Valentine’s Day came early for Team USA’s Alpine skier Breezy Johnson at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.
Following competing in the women’s super-G on Thursday, Feb. 12, the U.S. skier was proposed to by her boyfriend of almost 2½ years, Connor Watkins, at the bottom of the hill at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo surrounded by teammates and family.
It was an engagement roughly a year in the making for the Olympian and Watkins, who moved in together during the summer of 2024.
‘I had told him that I always dreamed of getting proposed to at the Olympics, so I had an inkling,’ Johnson said.
In addition to receiving an engagement ring, Johnson picked up her first Olympic medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics, as she took home gold in the women’s downhill on Sunday, Feb. 8. She didn’t finish in Thursday’s super-G after crashing.
But who is Johnson’s fiancé? Here’s what to know on Watkins:
Who is Breezy Johnson engaged to?
Breezy Johnson is now engaged to Connor Watkins, her boyfriend of almost 2½ years. As noted by USA TODAY Sports’ Nancy Armour, Watkins originally hails from Georgia and works in the construction industry.
Watkins gave Johnson a note with lyrics from Taylor Swift’s ‘The Alchemy,’ a song Johnson said is fitting for their relationship, and he was also wearing a knitted hat that the gold medalist made for him. Johnson is known to be an avid knitter and knits a new headband/hat for every event that she competes in.
Talk about making the proposal fully sentimental.
How did Breezy Johnson meet her fiancé?
The two are a success story of the dating app, Bumble.
However, when Johnson and Watkins first met, Watkins had no clue who the two-time Olympian was until he asked her what she did for a living during their first date.
‘I was a little taken aback. I had very little knowledge of ski racing and everything else,’ Watkins said on Thursday. ‘Over the past couple years, I’ve really grown to love it.’
Did Breezy Johnson’s fiancé play at Villanova?
No, Johnson’s fiancé did not play at Villanova. That is a different Connor Watkins.
USA TODAY Sports’ Nancy Armour contributed to this story