Anne & Eric 

We officially met at an intramural summer volleyball game through the Catholic young adult group in Kansas City in 2019. Our mutual friend, Henry, had been a coach for many of the Catholic sports groups and had chosen Eric to be on his team that summer.

 

Eric had been in Kansas City a short time, and was wanting to meet other Catholics. Anne was nervous to try sports again, but wanted to get more involved after finally moving to Kansas City. Anne was asked to sub for another team at the first game of the season, but knew that Henry had the only team color that was pink. Eric was watching the games with his pink team shirt on, and he caught Anne’s attention immediately. She knew that he was part of Henry’s team and walked up and started a conversation with him to get to know him better.

 

A few weeks later, Anne ended up asking Eric to go out to her favorite country dancing bar, and he said "YES"! Eric had no idea what he was getting into, especially when his other friends weren’t going. They danced together several times, and at the end of the night, Eric walked her out to her car, and they got each other’s numbers. 

 

One week later, Eric asked Anne on an official date to Messenger Coffee. During that date, they walked around downtown Kansas City for several hours, found the Packers vs. Vikings game, went to a soda shop, got sunburned, and they realized they still didn’t want the date to end. During that week, they grew closer and Eric asked Anne to be his girlfriend on September 22nd, 2019!