Matt Graver, an US Olympic Team swimmer, stunned his girlfriend when he proposed her just moments after he won a gold medal.
katu reports:
For Matt Grevers, a top finish in the 100-meter backstroke Saturday night at the Missouri Grand Prix was a virtual necessity to pull off a surprise medal-stand marriage proposal to his girlfriend and USA national swimming teammate, Annie Chandler.
The couple of four years trains in Tucson, Ariz., where the 26-year-old Grevers relocated after winning four NCAA titles at Northwestern. The 24-year-old Chandler is a 2010 Arizona graduate seeking to appear in her first Olympics this year in London.
Chandler said she had little inkling that Grevers would propose, even when meet organizers asked her to help present the medals during her boyfriend’s event.
“I’ve just been searching for a unique way to pop the question. “My whole family is here and I figured it would be a perfect opportunity and a unique situation.”
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