Olivia

I was recruited to the college.

Cato and I met winter of my senior year of high school, and it was at a recruiting event in North Texas.

He was there recruiting and my number was called.

I really wasn't interested in joining the program.

And then I had a friend who was and she went on a tour.

We drove up to the school one weekend and I liked it.

It wasn't my top choice school by any means.

But then we started talking about scholarships and he was willing to give me a talent scholarship.

And so I decided to go for it.

Mostly it was positive.

I mean, he really seemed like he wanted to invest in me.

And when I got to the school for my tour, it very much felt that way.

Like I could tell he wanted me there, that he wanted to help me grow and to give me all the tools that I needed to be a successful actress.

So I felt like going there, it would really do me a lot of good.

He was very paternal to me in a lot of ways.

Whenever we first met, it felt like he was a very strong mentor in my life.

I did.

We were very close from the second that I got there.

We would have these majors meetings where all of the people in the department, we would come together.

We would talk about stuff going on on campus, stuff happening in the department.