Kathleen Bassett, the wife of Dabo Swinney, is a former teacher and now a philanthropist.
Bassett serves as Vice Chair of the All In Team Foundation and is actively involved as a Community Leader in Clemson, S.C.
Aside from her philanthropic works, Kathleen likes to bake, to the degree where she reads cookbooks on airplanes. She loves baking as she feels that it is a great stress reliever.
In middle school, she was a cheerleader. Remembering her routine from her younger days, Kathleen would go cheer him in high school at Dabo’s every football and basketball game.
How Did Dabo And Kathleen Swinney Met Each Other?
Dabo and his partner Kathleen Swinney initially met in elementary school and had known one another since they were young.
The two were students at the same middle school and high school. However, they attended separate elementary schools in Birmingham, Alabama, and were in different grades. When they met each other for the first time, Dabo was in second grade and Kathleen was in class one.
The two were close as both were part of the elementary school safety patrol and the middle school student council. They even went to the student council dances together.
However, despite being inseparable, they did not begin dating until they were both enrolled at Pelham High School. After high school, unsurprisingly, they attended the University of Alabama and walked the stage to receive their degree in 1993.
After receiving a degree in Education, Kathleen followed the path to becoming a school teacher.
While Dabo initially started his steps into the professional world as a Graduate Assistant under Coach [Gene] Stallings, she was teaching at a nearby middle school in Tuscaloosa.
Dabo proposed to his better half Kathleen on August 19, 1993, at Denny Chimes, which is on the quad at Alabama. While they were walking on the quad one night, he got down on one knee and proposed. They have been lawfully wedded for almost two decades now.
