At the Tokyo Olympics, Katie Moon bagged the gold medal in the Women’s Pole Vault. Going into the 2024 Paris Olympics, she was aiming for similar results. Now, as a two-time Olympian, people are quite curious about her private life. Fans know she is married, but they don’t know much about her husband, Hugo Moon. Here’s all we know about him!
Hugo Moon was born in England and is a well-known figure in the game of rowing due to his numerous accomplishments in the sport. The man is a former college rower, who is now a coach in this sport. Moon used to work as the head coach and director of rowing at Gainesville Area Rowing Inc., where he played a crucial role and organized everything for the new athletes.
Furthermore, his ideas have proven effective in recent years, as he won Head of the Lake and other significant gold in the ACRA National Championships. As of now, he is working as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Tulsa.
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Over the years, he has made quite a lot of progress as a coach.
He coached GAR athletes to numerous titles. This includes district, state, and regional titles, as well as a bronze medal in the Men’s U19 1x at the National Championships (2022). |
At Washington State (2017-19), Moon managed a squad of 25 women and assisted the men’s head coach. He also coached their club team to two second-place finishes at the ACRA National Championships in 2019. This was after coming in third and fifth in 2018. |
He also worked as a graduate assistant at Canford School (2016-17) and the head coach for women’s rowing at Warwick University (2015-16). |
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He earned his bachelor’s from the University of Birmingham (UK) (degree in philosophy, religion and ethics in 2015). There, he managed to coax the club’s 1V8 and 1V4 teams into the British University Championship. Later, he got his master’s degree in sports management from Washington State in 2019.
Well, he surely is accomplished. But what’s the story behind his connection with Katie?
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When and how did Katie Moon and Hugo Moon meet?
Some things are unknown, and famous athletes do like to keep it that way sometimes. While we do not know the entire story of their first date, we can confirm that Huge Moon and Katie Moon met on Tinder while living in Pullman, Washington. They met for the first time in 2018 and began a friendship that quickly evolved into formal dating.
He proposed to her in 2021. “I love you the most Hugo Moon, and I can’t wait to be your stage 5 clinger for the rest of our lives,” she wrote on Instagram, expressing her excitement. Both of them decided to tie the knot in 2022, on New Year’s Eve, and have been living happily ever since.
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The couple has not yet planned for children, but they may do so if they are ready. But they bought a house together.
They both have been dominating their professions, as seen by Katie Moon’s latest inclusion in the 2024 Paris Olympics, which shows how much she has been working on herself. She has become a major celebrity at this moment, and it will be intriguing to watch where her career leads her.
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