Julie Johnston and her boyfriend Zach Ertz are probably going to have some pretty athletic children if they ever choose to procreate.
If there is anything the dating lives of the members of the US women’s national soccer team have taught us, it’s that athletes sure love dating their fellow athletes.
You have Alex Morgan who married a soccer player; Sydney Leroux also married a soccer player; Hope Solo is married to a former NFL player; Lauren Holiday is married to NBA player Jrue Holiday; and Julie Johnston’s boyfriend is also an NFL player. That’s just a sampling of things.
Johnston is only 23 and she is a newer member of the USWNT. She has been dating Ertz for three years. The two met by chance at a Stanford baseball game while in college. Ertz played football at Stanford, while Johnston was a soccer player at nearby Santa Clara.
In a recent blog post about his relationship with Johnston, Ertz shared how the two met:
Julie and I met about three years ago. We were both in college at the time. I was a junior at Stanford, and she was a sophomore at Santa Clara University. It was a pretty random meeting at a Stanford baseball game that she just happened to be attending. I was there with my buddies and saw her sitting in the student section, and just decided I wanted to meet her. So I went up and sat right next to her. We just hit it off from there. We hung out a few more times and after that, we just decided that we were going to be together. That was that.
The two have been together ever since then. Ertz, a NorCal native, was an All-American at Stanford and left school to enter the NFL Draft following his junior season. The Eagles took him in the second round. He is now entering his third season with Philly.
Though Johnston and Ertz are in different cities a good amount of the time, they still remain extremely close and are supportive of each others’ goals and dreams. As high-level pro athletes, they each know what it takes to be the best and train hard to achieve.
Head over to Page 2 to see many photos of Julie Johnston together with boyfriend Zach Ertz.
