Rachel and Evan met each other for the very first time in the fall of 2020 at the McCallie School pool. Rachel was a sophomore at UTC at the time and Evan had just transferred back to UTC to start his junior year. Both started working at the McCallie School as swimming coaches for the the McCallie/GPS swimming team and later were teammates on the UTC club swimming team. They stayed teammates/coworkers for about a year before starting to talk outside of work and school. They made it official in the fall of 2021 and have been inseparable ever since!