Our story begins on the first day of school in 2016 in high school math class. By way of mutual friends, we ended up sitting at the same table on the first day of school. Over the next few months we started to develop a friendship that gradually transitioned from math tutoring (him helping her) to young love. We started dating in March of 2017.

In the fall of 2018, Sydney left for her first semester at the University of Maryland, College Park while I (Ricky) was finishing up my senior year of high school. A year later I started my first semester at UMBC in Baltimore. Throughout college, we continued to strengthen our relationship. Being Division 1 student-athletes both pursuing difficult degrees, we were certainly challenged as a couple, but we are so grateful for how close these years brought us.

Sydney graduated in the spring of 2022 and accepted a remote job with Northrop Grumman later that fall. After my graduation from UMBC in the spring of 2023 , I decided to pursue a masters degree at The Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida while playing lacrosse.

I left for Florida in August of 2023. With Sydney working from home in Maryland, we were suddenly 950 miles apart, however, 2 weeks after moving to Florida I flew up to Maryland and pulled off a surprise proposal at a local winery (surprise pictured above). On September 3rd, 2023 she agreed to spend forever with me and we are so excited be making it official on August 3rd, 2024!

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