Boy and girl meet. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy wins Canadian Football League championship, while girl delivers an All-Summit League First Team season. Boy proposes to girl.
"[The proposal] wasn't a surprise to anyone, including her," the boy laughed. "I asked her if she wanted to take a walk, which we do all the time, right by this beautiful lake, and that's where I proposed. We both love nature a lot, and it was a perfect, clear day."
"I knew it was coming, but I still immediately started bawling," she added. "He was joking afterward, 'I don't even know if you said yes?' I was like, 'Of course, I did. You probably just didn't understand me.'"
*curtains open and there stands Olivia Kaufmann and Sean McGuire* 
Fans of Western Illinois Athletics will fondly remember the two. Their names rang throughout Western Hall and Hanson Field and will sit in WIU record books for years to come.
Just a few months ago, Kaufmann wrapped an esteemed women's basketball career as the 19th Leatherneck in program history to score 1,000 career points. She is a Summit League Tournament champion and former team captain.
Her future husband graduated from Western Illinois a year prior, and many have made the case that McGuire is the best quarterback in the 117-history of Leatherneck football. He is the program's all-time leader in nearly every passing category, including career records in passing yards (9,819), completions (772), and touchdowns (72).
Talk about a power couple.
As student-athletes, the two would often cross paths around campus, but never exchanged more than casual hellos. It wasn't until Kaufmann's sophomore year in 2017 that a relationship began to take wing.
"I wanted to know her," McGuire said. "I will take the credit for initiating the relationship, and will stand by that until the day that I die. I asked Taylor [Higginbotham, Olivia's former WIU teammate] to put in a good word for me, and within a day, one of my friends reached out and was like, 'Yeah, Olivia wants you to reach out to her and get to know her.' I was like, 'Shut up. You're going to make me look like an idiot.'"
"His friend Brody kept telling me that too," Olivia added. "He just kept saying, 'Sean doesn't believe me. He thinks I'm messing with him.'"
Nothing screams love, or at least Kaufmann and McGuire's love, like a scary movie, sports, and the good ole outdoors. They went to the Rialto Theater for their first date and have been inseparable since that 2017 showing of the movie It.
Macomb became their nest until McGuire was forced to leave it in 2019. She was set to embark on her senior season, and he was preparing for his rookie year in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
"That was definitely a big adjustment after being at Western together for so long, but nowadays, with FaceTime and phone calls, we still talked every single day," she said. "It was just awesome to be a part of his CFL career, following that, and watching his games. I was also able to visit him in Canada once, which was my first time leaving the country, and that was a lot of fun.
"It was an adjustment at first, but we knew all along that that day would come, and it wasn't something we didn't think we couldn't handle."
The year apart captured several career milestones like Kaufmann's five double-doubles and a career-high 30-point night and McGuire's National Football League (NFL) camp invites and CFL Grey Cup title.
"We mesh so well together because we're both passionate about what we do. I always loved watching her play basketball," he said. "It would fire me up and give me chills and make me want to go out and compete. She's this passionate in everything and gives everything she's doing 100 percent."
"Sean is probably the most dedicated person that I've ever met and ever been around," said Kaufmann.
COVID-19 has the world at a standstill, but the young couple is excited to enter this next phase of their life -- together. The waiting game affects where they'll plant roots -- McGuire has a year left on his current CFL contract -- but in the meantime there's a wedding to be planned. That's if they don't throw on a pair of sweatpants and head to the courthouse first.
Boy and girl marry and live happily ever after.
