Jesse and I started "going out" in 6th grade. We dated all through middle school and high school at Jenks. We both attended the University of Tulsa and broke up our Freshman year. We remained friends but never thought we would date again. 5 years later we got back together and married in October 2013. We have two kids, Wyatt (7) and Emma (4). They are both at Jenks Southeast (where I went) and we LOVE it! It is very cool walking the same halls we grew up in with our kids. Always a TROJAN!

Brandon and I shared a geometry class during our sophomore year, where our story began to unfold. It was during that time when he approached my best friend, seeking my phone number. Throughout our junior year and into senior year, our bond deepened, until the day Brandon finally asked me to be his girlfriend. Our journey took us through college and back home, where we welcomed our first baby boy not long after. 

Met each other in Jenks middle school end of Tina’s eighth grade year 1986 and Marc’s sophomore year at Jenks high school. Marc was a varsity football player #40 and Tina played varsity volleyball. High school sweetheart's Marc Garrison graduated 1988 and Tina Sanders graduated 1990, upon Marc’s graduation from the University of Oklahoma with a mechanical engineering degree in May got married in August 1992 and moved to South Texas where we’ve planted roots for over 30years. Had two sons now ages 24 and 21 expecting our first granddaughter in July.

John Jennings and Whitney Cannon met in the Jenks High School Trojan Pride marching band in 2003. A grade ahead of her, John played trombone and Whitney played mellophone. They were very good friends, but for Valentine’s Day 2005 John decided it was time to take it to the next step. He sleuthed Whitney’s locker combination and placed white roses and other gifts in her locker. Soon after, they became boyfriend and girlfriend... And the rest is history! 

Because of our age difference we did not know each other well while we were in school. We rode the same bus and I knew her older sister Deborah Ogle. Jenks was a small school in those days so you knew your friends families.

After high school I attended a semester at OSU then moved to South Texas for work. I lived in San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Houston, and Victoria, TX. Leigh attended Westminster College in Fulton, MO and OU Law School.

Hi my name is Hunter Sidorakis (Peterson) and my husband, Nick Sidorakis and I met back in 1997 at Jenks Southeast Elementary in the 2nd grade. Not only did we have the same friends at school, but our parents were in the same circle of friends so we were constantly together our whole childhood, and remained best friends with the occasional on and off boyfriend/girlfriend title through our middle school years. 

We are true high school sweethearts. I was a way too skinny beanpole sophomore, lured into the wily ways of a cute Junior High Kicker captain.

It was 1988 and Lisa Lockwood needed a date for the Spring Symphony set “Dirty Dancing” party March 11,1988. I was approached by one of the senior varsity Linebackers to ask if I wanted to go to the dance with her… She was too scared to ask herself, so she sent her intimidating ambassador (how could I say no)!

I can not think of a couple who exemplify the meaning of “Jenks Sweethearts” more than JoAnn and J.D. Newland of Jenks. Their story begins and ends in Jenks and everything in between revolves around Jenks. J.D. went through all 12 years of school at the Jenks Schools, only missing 1 day. JoAnn’s family moved to Jenks during the summer preceding her sophomore year of high school. J.D. was one grade ahead of JoAnn, but it did not take long before a romance began. 

We met in 2012 during Daniel’s sophomore year and Kristen’s junior year. Kristen was a calculus tutor and tutored a baseball player that was on the Jenks baseball team with Daniel. Kristen expressed her interest in Daniel during a tutoring session, so the friend gave her Daniel’s number. Kristen never got the courage to text Daniel, but she did go to a baseball game with friends. 

My husband Jim and I met our Freshmen year at Jenks. We were both in the marching band and officially started dating while on a trip to the Catoosa Marching Festival. Our fondest memories while at Jenks was all our Marching and Concert Festivals we attended.