Megan Rapinoe is an American soccer player in the National Women's Soccer League. She's had a hugely successful career, having competed at the FIFA women's world cup multiple times. She has received multiple awards and garnered plenty of recognition as a player. And she has just as much to be proud of in her personal life.
Megan Rapinoe is married to famous WNBA superstar Sue Bird who plays for the Seattle Storm basketball team, who has competed at the Olympics four times. The two had been dating since 20016 sand finally announced they were engaged in October 2020. It is not known whether they have yet tied the knot.
Serena Williams is one of the most well-known and highly skilled tennis players around. In her career, she has won 23 Grand Slam singles, which is the most of any player in the Open Era and the second-most of all time. Her husband is no athlete but is a well-known social media celebrity, co-founder of Reddit: Alexis Ohanian.
Alexis Ohanian is an entrepreneur who graduated from the University of Virginia. As an investor, he has been an active supporter of the National Women's Soccer League. In 2016, Ohanian and Williams had announced they were engaged. Not long after they had a daughter together and married just two months later.
Alex Morgan is a professional soccer player within the Women's National Soccer League and the US national soccer team. She has co-captained the team along with Megan Rapinoe from 2018 to 2020. After graduating from Berkley, she became the youngest player to compete at the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011 and in 2012 she competed at the London Olympics.
Morgan is married to Servando Corrasco, who she met at Berkley. Having been married since 2014, the couple had their first child in 2020. Soccer midfielder Corrasco had been born in America but spent most of his childhood in Tijuana, Mexico. A professional in his own career, this couple continues to support each other and their baby girl.
Shawn Johnson is a famous gymnast who won a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics for the balance beam competition. She is also a world champion and has earned various other medals over the years. As of 2012, she has retired as a gymnast, having never fully recovered from an injury in her left knee. But while she enjoys retirement, her husband Andrew East is still very much active in his career.
She and her husband Andrew East had been engaged since 2015 until they got married in 2016. As a free agent in the NFL, he has played for multiple teams across the country, including the Seattle Seahawks and the Oakland Raiders. Most recently, he played for the Washington Redskins, or as they are now called, the Washington Football team.
Mia Hamm is one of the most famous women soccer players of all time. The now-retired player won two gold medals at the Olympics and was a champion at FIFA twice as well. Mia Hamm had first married her college sweetheart, Christiaan Corry, but divorced him six years later in 2001.
Nomar Garciaparra is her second husband, who is a Boston Red Sox shortstop, in 2003. In 2007, Hamm gave birth to two girls, and then a son in 2012. The now-retired player is one of just 13 to have scored two grand slams in a single game. Now he continues to make money as an investor.
Tara Lipinski is a retired competitive figure skater who is now an active sports commentator. In 1998, she was an Olympic champion and up until 2019, she was the youngest figure skater to have won the US Nationals. During her professional career, she won every competition she entered, having performed in over 300 live shows.
She has also found much success in her love life, having been with the same man since 2015. She met Todd Kapostasy in 2015 and married him two years later. Figure skater Johnny Weir attended the wedding as a bridesman and Scott Hamilton was a guest. Best of luck to the couple, but we're guessing they won't need it.
Missy Franklin is without a doubt one of the best swimmers in the world. The five-time Olympic gold medalist who set a record for the 200-meter backstroke. After competing at the 2012 Olympics, she participated in numerous championships around the world and competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The now-retired swimmer has now settled down Hayes Johnson. The couple met at the University of Texas in 2018 and married in 2019. Hayes Johnson is also a former swimmer who competed at the Olympic trials. While he might not be able to compete with Missy, the couple is a perfect match.
Kristi Yamaguchi is another former figure skater, who was a two-time world champion and competed in the 1992 Olympics. That year she won as champion and in 2005, she was inducted in the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. She has been married since 2000 and the marriage is still going strong.
Bret Hedican is another athlete on ice, but in a whole different ice rink. The American hockey player is a Stanley Cup champion and a two-time US Olympic competitor. He played the very same year as Kristi Yamaguchi won her gold medal. He continued to play until retiring in 2009. The couple now has two daughters together.
Carli Llyod is a midfielder in the National Women's Soccer League. The two-time Olympic gold modality and two-time FIFA champion continues to play to this day, even as she pushes 40, proving age is indeed just a number. She is married to golfer Brian Hollins.
The couple got married in 2016 in Puerto Morelos, Mexico. While Brian Hollins doesn't quite have the celebrity status that Carli Lloyd has, he's nonetheless an exceptional golfer. Not much is known about him but they are allegedly high school sweethearts and next-door neighbors.
Caroline Wozniaki is a retired danish tennis player who was once world No. 1 in singles. She held that ranking for 71 weeks and earned $35 million in prize money. After years of competing, she gave her farewell tour at the 2020 Australian series. While she was smashing the competition, Wozniaki was tied to a few different athletes in terms of dating, but ultimately found love with a basketball player.
David Lee is a former NBA player who was a two-time NBA all-star. He has played for the Knicks, the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics among others. In 2017, the couple confirmed they were dating and got engaged that very year. They finally married in June 2019, and in 2021, announced they were having their first child together.
Lisa Leslie is a former basketball player who is now a head coach in the Triplets in the BIG3 professional basketball league. In the WNBA, she was a three-time MVP and a four-time gold medalist at the Olympics. In 2015, she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
She has been married to Michael Lockwood since 2005. Lockwood is a basketball lover himself, having played it in the Airforce and now works as a pilot for UPS. In 2007, it was revealed the couple was having a baby together and she took a year off. She returned to play in 2008 and had a second child in 2010.
Brianna Theisen-Eaton is a Canadian track and field star. She has competed in multiple world champions ships and the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is married to Ashton Eaton, a decathlete who she met at the University of Oregon. He is a two-time Olympic champion who holds a world record for the heptathlon event.
The couple had met in 2006 but things hadn't got serious until 2007 at the 2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in Brazil. Brianne Theisen and Ashton Eaton married in 2013, which was one year after they both competed at the 2013 Olympics. They are both retired and now live in San Francisco apparently.
Morgan Beck is an American volleyball player and model. At 6 foot 3 inches, she was born to play the sport. While growing up in California, she attended San Clemente High School and excelled in volleyball, even then. She got 39 kills in a single game and 544 kills in a season. After high school, she attended Berkley and was part of the volleyball team there.
A member of the United States women's national volleyball team, Morgan Beck ended up at the 2012 Olympics, where her future skiing husband Bodie Miller. They dated for just five months before tying the knot. They have four sons together, including a pair of twins.
Misty Copeland is one of the most famous ballet dancers of the modern age and she's the first African American dancer to be promoted to principal dancer in American Ballet Theatre history. The highly skilled ballet dancer started at 13 years old, which is older than most prodigies. In 2015, she was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Misty Copeland married Olu Evans, an attorney back in July 2016. The couple had been introduced back in 2004 by Taye Diggs – Evan's cousin. Having been married for almost 10 years now, the happy couple is going strong with her husband acting as a significant source of support for her career.
Ronda Rousey is a professional wrestler in the WWE and a mixed martial artist in the UFC. She has an Olympic medal in Judo and is the first American woman to win one. And that was just the start of her career back in 2008. Over the years, she had been linked with UFC fighters, like Brendan Schaub, but it was Travis Browne that ultimately fought for her heart.
Travis Browne and Ronda Rousey have been confirmed to be a couple as far back as 2015. In 2017, they announced they were engaged and married that same year. Travis Browne is also a UFC fighter and heavyweight. He has been a professional fighter since 2009. As of 2021, the couple is expecting their first child.
