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Editor’s Note: ‘Most Limits You Put on Yourself’
Matt Schuman (BA-86) wasn’t supposed to live long enough to see his second birthday.

For 49 years — filled with highlights from being the first poster child for the Colorado Muscular Dystrophy Association to graduating from high school and going on to earn a journalism degree from UNC to covering the Denver Broncos and their Super Bowl wins for the Greeley Tribune — he inspired.

His determination is just one of the reasons the news of his death Aug.

4 came as such a shock.

A former colleague, and honored to be considered a friend, I didn’t fully grasp the magnitude of the lives he touched until the ensuing media coverage.

Then came a memorial service that drew some 400 people — among them head coach Earnest Collins and the entire Bears football team and former Broncos player Steve Watson.

Matt, an award-winning writer, had been covering UNC athletics at the time of his death