Purpose: This study tested the moderating effects of perceived control and cognitive appraisals in the relationships between goal orientation and emotions among athletes in the pre-competition setting. Methods: Participants included 473 high school athletes (318 males, 155 females). Data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis, correlation, and moderated regression analysis. Results: Results of regression analyses showed that athletes' mastery-approach goal, perceived control, and cognitive appraisals positively predicted positive emotions, while the two mastery-approach/mastery-avoidance goals and cognitive appraisals predicted negative emotion positively or negatively. In addition, results indicated that athletes' perception of control to a pre-competition situation moderated the effects of mastery-approach, performance -approach, and performance-avoidance goals on positive emotions, whereas athletes' perceived control and cognitive appraisals moderated the effects of mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, and performanceapproach goals on negative emotions, respectfully. Conclusion: These findings suggest that athletes with high approach-goal orientation will be supposed to experience positive emotions as perceived high controllability in the competition setting, but the level of athletes' perception of control and cognitive appraisals to stressful events would be able to moderate the effects of goal orientations on negative emotions.