The pair officially started dating that July, just one week before Cole had to leave for a month for football camp. After that seven days together, Sarah drove Cole to campus and dropped him off, only seeing him once for a few hours over the course of the next 28 days.
When he came back, the two dove into the busy schedules of their respective sports at Maryland, but still made the time to make it to as many of each other’s games as possible in College Park.
In December of 2014, a year-and-a-half after the couple started dating, Cole graduated from Maryland and went to New Jersey to begin training for the NFL. For the next two-and-a-half years, as Sarah continued to grow into an All-Big Ten softball star and Cole continued his professional career, the latter would frequent the Amtrak and the Union Station subway to make the trek back to College Park for short visits.
“I definitely became a rewards member wherever I could for all those transportations,” Cole said. “We were committed to seeing each other whenever we could make it work with our schedules.”
When the two couldn’t be together in person, they would begin FaceTiming at about 10 pm each night, stay on the call while they both fell asleep, and not hang up until the next morning around 5 am when one of their alarms went off.
“That was the only time we could talk, Sarah said. “We were barely able to even text during the day, we were both just so busy with our different sport schedules.”
“The long-distance was definitely hard, but we made it work and we grew from it in the end,” Cole added.
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