We met at a training facility where we were both seeing the same strength and conditioning coach. Neither of us thought anything of it at the time, it was just somewhere we would see one another throughout the week and casually say “hi." Over time, we became friends and shortly after Dante left to go play professional basketball in the Netherlands. We stayed in touch while he was away, just casually checking in to see how the other was doing or to send goofy social media posts to each other. Dante took Emerson for an ice cream date when he finally moved back home to Indiana, and like they say, "the rest is history."