However, Brittany “started getting a crush on him” more than a year later after an “embarrassing” encounter when Patrick gave her a sweet Valentine’s Day card and a rose. “He just brought it to me as a funny joke, but like I thought it was the cutest thing in the world,” Brittany explained. “Everyone in the cafeteria started chanting, ‘Kiss her! Kiss her! Kiss her!’”

“Then, boom, we just fell in love,” she gushed.

See their full relationship timeline below.

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IN THE BEGINNING …

The young couple has been together for nearly a decade. Funny enough, Brittany wasn’t aware they were both athletes when they began their romance.

“When we started dating, I had no idea he was even good at sports,” the fitness pro explained. “The quarterback had graduated, and I was talking to [Patrick] like, ‘So, who’s going to be our quarterback?’ And he was like, ‘Well I think I’m going to try out.’ I was like, ‘Wait, you play quarterback?’”

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SEPARATE SCHOOLS

By senior year, Patrick “played full-time” as the school’s quarterback and began receiving attention for his skills on the field. “He ended up going to Texas Tech, and that’s when it really hit me, ‘Oh s–t, he might go play professional football,” Brittany said about her ​now-husband. “It was surreal to see him living his dream and seeing him grow as an athlete and as a man in general was just amazing.”

However, Patrick wasn’t the only one whose sports career was skyrocketing. Brittany was a rising star on her high school soccer team and even broke the record for the most hat tricks in a season.

After high school, Brittany went on to play soccer at the University of Texas at Tyler. Patrick attended Texas Tech University, which was 440 miles away from his now-wife’s school.

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BIG MOVES

In 2017, the Kansas City Chiefs drafted Patrick. He was the No. 10 pick.

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ANOTHER ADVENTURE

Meanwhile that same year, Brittany graduated with a kinesiology degree and jetted off to Iceland to play soccer professionally with UMF Afturelding/Fram.

“I realized, you know, that you have to have huge passion if you want to play soccer and that’s what you want your career to be,” Brittany noted. “I found that my passion was in fitness and helping others.” This led her to create her at-home workout program, Brittany Lynne Fitness.