There are many great examples of athletes and their couples making news. Amanda Nunes and Nina Ansaroff are just a few of the many examples. Bird and Rapinoe and Granato & Ferraro are also notable examples. You may even have heard of retired athletes that have found love in each other's arms.
Amanda Nunes, Nina Ansaroff
They have been together for more than a decade and are still in a loving relationship. They met in 2012 while working together at a Florida gym. The couple announced their engagement last August. They are a well-known couple in UFC and have worked together to support each other. Nunes credits Ansaroff with her success and says she couldn’t have done it alone.
Nina Ansaroff competes in UFC's strawweight division. She was born and raised in Weston Florida. In 2009 she started training as mixed martial artist. She holds a record 16 wins and 6 losses. She is known for her comebacks. She currently ranks 13th in the women’s pound-for pound rankings.
Julie Ertz and Zach Ertz
Zach Ertz is married to Julie and they are both professional athletes. Zach is an end for the Philadelphia Eagles. Julie plays for the Chicago Red Stars. Both are currently vying in the U.S. women's national team. The couple met while both were at Bay Area universities.
Zach Ertz and Julie Ertz were married in 2017, and their daughter was born a week ago. The couple met while playing Stanford's baseball. They were married last march. Fans have celebrated their marriage and it has been covered in the media.
Bird and Rapinoe
Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe and Megan Rapinoe are a couple of athletes. They both reside in Seattle. They talk about many topics, including women's basketball in America. Rapinoe shared photos of Bird on her Instagram Stories, as well as a link to a video featuring her cheering fans. Rapinoe posted a photo of Bird's Seattle Storm profile. It lists her WNBA accomplishments.
Bird and Rapinoe met at the Olympic Games leading up to the Rio Olympics 2016. Olympic athletes are often asked to pose for patriotic hot shots. Rapinoe and Bird were preparing for a photo shoot, when they met. Rapinoe asked Bird for a secret. Bird was stumped. Rapinoe explained that Sue wasn't an open book. This inspired Bird.
Granato und Ferraro
Ray Ferraro & Cammigranato were two of the most famous sports stars in history. Ferraro played 18 NHL seasons and was a Stanley Cup Champion. Granato won the 1998 Olympic women’s hockey gold medal. Granato is now a retired professional hockey player. Granato is married to Ferraro, and they have two children.
Granato, who was the captain of the 1998 U.S. women’s ice hockey team, was inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame 2010. Ferraro played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League and scored 40 goals twice. Ferraro ended his career scoring 408 goals, 490 assists, and 898 point.
Agassi and Graf
For many years, Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi have been a couple of elite players in tennis. They met in 1999 after they both won the same Roland Garros tournament. They met in 1999, and they were soon married. Jaden and Jaz, their two children are now grown up. Graf's mom moved to Las Vegas in 2013 with Peter, after Peter's sudden death. Graf now uses Stefanie Graf.
The couple had a love life before they married and Graf dated racing driver Michael Bartels for two years before getting married to Agassi. Brooke Shields, Agassi's girlfriend, was his bride before his 1997 marriage. Their intimate relationship was so well-known that she took photographs of him before the wedding. She commented on Agassi's legs, saying that "the legs" were perfect. But the two split in 1998, but they reconnected in 2001. When they met, Graf was in a tennis tournament, and the two practiced together. Graf and Agassi discovered that they shared many things, but also had their own differences.