering prep resume in the mat sport. The powerful heavyweight captured a pair of Ohio state championships, matching the number of OVAC crowns to his credit. As a senior, he led the Shamrock grapplers to the overall OVAC Tournament title while also being accorded the prestigious Bierkortte Award. Moreover, the Moxley-led matmen of Coach Darrell Davis captured the state tournament team title in 1985. His OVAC title matches against Steubenville?s Charlie Keenan ? also joining this year?s OVAC Hall of Fame induction field ? are legendary. Moxley handed Keenan his only two losses in the OVAC event. Moxley was so impressive on the mat that he was selected to the USA?s Scholastic All-America Wrestling ?Dream Team? for 1984-85. He was third in the OVAC as a sophomore.

At Ohio State, Moxley was all football. He moved into the Buckeyes? starting lineup as a sophomore, after seeing playing time in all 13 games as a red-shirt freshman. He started seven out of the Bucks? final eight games as a sophomore.
As a junior, he started all 11 games and continued that strong play as a senior. He played in two bowl games for Ohio State ? the 1987 Cotton Bowl and the 1990 Hall of Fame Bowl. Moxley was selected by the Washington Redskins in the ninth round of the 1990 NFL Draft.

http://www.ovac.org/HallOfFame/Details/122

In 1987, Ohio State football fan beat long odds
Heart attack nearly killed player?s dad at Michigan game
By Rob Oller
The Columbus Dispatch Friday November 25, 2011

MOXLEY FAMILY PHOTO Tim Moxley, left, seen during his playing days at Ohio State with his mom, Janyce, and dad, Wendell

Ohio State vs. Michigan can be more than a game.

One year, it became life and death.

Flat on his back, his face as gray as the pants on the Ohio State players standing 30 yards away, Wendell ?Buck? Moxley was on his way to heaven. Or, as he later worried, to hell. Either way, his trip to that final destination was about to make a U-turn.

Moxley was a goner. Not officially deceased but close enough that when paramedics carted him out of Michigan Stadium during the 1987 Ohio State-Michigan game, one said, ?The poor bastard is dead.?

Tim Moxley, a sophomore offensive tackle for Ohio State that year, heard those words as the heart-attack patient passed him.

Then he noticed a telltale brace on the shoe of the lifeless form.

?That?s my dad,? said the son, who was playing his best game before watching emergency personnel transport his 56-year-old father up a ramp and out of the Big House early in the third quarter.

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2011/11/25/in-1987-osu-fan-beat-long-odds.html

 

[FrancisSoyer]

Good story. I graduated from the same high school as Tim and had never heard it. Nice to know that he's doing well and made something of himself after football.