Team USA women’s hockey star Hilary Knight said on Monday that she went “full send” mode while proposing to U.S. speedskater Brittany Bowe, causing her to totally overlook the grate below her when she got down on one knee.
“I wouldn’t recommend it,” said the gold medalist of 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.
Knight, when asked by host Jimmy Fallon why she’d add “stress to her life” by choosing such a location to ask, responded, “I like high-pressure situations, I guess.”
Just one day before she tipped a game-tying shot that helped send the American women to an overtime win over rival Canada, Knight proposed to her girlfriend and fellow Olympian in Milan.
The two initially met at the 2022 Beijing Games, where their masked, evening walks under strict COVID-19 policies blossomed into what Bowe called an “inseparable” bond.
Knight, America’s all-time leading goal scorer in Olympic hockey, smiled from ear to ear as she remarked on her fiancée, who was in the “Tonight Show” audience on Monday.
Last month, Team USA women’s hockey captain Hilary Knight announced her engagement to U.S. women’s speedskater Brittany Bowe as the two competed at the Winter Olympics in Milan last month.
Knight told Fallon that she was “really nervous” at last month’s Games and her plans to propose that day worked with Bowe’s speedskating competition schedule.
“I just went full send and I didn’t think about the grate until I was hovering over it, half-kneeled,” said the hockey star, adding that she was questioning how the jewelry box opened up at one point.
The gold medalist revealed that she kept the engagement ring on her throughout the Games and she checked on the shiny hardware nightly ahead of the proposal.
She told USA Today last month that proposing to Bowe before the gold medal final “seemed fitting” for the Olympic couple.
Both Olympians announced that last month’s Games would be their last.
″[I’m] just elated that we could top off our Olympics journeys together where we met,” said Knight in an interview with NBC. “It’s been 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.”