Jake & I met at Passion, a Christian conference in Houston, during the winter break of my sophomore year at UT and Jake's first off season with the New York Mets. The college ministries of both of our churches went together but seeing as we didn't got to college in Galveston, we each didn't know many people there. Luckily, we had a mutual friend who introduced us- it's actually crazy we'd never really met or talked before since Galveston is such a small town and we had TONS of mutual friends... The rest is history! I dated Jake throughout the rest of my time at UT; we managed a long distance relationship across the country (thanks baseball!) for almost three years!