Arden Hawley met Alex Richter in August 2015 after her roommate joined KMNR, where he was a DJ. “She introduced us and Alex gave us a tour of the station,” she says. The couple started dating that fall and got engaged in December 2020. As students, one of their favorite activities was the annual KMNR…
Katie (Fritts) and Mitchell Niehoff met in fall 2006 during that semester’s first meeting of the Perfect 10 Improv group. “Perfect 10 Improv was such a great way to exercise creativity and socialize,” she says. “Over the years, it was often a joke from the audience that he was ‘proposing’ … until five years later…
Even though as students, Teresa (Schneider) and Samuel Vohsen spent many hours in McNutt Hall as ceramic engineering and geology and geophysics majors, they didn’t actually meet until Sept. 27, 2018, after they matched on Coffee Meets Bagel, an app for people looking for committed relationships. “We really hit it off while sitting at the…
When Sarah (Lewey) and Leslie “Les” McDaniel met in 2013 at a local bar called the Grotto, it was all thanks to mutual alumni friends. “He schooled me in pool, and I stole his beer and his heart,” she recalls of that night. The first two years of their relationship was long distance, as Les…
Kayla Klossner-Thompson and Cole Thompson attended the same high school, but their friendship didn’t start until they met at S&T in 2013. “Our friend groups just didn’t overlap,” she says. “He was the drum major and I was a cheerleader.” That all changed inside the Humanities and Social Sciences Building, where Cole had a class…
When Abby (LaPreze) and Jeremy Morris first met as members of the 2007 Chancellor’s Leadership Academy (CLA), they didn’t realize that they actually lived next door to each other. Jeremy lived in the Sigma Pi Fraternity house and Abby lived in the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority House on 12th Street. “He was one of the…
Kaitlyn Loucks and Jacob Bellomy met each other at a fraternity party while she was home from co-op one weekend in September 2018. “He struck up a conversation with me after his buddy pointed me out and said, ‘Hey she’s cute, go talk to her’,” she says. “We went on a date the next day,…
Kala Longman and Maxwell Rose met in 2015 thanks to mutual campus interests and a similar friend group. But it took them until December 2016 to have a conversation that was just between the two of them. “The Christmas break of 2016 was filled with snow and shenanigans, and the rest ended up history between…
Jessica (Kressig) and Daniel Cannon met in September 2011 after she took a dare at a party to dance with him. A friend of one of her friends, Daniel was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. And as it turned out, they were next-door neighbors because she was a member of Chi Omega sorority. “We…
Tabitha (Fiske) and Brian Locke met in December 2009 when she dropped by a friend’s room to get help with Excel. “Brian was over there and ended up being the one that figured it out before even learning my name,” she says. “After that we studied together and hung out together with our group of…