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Marcus Mariota and Kiyomi Cook are college sweethearts.
The following year, the couple went public with their relationship and were seen together at an NFL Draft party in Honolulu. In 2020, Mariota proposed, and a year later, they got married. In December 2022, they welcomed a daughter, Makaia.
When Mariota isn’t playing football, he’s often spending time with his family. In April 2023, he posted photos onInstagramof his wife and daughter on the beach with their two dogs. On Christmas Day in 2022, he posted afamily photowith everyone wearing matching pajamas.
Aside from the occasional social media post, the pair are relatively private, and Cook maintains a low profile herself.
So, who is Marcus Mariota’s wife? Here’s everything to know about Kiyomi Cook and her relationship with the NFL player.
She grew up in Oregon
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Cook was born to Karl and Carol Cook in 1993 and raised in Gresham, Oregon, alongside her sister Kerri.
According to her Oregon Ducks Soccerprofile, she attended Sam Barlow High School and played for the school’s soccer team. As a high school athlete, she made all-state and all-conference in 2008.
She played soccer in college and worked as a soccer coach
Cook attended the University of Oregon, where she studied human physiology and psychology, according to herLinkedInprofile. She then earned a master’s degree in exercise and nutrition science at Lipscomb University in Nashville.
While at Oregon, Cook played for their soccer team, and her main position was a midfielder. After graduating from college, Cook worked as a soccer coach in Nashville from 2015 to 2020. She worked at the University School of Nashville from 2015 to 2019 and at Father Ryan High School from 2016 to 2020, according to LinkedIn.
She met Mariota in 2014
Mariota attended the University of Oregon at the same time as Cook, and they met in 2014. They went on to make their relationship public in 2015. They were seen together in Honolulu at an NFL Draft party that year, according toa tweet fromHawaii News Now.
The Tennesee Titans player also confirmed that he was living with Cook in Nashville during a February 2016 interview withThe Tennessean.
“We don’t have a whole lot of [free] time,” he said at the time. “But I went down on Broadway for a little bit, just to hang out at some of the — like Acme Feed & Seed and I think it’s called Tootsies. Anyway, we kind of just got to see Broadway a little bit and heard a lot of music at the country bars. It was a lot of fun. … We’re still kind of exploring.”
She married Mariota in 2021
In June 2020, theHonolulu Star-Advertiserreported that Mariota had proposed to Cook. They got married in Hawaii the following year, perUSA Today.
Around 100 people attended the ceremony, includingLogan Ryan, who played for the Tennessee Titans alongside Mariota from 2017 to 2019. Ryan paid tribute to the newlyweds onInstagram, posting photos of himself with them and wishing them both “nothing but eternal happiness."
She has a daughter with Mariota
In December 2022, Mariota and Cook welcomed their first child together, asOregonLivereported. Mariota’s foundation, Motiv8, later shared a photo of the couple with their newborn onInstagram, sharing that they named her Makaia Kei Mariota.
Mariota and Cook also share two dogs. In April 2023, Mariota’s foundation shared aphotoon Instagram of the pair walking with their dogs on the beach as Cook held their daughter.
She is passionate about giving back
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In 2016, Cook volunteered for Habitat for Humanity alongside her husband and his parents, asThe Tennesseanreported.
They helped to build a home for a local family. “I just like being a part of the community and this is a great way to get involved,” Mariota told the outlet. “We have some free time in the offseason and this is a good way to spend it. I got to meet the family when we started working and it’s all about giving them a roof over their heads and I’m happy to be part of that."
Cook also serves as the social media director of her husband’s foundation, Motiv8. Mariota established the nonprofit during this first year in the NFL, and its mission is to “empower today’s youth through academics and the power of sport.”
source: people.com
