With Valentine’s Day now here, there’s few things that highlight the season in Lexington more than a love story from two members of some of Kentucky’s most popular athletic teams.
Newly engaged mens basketball guard CJ Fredrick and womens basketball guard Blair Green captured Big Blue Nation’s hearts with their endearing relationship that culminated in a ring to finish out 2021.
What started as group hangouts with the basketball team evolved into frequent walks together and competitive one-on-one basketball games and, soon enough, Green found herself saying yes to a kneeling Fredrick in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, over the holidays.
That said, before their engagement story could come to be, several months of building a special friendship that would be pivotal in getting the couple through one of the most challenging periods of their athletics careers had to take place.