Colt McCoy gets his first start for the Washington Redskins on Monday night and fans are wondering about his wife Rachel McCoy.
Rachel Diane Glandorf, 27, accepted McCoy’s proposal back in January 2010, when he took her to Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and flashed “Will You Marry Me” on the giant scoreboard. They were married in July of that year.
Glandorf, described as a 6-foot, lean, and blonde Baylor University graduate, said back then that her decision to go to the university would lead her to her husband.
“It’s funny how that worked out,” she told the Associated Press.
“I’m just really looking forward to our wedding day,” said McCoy. “I’m truly blessed to have found someone who believes in me the way she does, someone who has given up--and will continue to give up--so much so I can chase my dreams.”
Glandorf said that she interviewed McCoy several times as a KEYE-TV intern before going out with him, even bringing a friend to their first date.
Glandorf went to high school at Vail Christian in Colorado after being born in Los Angeles, California and growing up in Peoria, Arizona.
At Baylor, she was part of the track team.
“Lettered for four seasons in track and field at Vail Christian High School in Edwards, Colo ... Earned all-state and all-conference honors in track and field following her sophomore, junior and senior seasons,” according to her profile on the school’s website.
She also earned four letters in volleyball and basketball, earning multiple honors such as an all-state and all-conference selection in multiple years for both sports.
And showing her intelligence, she was also a member of the honor roll.
Not much has come out about the new Mrs. McCoy since the marriage other than in 2011, when McCoy talked about apparent violations in the Texas Longhorn’s program.
“Regularly it’s just dinner. People in Texas are just being friendly, they don’t mean anything by it at all. They don’t realize realize most of the time it’s a violation. At Texas you’re taught to take absolutely nothing, I don’t care if it’s a hot dog or soda. But you’ve got guys, grown adult men with law degrees – educated men – what are they going to gain out of this? It’s to say, ‘Hey, I bought so and so dinner, hey I took so and so to do this’ … It’s grown men and their pride. You cannot expect 19-20 year old kids to say no to free stuff when they’re in college,” she said during an ESPN interview.
“It’s hard, I think, for a lot of these guys to even know to say, ‘I can take this, I can’t take this, nobody’s going to know, will someone find out? ’Things that could be handed to you that seem so minor – a dinner, a hunt, a fishing trip – most kids don’t even realize are illegal.
“I know Colt was approached quite a bit [by agents] but I saw so many of his teammates who didn’t have some of that self control to say no to somebody … it’s hard, because you have adults who you respect and who you think will know what’s right and wrong … when you have adults promising things and offering things.”
