Team USA women’s hockey player Hilary Knight said Monday that she used “full send” mode when she proposed to American skater Brittany Bowe, causing her to completely miss the gridiron below her as she got down on one knee.
“I wouldn’t recommend it,” said the gold medalist where she decided to pop the question during an interview on “The Tonight Show” alongside Team USA men’s hockey stars, brothers Jack and Quinn Hughes.
When asked by host Jimmy Fallon why Knight would add “stress to her life” by choosing such a location to ask, he replied: “I like high-pressure situations, I guess.”
Just one day before she tipped game-tying shot that helped propel the American women to victory over rival Canada, Knight proposed to her girlfriend and fellow Olympian in Milan.
The two first met at the 2022 Games in Beijing, where their masked evening walks under strict COVID-19 policies turned into what Bowe called a ‘inseparable’ bond.
Knight, America’s all-time leading scorer in Olympic hockey, smiled from ear to ear as she said something about her fiancé, who was in the audience of the “Tonight Show” on Monday.
Knight told Fallon that she was “very nervous” during last month’s Games and that her plans to propose that day fit in with Bowe’s skating competition schedule.
“I just went full speed and didn’t think about the grille until I was half-kneeling over it,” the hockey star said, adding that she wondered how the jewelry box opened at one point.
The gold medalist revealed that she wore the engagement ring with her throughout the Games and checked the shiny hardware every night before the proposal.
She told USA Today Last month, the proposal to Bowe before the gold medal final seemed “appropriate” for the Olympic couple.
Both Olympians announced that last month’s Games would be their last.
″[I’m] I was just elated that we could finish our Olympic journeys together where we met,” Knight said in an interview with NBC. “It is a constant in our lives and to do this together is really special.”
Watch more of Knight and the Hughes brothers’ appearance on “The Tonight Show.”
