Four-Time Olympian Allison Schmitt Announces Engagement to Gavin Walker [Video]

Olympic champion swimmer Allison Schmitt announced her engagement to Gavin Walker via Instagram on Tuesday.

“Cheers to planning our most special day of 2025,” Schmitt wrote in the announcement.

The couple has been together for over a year, first going public on social media in August 2023.

The engagement was pulled off with the help of the Phelps family, as Michael and Nicole Phelps’ four young kids wore shirts displaying the words “will you marry me?” for the occasion.

Schmitt is a four-time Olympian and ten-time Olympic medalist, qualifying for her first Games in 2008. Over the course of her Olympic career, Schmitt accumulated four gold medals, three silver and three bronze.

Three of her golds came in 2012 at the London Games when she won the 200 freestyle individually, 4×100 medley relay and 4×200 freestyle relay.

Schmitt competed for the University of Georgia Bulldogs beginning in the fall of 2008, becoming a six-time NCAA individual champion over …