Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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PUMP UP THE VOLUME quietly become Notre Dame's most improved player Booming voice and all, Kapron Lewis-Moore has ing for three hours of tedious training when the temperature starts to plum- met. Kapron Lewis-Moore makes it a little bit easier. Defensive coordinator Bob Diaco T refers to it as filling up your energy bucket. Players rely on each other to provide the enthusiasm they need to work hard. Whether it's telling jokes and singing in booming bass or busting out dance moves that have received seriously mixed reviews, Lewis-Moore is their well — an energy oasis unmatched in the Irish locker room. "He's loud even when he tries to BY DAN MURPHY he subwoofer of a voice box cuts across the Notre Dame practice fields on an almost daily basis. It's hard to get the blood pump- definitely going to catch our attention, but then you add his obnoxious, loud voice and you're definitely going to be looking at him. "Once he starts jumping around and things like that, everyone starts to get going." And so begin most afternoons on the South Bend campus this fall. Notre Dame's oldest captain is a 310-pound walking contradiction. The story of the silent warrior who roars into the spot- light during games is a time-honored football archetype. Lewis-Moore is the opposite. He's got the beard presence of Houston Rockets star James Harden and the stage presence of the "Godfa- ther of Soul" James Brown, but when he's done singing, he's happy to be unsung. The veteran defensive end has never whisper," senior running back Theo Riddick said. "He tries to dance. And he's not that great of a dancer. That's been the centerpiece of the Irish front line. Classmates surged ahead of him while he filled out what was once a 225-pound frame. When he made