Humans of Drake

The Times-Delphic tells the stories of Drake students and faculty

Logan Shine • Second-year law student

Student comes to Drake with girlfriend graduates with his wife

Savannah Prescott Contributing Writer savannah.prescott@drake.edu @savageprescott

Some people don’t believe in love at first sight, but second year law student Logan Shine knew he wanted to marry his wife the moment he saw her.

His wife, Jackie Shine, was his high school sweetheart and childhood friend.

“In eighth grade I moved from Hawaii to Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. We found a house and my parents were headed over to the house to sign the papers,” L. Shine said. “They found out (the owners) had a daughter my age and thought I should meet her so I would have a friend at school.”

“When we got (to the house) we sat at the table in the kitchen and she walks through the door from track practice,” L. Shine said. “I still remember. She was super sweaty and had a chicken fingers box from Dairy Queen in her hand. It was so awkward and silent after we introduced ourselves because we were in middle school and it was embarrassing. As we were leaving I told my parents that was the girl I was going to marry,” Logan said.

J. Shine was the only person L. Shine knew at school and soon after they became inseparable.

“The rest of that year we were best friends,” L. Shine said. “All of my friends knew I liked her and would make fun of me for being in the ‘friend zone.’ We dated other people, but I always had something for her.”

Things finally lined up for L. Shine his junior year of high school, and he had a date set up with J. Shine for Valentine’s Day. Although the date ended well, it had a pretty rough start.

“We had been talking for a little bit and it was Valentine’s day,” L. Shine said. “It was such a big deal and I still remember what I wore. I was so nervous and I borrowed my mom’s car to take her out. I took a turn too quick and ended up stuck in a snowbank and her sister had to come pull me out. I was so embarrassed, but I was determined to take her on this date. So I took her to Olive Garden and I gave her a lame poem that I asked her out in and she said yes.”

The couple only lasted a week before they broke up after their first attempt.

“It was through text and I was heartbroken. We didn’t talk the whole summer. So then we ran into each other at a softball game right before the start of our senior year,” L. shine said. “We talked and laughed together that day and then we talked for a while before we finally got back together later on in the year.”

“It was so awkward and silent after we introduced ourselves because we were in middle school and it was embarrassing. As we were leaving I told my parents that was the girl I was going to marry.”

Logan Shine Second Year Law student

L. Shine explained that they left for different schools for college, but they stayed together throughout the years apart.

“She went to Drake. I went to the University of Northern Iowa. Things got serious so I decided to transfer. After my undergraduate degree, I transferred to Drake to come to the law school and to be with her,” L. Shine said.

L. Shine decided to take the jump and propose to J. Shine.

“I told her I was going home for the weekend to help roof a house with my uncle, but I was really going home to ask for her hand in marriage and buy a ring,” L. Shine said. “When I asked her mom she immediately started crying and said yes. When I asked her dad, I was so nervous. He replied ‘Hell no!’ my heart goes into my stomach and I start panicking. All of a sudden he starts laughing and he says ‘yes.’ So I went and bought the ring and had to keep the secret for a whole week.”

The following weekend the couple had plans to go back home, but really he was going to propose where they first met, at J. Shine’s home.

“Jackie was asking me what was wrong because I was so nervous,” L. Shine said. “We get back to the house and I went to the kitchen because that was where I first set eyes on her. She came into the kitchen and I asked her, ‘Do you remember where we were when we first met?’ She replied, ‘Yeah we were right here.’”

He went on to tell her that even back then, that she was the one he wanted to marry.

“Since she was going to be a pharmacist, I put the ring into a prescription bottle and had it filled out for her,” L. Shine said. “She thought it was a joke, but when she saw the ring she started crying. Thankfully, she said yes.”

He proposed on Sept. 28, 2013 and they were married on Jan. 3, 2015.

Student Activities

Baseball club new to campus, hopes to compete in intercollegiate games next year

An outstanding promise hovers over many students at Drake University that anyone can start any club they want. There’s scheduling, planning, paperwork and recruiting involved but the promise held true for Josh Cook when he started the baseball club this year.

Drake boasts an NCAA Division-I level softball team, but hasn’t had an outlet for baseball fans for years.

Cook hoped to remedy this by successfully putting together a club of interested members.

“People like baseball quite a bit,” Cook said. “I lived with a bunch of kids on first floor in Stalnaker last year who were huge baseball fans (wh0) also played it and wanted to play more. I had more and more people asking me about it.”

From there, Cook said he realized a club to play baseball either for fun or competitively could have a niche at Drake and went through the proposal process, working with Student Senate and a representative from Drake Athletics.

“Before I even started it, I had like 20 guys worth of interest, which is more than you need for a baseball game anyway,” Cook said and noted that the number has increased since then to about 35.

Given the weather and the club’s lack of access to a baseball field, Cook has yet to get formal practices underway.

“A normal practice is probably about 10 guys (who) show up, we start by stretching our arms out a little bit and playing some catch and then there’s batting cages we can use in the field house,” said Payton Diamond, a friend of Cook’s who has been supportive of the baseball club from the beginning. up jerseys and hats, something Cook hopes to turn into a fundraising event where other students can buy their designs as well and the proceeds can go to a league fee for the club.

“The intramural fields are an option for us but what we’re trying to do is find a high school in the area that will let us practice right before they get out of school … or let us play there on off days if we keep up the field,” Cook said.

While the baseball club is designed as a club and not an official sports team, Cook hopes form teams to scrimmage against each other and also create “a competitive roster” of interested members to compete in club leagues and play against similar organizations from other colleges.

Cook said he was already contacted by University of Iowa to compete against each other but will need time to organize and find a field to play on.

“We’re still very much in our infancy right now,” Cook said. “My plan is, even if we don’t get into a club tournament this summer or spring, to have a competitive roster established for fall and maybe play some fall ball.”

Most members of the baseball club have a history of playing baseball but hardly have an opportunity to anymore.

“I started playing T-ball at about five and I’ve played ever since then,” Diamond said. “I had a couple offers to go play at small D3 schools but decided to give up being an athlete to come have a better education at a school like Drake.”

There is still a lot of work to be done with the club, but Cook said he wanted to start the club simply because Drake didn’t have one and this will give interested students a chance to pursue a shared interest in baseball.

“I think it gives us the opportunity to go out and play a sport that we really love that a lot of people coming to Drake never thought they’d have the opportunity to do,” Diamond said.

Cook said he’s been working on organizing and planning the logistics of the club but it’s taking time to coordinate.

For equipment, Cook said the group has been supplying their old helmets, balls, gloves and bats and their next step will be making for it to have two purposes in playing baseball.

For all members, he hopes to be able to have enough people to

The club is open to both men and women. To get involved, the best way would be to email Cook at joshua.cook@drake.edu.

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