Cooper and Brett met the summer before their senior year of high school. They both attended the Naval Academy's summer leadership program and were in the same squad. Although they were in the same group, Cooper and Brett did not speak to each other much during the 10 day camp. The entire squad kept in touch and occasionally chatted over social media. Fast forward 5 years (2021), Cooper reached out to Brett to wish her a happy 22nd birthday. They began chatting and facetiming almost every night (she was finishing school at Cal Poly, he was living in Virginia at TBS) and started dating shortly therafter. Cooper proposed April 8th, 2023 - the morning he was helping her move out of her Dallas apartment to live with him in Pensacola.