While both athletes in college, our coaches required us to go to the school's church service on the first Sunday of pre-season. I walked in late to the service and sat two rows in front of Joel. He noticed I was new to the school and kept my face in mind over the next few days. Joel was an RA for his dorm and his RD, Lauren, knew me from the church I went to when I was younger. She decided Joel and I would be a good match and showed him a picture of me to see if he would be interested. He quickly realized I was the girl he saw in church the previous Sunday and was anxious to meet me. She asked both of us to come over with some other friends for a movie night on August 17, 2017. Without knowing who these other people were or that it was a set-up, I agreed to come over. I brought one of my teammates with me and, because she and I knew nothing of the set-up, we started a conversation about a different guy from the school that some of my teammates were trying to set me up with. Of course, Joel heard this news and knew this other guy we were talking about, so he lost hope of us being together. However, after he left that night, Lauren informed me of the reason I was there and I felt terrible and expressed to her that I did think he was ADORABLE and though I had never dated before and didn't intend to find someone (THE one) on my first week at a new college, I was all for pursuing him further. It took a little while to express those feelings for each other, but a month later our school had to evacuate for a hurricane and we both went to my family's condo in Ormond Beach, Florida. We took long walks on the beach, stayed up late sharing stories about our childhood, held hands for the very first time and the rest...is history.