MEDIA, Pa. — This Valentine’s Day, Penn State Brandywine is recognizing couples whose love stories began on the campus. Four couples — Vinny and Bobbi Gallo (class of 2013), Terry and Leslie Montgomery (class of 1985), Esteban and Ami Munoz (class of 2018), and Myeisha Matos and Dionna Aggie (class of 2015) — shared how they met and how Penn State Brandywine impacted their relationships.
Vinny and Bobbi Gallo
Vinny and Bobbi’s love story began in 2009. When asked how they met, the two had very different responses.
“The first time I saw Vinny was in the gym at a volleyball game. During my first year, I joined the volleyball team halfway through the season because they needed more players. I saw him in the gym working the volleyball game before I was even on the team,” recalled Bobbi, who is now Brandywine’s athletic director. “When I joined the team, I remember we had our first conversation. That was also in the gym.”
Vinny, though, recalled a completely different story of how the two of them met.
“The first time I saw Bobbi was in the gym, but it was in a very different capacity. Our fall baseball season had just ended, and women’s basketball was getting their uniforms while we were turning ours in,” said Vinny, who is now Brandywine’s head baseball coach.
“Bobbi was wearing a Marple shirt at the time, and I didn’t know who she was, so I asked someone on my team who went to Marple Newtown High School who she was. Turns out, Bobbi was his sister’s best friend. The first time we actually met, though, was in the former cafeteria in the Commons/Athletics Center.”
They said some of their favorite memories together during their time at Brandywine are going to Commonwealth Campus Student Government meetings at University Park, hanging out in the former Lion’s Den in the Commons/Athletics Center and Vinny announcing Bobbi’s basketball games.
Vinny and Bobbi got married in 2017, and they now have a son and a daughter.