Cara and Jeff met as Razor's Edge Leadership Scholarship hopefuls at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) on January 26, 2013 in the very room where Jeff would propose eight years later. Ironically, Jeff was the first person Cara saw upon arriving at the NSU parking lot that day. The two talked a bit during the weekend, but Cara was very focused on the scholarship and didn't socialize that much...as Jeff says, "she was so mysterious." It didn't matter because Jeff was smitten as soon as they met, so much so that he wanted to ask her to his senior year prom. That did not happen because the Paszternaks knew the Brueggemans would not allow their daughter to go to a stranger's prom in Illinois. Seven months later, they became neighbors! One month later, they started dating and the rest is history. Not only did they win the scholarships, but they won at love!