Isaac Hodgins will get engaged following Oregon State’s Spring Recreation


Beavers: Isaac Hodgins will get engaged following Oregon State’s Spring Recreation initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Northwest

After the conclusion of the 2021 Oregon State spring soccer season, this system saved the perfect for final.

With the workforce huddled at midfield, junior defensive deal with Isaac Hodgins bought down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend Taylor Lawson, a senior gymnast at Stanford.

After all, she stated sure.

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“It has been a number of weeks now within the works,” he defined after proposing to Lawson. “Simply speaking about it, fascinated with it with Isaiah [Hodgins]. Simply [talking] with my entire household [and] seeing what the perfect path to be was.”

A couple of week earlier than the Spring Recreation, Hodgins introduced the thought as much as Jonathan Smith, after which this system started planning the logistics to make it doable.

“[Hodgins] got here in and began speaking about it,” remembers Smith. “He had a imaginative and prescient for what he wished to happen so it was a few week in the past we began to map [it] out.” 

“Introduced it to Coach Smith final week, him and DVD [Dan Van De Riet, Director of Football Operations] helped me loads with every part,” added Hodgins, who stated he felt “blessed.” 

The plan was executed to perfection, with Hodgins having his mom, father, sister, Taylor’s mother, and a few buddies within the stands; all who knew moreover the bride-to-be. 

“It was a shock,” defined Lawson. “I used to be type of questioning like ‘Oh, I am going onto the sphere for photos? Okay, cool,’ however every part was a shock. I am so completely satisfied and excited.”

The couple has been courting for “virtually three months” after assembly within the Bay Space earlier this 12 months. 

“We’re each Christians so… we normally transfer type of quick as a result of we bought to maintain the wedding mattress pure,” joked Hodgins. 

“She was within the Bay Space, type of heard about her randomly, discovered her on Instagram one way or the other, two weeks later despatched her a dm and it was off to the races.” 

Whereas Hodgins was all smiles after getting her reply, he was a nervous wreck since waking up this morning.

“I used to be nervous from 5 am the second I awoke,” he stated. “I used to be nervous in regards to the Spring Recreation and this [so] it compounded nervousness. I wasn’t nervous after everyone began celebrating. 

“I used to be simply fascinated with it loads however I used to be in a position to [focus on] enterprise and focus on my sport.”

When the plan was being hatched, Lawson was not the one one shocked to listen to about Hodgins’ plan.

“Plenty of dudes appeared shocked,” he stated. “Even within the locker room, a pair days main up, some overheard me saying I used to be going to suggest and had been like ‘You bought a girlfriend?’ 

“They had been simply shocked about the entire thing.”

Hodgins advised his fellow defensive linemen forward of the occasion however most of his teammates discovered the identical time Taylor did.

Congrats to the completely satisfied couple!! 



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