Megan Rapinoe’s Future Wife: Everything To Know About Her Relationship With Fiancée Sue Bird

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Image Credit: Gregory Pace/Shutterstock Megan Rapinoe, a World Cup-winning shot player, is engaged to Sue Bird. Sue Bird is a 4-time WNBA champion, a 13-time WNBA All-Star, and a 5-time Olympic Gold Medalist. Megan and Sue became engaged successful 2020.

The 2023 Women’s World Cup kicks disconnected connected July 20, opening a period of aggravated shot action. For Megan Rapinoe, it’s her past showing astatine the FIFA World Cup, arsenic the midfielder and face of US Women’s Soccer has announced she volition discontinue aft the extremity of the 2023 NWSL play successful October. After that, Megan, 38, yet mightiness person clip to locomotion down the aisle with her fiancée, Sue Bird.

Sue, 42, and Megan person been engaged for years, and thing would marque their aboriginal nuptials amended than different World Cup trophy connected their mantle. Expect Sue to beryllium successful the stands of the Australia-New Zealand stadiums erstwhile Megan plays alongside her USWNT teammates. But for those who don’t cognize thing astir Megan’s No. 1 fan, work connected to find retired more.

Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird (Gregory Pace/Shutterstock)

Who Is Megan Rapinoe’s fiancée, Sue Bird?

Suzanne Brigit Bird (b. Oct. 16, 1980) is simply a erstwhile WNBA subordinate and a highly-decorated hoops player. The Long Island autochthonal played for the University of Connecticut, helping the Huskies triumph 2 NCAA championships during her tenure. The Seattle Storm picked Sue arsenic the wide No. 1 prime successful the WNBA Draft, and she would play with the squad for twenty seasons. During that tenure, she would triumph the WNBA Championship 4 times and beryllium named an All-Star 13-times.

In June 2022, she announced that she would discontinue from playing pro hoops pursuing the 2022-23 season. Her vocation came to a adjacent successful September of that twelvemonth erstwhile the Storm mislaid successful the playoffs to the Las Vegas Aces.

“I’m arrogant of everything we’ve accomplished here,” she said aft the game, per ESPN. “Of people I’m sad, but there’s happiness too, to beryllium capable to person a infinitesimal similar that with the fans, to person them chant the mode they did. I cognize the tears don’t look similar blessed tears, but there’s a batch of happiness.”

Sue leans successful to springiness Megan a buss (BPI/Shutterstock)

Sue is besides the WNBA’s all-time person successful assists and vocation starts and, astatine the time, the lone subordinate successful the league to person appeared successful 500 vocation games. Sue has besides helped Team USA win 5 consecutive Olympic Gold Medals. Essentially, she’s 1 of the champion to ever play the game.

“It’s been great,” Sue told Insider astir retirement. “Really enjoyable kinda doing what I wanna bash erstwhile I wanna bash it.” Megan would accidental that Sue’s caller beingness is causing “a batch of jealously.”

Shortly aft Megan announced that she was retiring astatine the extremity of the 2023 NWSL season, she spoke with reporters aft practicing successful Seattle, revealing that her fiancée was successful Hawaii, per Insider. “I’m like, ‘I’m sorry, are you getting paid to spell to Hawaii? What’s happening? Is this what it’s gonna beryllium like?’ “Have amusive this year, you guys. Actually, it turns retired I’m not coming back. Just kidding!”

When Did Sue Bird & Megan Rapino Get Together?

Megan and Sue began dating sometime successful 2017. They archetypal met portion backstage astatine a photograph sprout for the 2016 Rio Olympics, per NBC Sports. “She was successful her hoops uniform, and she had her hairsbreadth down,” Megan told NBC. “We kinda crossed, and she was like, ‘Oh, hey! Ready for your game?’ “Sue added, “I was like, ‘ha-ha … funny.'”

Megan regretted making “such a atrocious impression” with Sue. “So dorky,” Bird teased. “I walked distant like, ‘I thought you were expected to beryllium cool?‘ We gag astir it present ’cause she was a full dork.”

Despite Megan fumbling the pickup line, the 2 began dating. In 2017, Sue came out. Megan proclaimed herself cheery successful a 2012 interrogation successful OUT magazine, but Sue didn’t stock that information astir her until gathering Rapino. “I’m gay. Megan’s my girlfriend. … These aren’t secrets to radical who cognize me,” the WNBA prima said successful a chat with ESPNW (h/t Bleacher Report.)

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“I don’t consciousness similar I’ve not lived my life. I deliberation radical person this presumption that if you’re not talking astir it, you indispensable beryllium hiding it similar it’s this secret. That was ne'er the lawsuit for me,” she said. As to wherefore she decided to travel retired then, she said it was “happening erstwhile it’s happening due to the fact that that’s what feels right. So adjacent though I recognize determination are radical who deliberation I should person done it sooner, it wasn’t close for maine astatine the time. I person to beryllium existent to that. It’s my journey.”

When Did Megan Rapino Propose To Sue Bird?

A representation is worthy a 1000 words, which is wherefore Sue Bird didn’t consciousness the request to constitute a caption for the Instagram station she shared successful October 2020. In the photo, she and Megan are successful an Infinity excavation – but Megan is really connected the broadside of it, down connected 1 knee. This saccharine connection photograph told the satellite Sue said “yes,” arsenic she extended her manus to her aboriginal wife.

When Are Sue & Megan Getting Married?

“It’s been large to beryllium engaged, but we really haven’t planned oregon talked astir overmuch of anything,” Sue told People 2 months aft Megan popped the question. The COVID-19 pandemic enactment a damper connected planning. “I deliberation the 1 happening we bash hold connected is that we would emotion to person our wedding erstwhile things person settled down successful presumption of COVID-19,” Sue said astatine the time, “because we privation to person a stress-free situation wherever we are not having to interest astir investigating and this and that, which is benignant of the beingness that we are surviving now.”

With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics moving successful 2021 and FIFA’s Women’s World Cup taking spot successful 2023, it’s been hard for Sue and Megan to carve retired clip to yet necktie the knot.

“It’s funny. It’s much Megan. We’re connected Megan’s schedule,” Sue said successful a 2022 interrogation with The Seattle Times (h/t Us Weekly). “My docket is unfastened successful the offseason. I got time. WNBA is lone successful the summer. I got time. We’re fundamentally waiting to spot what Megan’s shot aboriginal holds, and past we’ll spell connected that. The shot docket is simply a nightmare. They virtually play each year. If I had to conjecture a year, I deliberation the World Cup is 2023 for them. It’ll astir apt beryllium aft that. It’s purely based connected schedule. It’s not adjacent what we want. If it was up to us, we would person done it a twelvemonth ago.”

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