Just putting those words in her coaching biography, Ball State University women's golf coach Katherine Mowat stood across worlds both utterly mundane in one light, yet brave and radical in another.
Look at any college athletic department's website and any coach's page, and you'll find a rundown of personal information: spouse, children, often even a posed photo of a family together. In 2011, Mowat wanted the same.
Only while most of those spots list a husband, she was going to have her then-partner, now-wife Mandy Harrison listed. The couple were having their first child, and if everyone else had their family displayed proudly, why shouldn't she?
As she broached the topic with her sports supervisor, Joe Hernandez, she was taking the step of becoming one of the few openly gay coaches in college sports.
"I said, 'Hey, can we put this in about Mandy?' " Mowat said. "He said, 'Absolutely.' I walked out of his office, and it was like, wow, that was easy. But yet so significant because I realized that I have so many friends and colleagues, who perhaps for whatever reasons, have not felt comfortable asking that question at their respective institutions or have not even wanted to go there. For me, it was a big deal."
That Mowat is gay was not exactly a secret to those who knew her. She'd been in a relationship with Harrison for nearly her entire tenure at Ball State (seven years at that point, 11 now).
But how out someone is remains a personal decision, and Mowat found herself having to come out to a multitude of people, having to declare her sexual orientation. Putting it out there publicly is a wider-reaching choice, but it brought her a kind of normalcy.