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\nTravis Kelce’s high school football coach recounted his experience meeting Taylor SwiftJeff Rotsky, who coached Kelce at Cleveland Heights High School, said Swift “treated us like gold”Rotsky revealed what Swift said to him when they met<\/p>\n
Travis Kelce<\/a>‘s high school football coach had nothing but kind words about the NFL star’s fianc\u00e9e, Taylor Swift.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n Jeff Rotsky, who coached Kelce, 36, during his high school years at Cleveland Heights High School in Ohio, recounted meeting the pop megastar, 35, at a Kansas City Chiefs game in 2023.\n<\/p>\n \u201cShe is the kindest young lady you ever met and down to earth,\u201d Rotsky told The Times<\/a> in an interview earlier this month. \u201cShe treated us like gold. \u201cThe first time we met, her opening line was, \u2018I\u2019ve been looking forward to meeting you, I want to hear all the dirt about Travis.\u2019\u201d\n<\/p>\n Rotsky told the outlet he keeps in touch with a whopping estimated 750 of his former student athletes. The coach said he chats with Kelce, now a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, throughout the year, and reportedly said he would be “blessed” to receive a wedding invite from the NFL star.\n<\/p>\n Travis Kelce in high school.<\/p>\n Travis Kelce\/Instagram<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\n<\/p>\n The coach went on to praise Kelce’s athletic abilities. \u201cI\u2019m proud of what he\u2019s done athletically. But eventually that runs out, and the question is, who is the man behind that?\u201d Rotsky said, pointing to a signed Kelce jersey by him, per The Times.\n<\/p>\n Rotsky continued, “Travis has grown up to be a leader, to have a kind heart, to have fun. As a coach or father, what more can you ask for from your son or player?\u201d\n<\/p>\n Kelce and Swift announced their engagement in August. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married \ud83e\udde8,” Swift wrote in the Instagram caption of the post. The post was set to the tune of “So High School,” a track long rumored to be about Travis since its appearance on her 2024 album\u00a0The Tortured Poets Department.\n<\/p>\n Travis proposed with a ring he designed with Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry. The stone is an “Old Mine brilliant cut,” which the “Cruel Summer” singer continues to show off at a series of press engagements following the Oct. 3 release of her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl \u2013 which she announced on Kelce’s podcast, New Heights.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Travis Kelce’s high school football coach recounted his experience meeting Taylor SwiftJeff Rotsky, who coached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-249563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}