Meet The Sweetheart Candidates

Since WPA falls on Valentine’s Day this year, we asked our Sweetheart Candidates some questions to see how sweet they really are. Find out what they had to say here!

J-Room Junkies: Morgan Krakow & Will Oakley
Most awkward dance experience?
Morgan: “I was ironing my dress sophomore year and the sleeves fell off an hour before pictures and I had to buy a new dress.”
Will: “Cotillion. All of them.”

Best love song?
Morgan: Bound 2 by Kanye West
Will: I Wanna Love You by Akon

Colorado Enthusiasts: Carolyn Wassmer & Will Reimer
Favorite cheesy pickup line?

Carolyn: Are you Stacy’s mom? ‘Cause you’ve got it going on.
Will: If you were a fruit, you’d be a FINE-apple.

Who’s your Valentine this year?
Carolyn: Jared Leto
Will: Jimmy Kinney

Dates of Dances Past: Julia Sprouse & Mitch Kerr
Most awkward dance experience?
Julia: “Freshman year we were all not ready and the guys were waiting for us at the pictures. People were doing their makeup and my friend was pulling out her curlers.”
Mitch: “Having the after party at my house freshman year.”

Favorite Valentine’s Day Candy?
Julia: Reeses Eggs
Mitch: Chocolate

Dates of Dance Present: Annie Biritz and Conner Swanson
Best way you’ve been asked to a dance?
Annie: “Will Fenimore changed his contact name in my phone to “Prom?” I still haven’t changed it back.”
Conner: “Sydney Bahr asked me with a giant poster with my face on it.”

Who is your Valentine this year?

Annie: C Dow Tate
Conner: Brett Faulconer

Your Favorite Photogs: James Wooldridge & Mackenzie Hanna
Best love song?
James: Maybe I’m Amazed by Paul McCartney
Mackenzie: I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston

Favorite Candy Heart Saying?
James: “My Baby”
Mackenzie: “Cutie Pie”

Superb Singers: Jeff Madison & Grace Stanziola
Best way asked to a a dance?
Grace: “Over a Kahoot in choir”
Jeff: “Mackenzie Hanna asked me this year at K-life. I was revealing my art work and one of the presentations wasn’t a painting, it was a whiteboard that read “WPA with Mack?””

Favorite love story?
Grace: The Fault in our Stars
Jeff: Beauty and the Beast

Winter Sports Squad: Jack Flint & Kate Mitchell
Best way asked to a dance?
Jack: “Senior year I got asked with a bulldog named Tank. I was very Tank-ful.”
Kate: “Max Sanborn had a poster that said, “It’s the year of the lancer and also the year to go to HC with me” ”

Favorite love story?
Jack: Beauty and the Beast
Kate: “My parents, they’ve dated since high school.”

Perfect Match: Evan Lee & Stephanie Wilcox

Favorite Valentine’s candy?
Evan: Heart-shaped suckers
Stephanie: Snickers

Who is your Valentine this year/what are you giving them?
Evan: “Brett Faulconer; my heart”
Stephanie: “Caroline Kohring; a beta fish!”

PAIR of PALS: Jack Anderson & Maggie McGannon

Favorite cheesy pickup line?
Jack: Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?

Favorite love story?
Maggie: Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries

The Coolest Captains: Sam Huffman & Audrey Phillips
Favorite cheesy pickup line?
Sam: Are you a banana? Because I find you a-peeling
Audrey: I lost my number, can I borrow yours?

Most awkward dance experience?
Sam: “I am the worst dancer so any time I dance.”
Audrey: “Making toasts every year at dinner.”

Friday Night Lights: Sam Pottenger & Chloie Costello
Favorite love story?
Sam: Little Mermaid
Chloie: The show How I Met Your Mother

Favorite Valentine’s Day memory?
Sam: “Getting Reeses from a secret admirer in third grade; I still don’t know who it was.”

Musical Masterminds: Akshay Dinakar & Clara Ma
Best love song?
Clara: Yellow by Coldplay

Do you believe in true love?
Clara: “Yes. I think you can love certain people with your whole heart. I think loving your family is just as important as loving someone romantically. And I think there are a few people you can know for a short time, but love for as long as you live..”

IB Buds: Will Moore & Afton Apodaca
Favorite cheesy pickup line?
Afton: I wish I were adenine so I could get paired with U
Will: Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?
Favorite Valentine’s Day memory?
Afton: “It’s on my birthday so my mom always makes Valentine’s Day breakfast with heart shaped food.”
Will: “Sharing candy.”