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So…

Every high school has one, don’t you think?  The perfect teacher couple.  The Mr. & Mrs. who show up at everything.  Well, it’s time to add  D’Evelyn High School to the mix.

It’s finally official, football coach Jeremy Bennett and Jaguars volleyball coach, Valerie Battaglia are now “Mr. & Mrs. D’Evelyn”.  The whirlwind romance was a school affair right from the start.   

Their very first date was a school dance.  Then, with the entire student body in on the surprise, Bennett dropped to one knee and proposed at halftime of a football game last fall.  The happy couple was disappointed when Jefferson County school rules forbid them from holding the wedding in the gym as planned, but, once they moved the ceremony to a nearby park, the students still turned out in droves.

Mother-of-the-bride Judy Battaglia describes the ceremony’s only glitch, this way.  “One of Valerie’s attendants had an unexpected make up tennis match that afternoon, and was late arriving.  She had dressed in the car, slipped into her high heels, and started running across the park only to encounter a split rail fence.  At which point she hiked up her skirt and jumped it.  Once an athlete always an athlete!”  Just ten minutes behind schedule, the bride walked down the aisle with the the band and the school’s fight song, along with the Jaguar chant, ringing in her ears.