Brittney Griner and Cherelle Griner are (sort of) college sweethearts. The two met while they were both studying at Baylor University between 2010 and 2014, but didn’t start dating until after Brittney’s first marriage to fellow WNBA player, Glory Johnson, ended in 2016. Griner then proposed to Cherelle in 2018. Even though they didn’t start dating in college, Griner remembers their first meeting perfectly. She posted in 2020 on Instagram about that day, which she’ll “never forget.”
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While at Baylor, Cherelle majored in political science and government and minored in family and child studies. According to her LinkedIn profile, Cherelle went on to become a teacher. But in May 2022, she graduated from the North Carolina Central University of Law and now wants to use that degree, and her experience with Brittney’s detainment, to better the world. “I realized how voiceless the issue is,” she told People, continuing, “I was 29 when Brittney was detained, and that’s when I found out that it was even a real thing. That shouldn’t be the case. I should have known about that before, which means we need more voices around this issue. My story came full circle. But there’s so many other Americans, their story is not full circle. And so it’s changed everything about what I thought I was going to do career-wise.”
