Jordan Love's girlfriend Ronika Stone takes to TikTok to ask for respect on her name during her pro volleyball season with San Diego Mojo
Any time Jordan Love is in public he's going to attract a crowd and have requests made for him even when he's not in Green Bay.
The Packers quarterback has quickly gotten to that level.
He found that out this weekend when he was in San Diego for the volleyball home opener of his girlfriend's team, the Mojo, when cheesehead-wearing kids were in the crowd asking for pictures.
It appears some reporters also want to use his girlfriend Ronika Stone to get to Love, whose play over the final two months of the 2023 season, including a historic postseason game, has raised the quarterback's profile.
Stone, a dominant pro athlete in her own right, took to TikTok last week to tell her 133,600 followers to put some respect on her name as well.
"Spent my entire life in athletics and currently in my 4th yr pro," but a "reporter asks to interview my boyfriend after my match."
Stone wrote over the video while looking dejected and lip-syncing to the lyrics "all that work and what did it get me." Those lyrics to go with a select moment have quickly become a TikTok trend.
In the description to her TikTok she wrote: “You can have ‘pookie' during his season lol."
"Pookie" is the nickname Stone has for Love, whom she has been in a relationship with since at least 2020.
Stone was one of Love's biggest supporters during his first season as the Packers' starting quarterback. Love is doing the same now for Stone, who is one of the leaders for the Mojo in their inaugural season in the Pro Volleyball Federation League.
San Diego Mojo's Ronika Stone (7) and her boyfriend, Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love, celebrate together after the Mojo beat the Grand Rapids Rise at Viejas Arena. @sdut pic.twitter.com/VfPbw11Thi
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Ronika Stone set records at Oregon, continuing her volleyball career with San Diego Mojo
People should definitely put some respect on Stone's name.
After an All-American career at the University of Oregon in which she set multiple program records, Stone embarked on a pro career.
She started it in France and now is continuing it with the Mojo, one of eight teams in the new league. It was a slow start for the Mojo on the season losing their first three matches on the road but Stone has been one of the team's top performers.
Ronika Stone helps San Diego Mojo win first-ever match
Stone and the Mojo won their first-ever match, 3-1, on Friday at home against the Grand Rapids Rise.
Besides Stone, the Mojo have two players Wisconsin volleyball fans know very well: Grace Loberg, who started on the 2021 national championship team, and Temi Thomas-Ailara, who transferred to Wisconsin for her fifth and final season in 2023, are outside hitters for the Mojo.
Stone and Thomas-Ailara both had big performances in the victory. Stone had a key block with the score 34-all in the first set and then brought the pressure at the net on the clinching point of the marathon 36-34 first-set win.
Thomas-Ailara, who has led the Mojo in kills in three of the team's four matches, had the clinching kills in both the third and fourth-set 25-23 victories.
In the win, Stone and Thomas-Ailara both had a 40% kill rate. Thomas-Ailara led the Mojo with 25 kills and also added five blocks. Thomas-Ailara leads the Mojo on the season with 52 kills.
After the victory, Stone and Love had a fun handshake on the court to celebrate the occasion.
Stone and the Mojo are back on the court Thursday against the Vegas Thrill, a team it lost to, 3-0, last week on the road.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Jordan Love celebrates with girlfriend Ronika Stone after Mojo match