Hilary Knight‘s Olympic journey may be coming to an end, but another is just beginning.
Knight, who has said the 2026 Milan Cortina Games will be her last, got engaged to fellow Olympic medalist Brittany Bowe, she announced Wednesday.
Knight and Bowe fell in love at the last Winter Olympics in Beijing four years ago.
“We really got to know each other in Beijing and have really been inseparable ever since,” Bowe said, via Olympics.com.
And now, it appears the 2026 Olympics will also be the start of their lives together.
“Olympics brought us together. This one made us forever,” Knight wrote in the caption of a video that showed her proposing to Bowe.
Now there’s only one thing left for the U.S. power couple in Milan — gold medals.
Knight, or “Captain America” as she’s known at the 2026 Winter Olympics, has already made history with her appearance at the Games in Italy, but even more is on the line as the U.S. faces its final game Thursday — another gold medal match against Canada.
The 36-year-old, who grew up in the northern Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and headlines the U.S. women’s hockey roster, set a U.S. women’s hockey record for most Winter Games appearances after winning gold in 2018 and three silver medals.
Already guaranteed at least a silver medal, Knight will hold the record for the most Olympic medals women in USA women’s hockey.
Team USA women’s ice hockey captain Hilary Knight is a 10-time world champion, four-time Olympic medalist and now the proclaimed queen of the ice.
In her first appearance at the 2026 Games, she was among four players to score goals as the U.S. beat Czechia 5-1. That lifted Knight to 13 Olympic goals scored in her career.
She went on to score her 14th goal in the Games and tie the record for most Olympic goals, which she now holds alongside Natalie Darwitz and Katie King. Thursday’s game will mark her last chance to beat that record — and to win gold.
The 2026 Games will also mark Bowe’s last.
Bowe is making her fourth Olympic appearance in Milan Cortina. The 37-year-old speed skater is a two-time bronze medalist, and her last ever Olympic event will be the 1500m on Friday.
No matter where they land in the standings, it seems congratulations are in order.
