This Valentine’s Day, as students stress about balancing class, practice, meetings, jobs and dates with their pumpkin-sweetie-angel-bears, they can take a cue from a few Baker University athletes who juggle all of these things with married life.Senior Greg Allen, 22, an exercise science major and basketball player, met his wife Erica in eighth grade.”We were both home-schooled,” Allen said. “She was a cheerleader at the school where I went to play basketball. Then we both went to (Johnson County Community College) at the same time, and that’s when we actually got together.”They continued dating when Allen chose to play basketball at Baker and his now-wife Erica went to the University of Kansas to pursue photography. When he decided to propose, he wanted it to be a complete surprise.”I tricked her into thinking I was having car problems,” he said. “I asked her to come get me, and I was at the park where we had gone when we started dating. At first she was really upset because she thought I ran out of gas, and it was really cold so she was like, ‘Let’s get out of here.’ But then I popped the question, and it just worked out perfectly.”The two were married July 11, 2006. Though still in college, they said they felt their relationship was mature enough to work.”The hardest part is probably trying to spend time with each other,” Greg Allen said. “We see each other at night, but I have homework, so does she, and I have to go to practice. It’s just about juggling our free time. I don’t want to say that we’re more mature than anyone else because we like to go out and have fun, too, but I think we knew our goals beforehand, and we knew what our priorities were, and we could still accomplish those things if we got married. We felt like we could make our lives better.”Hanson Perkins, a junior physical education major and baseball player, moved from Utah with his wife Torri to attend Baker.”We’ve known each other for about five years,” he said. “We dated in high school back in Utah. I think being married is easier (for us), but probably the hardest thing is that our schedules clash. It’s tough to match them up.”At halftime of a high school football game, the announcer named Torri the “winner” of a fake raffle. She was called to the center of the field, where Perkins proposed. They were married on Dec. 17, 2005. “I wanted to move out of Utah, and she wanted to also,” Perkins said. “We decided it would be easiest to get married; we had always wanted to and it wasn’t worth it to wait. It wasn’t out of convenience; it just felt like the right time.”