Approaching the summer of my junior year, Coach Jeff Oliver, our strength coach, friend, and mentor, offered me the opportunity to intern at his summer sports performance training camp, Jacked On the Hill. At the time, I was a one track mind - eat, sleep, workout, and do whatever will make me a better football player. I had a desire to coach and considered this opportunity to be once in a lifetime. When I was finishing up my final interview, walking out of his office he asked, “Do you know Kelsey Christensen? Softball player, your class, and she’ll be working alongside you.” I said, no I didnt. “Oh my God, you two are gonna get married!” He replied. Now, knowing Coach to be a bit of a joker, I quickly replied “whoa whoa whoa slow down Ollie,” I think you can say we took it slow to get to this here Wedding, but it was shortly after those first few weeks working alongside Kelsey that I saw the amazing person she is. Intelligent, athletic, and beautiful are the obvious things you see with Kelsey, but its her dedication to service to others, the little ways she can brighten someones day, and her powerful sense of loyalty that ultimately made Coach Ollie right. We spent hours in the front seat of her car parked in front of Okane, sitting in the RA Resource rooms in Mulledy, Alumni, and Williams, even taking that little Ford Focus of her’s (RIP to a real one) on trips all across New England. The more drives we took, the more papers we wrote together, and the more Chicken Nuggets I ate, the more I saw that the coaching opportunity wasn’t once in a lifetime, but that Kelsey was. I saw the things I valued in a person shining brightly. She really, truly, lights up my life. I may have been a little slow to see it at first, but to be fair, when I took the knee, Kelsey was a bit slow to realize what was happening too 😉