When I turned around, Shane was down on one knee. I know that probably made you think it was something else.’ Then, the doorbell rang, and it was a bellman with a different ring box. “After I opened it, he said, ‘I’m sorry to give you a ring. “My first gift was a little jewelry box.” Inside was a ring, but not an engagement ring. “We went back to the room after dinner to exchange Christmas presents,” Emily says. The scheme, which took place at the scenic Homestead Resort in Virginia, involved dinner, two rings, a bellman, and meticulous timing. I knew very early on.”ĭuring the 2005 winter holidays, Shane cooked up the riskiest play of his life. He was a lot of fun and very thoughtful, always surprising me with things.
And that year, we didn’t have a good season, so it wasn’t like it was all great.”Įmily concurs, adding, “He always was considerate and kind. “She saw the time that you’re gone recruiting, she saw the hours required during the season. “She’s awesome and we fit, you know? We dated for an entire football season at Mississippi State,” he says. In late 2005, Shane decided the loss of Emily’s affection was a defeat that would sting far greater than a loss to Alabama. I was always doing something sports-related.”Īfter finally connecting in November 2004, Emily and Shane dated for a year and experienced a football season together. I played football when I was in fourth grade but then didn’t play again until the eighth grade. “I played basketball and baseball growing up. Sports may have been inescapable for Shane, but he loved them deeply even in his youngest years.
He was inducted into College Football Hall of Fame in 2018. His father, Frank, first played football at Virginia Tech and later became the winningest head coach in the school’s history. She loved Mississippi State sports so much she later enrolled and majored in sports communication there.īorn in Charleston, South Carolina, Shane grew up in the eye of the college football hurricane. “We were always traveling to games and going to sporting events,” she says. For most of her childhood, her father was a Mississippi state trooper who traveled with the Mississippi State football team. I was a high school cheerleader, and I ran track,” says Emily. She is no stranger to the world of sports. “The rest is history,” he says.Į mily Beamer, 37, is a native of Starkville, Mississippi. His neighbor was happy to come to his rescue under one condition - that he join him for an evening out celebrating Emily’s birthday. During the 10-minute ride home, he ran out of gas. One night in November 2004, Shane had suffered a grueling loss to Alabama on the road and was trying to get home after returning to Starkville. “Emily will tell you that I go right up against the edge of running out of gas pretty regularly, but I have only actually run out of gas once in my entire life,” he says with a laugh.
Even then, it took an intervention to connect them. Shane didn’t broach a conversation with her until two long months later.
He was never back up there again,” says Emily. “He was in the press box that first game and then he was on the field after that. Coming up into the press box, the elevator doors open, and I see her. She was working in media relations, so she was working in the press box, too,” he says. “The very first time I saw her, I was coaching in the press box at my first home game at Mississippi State. In September 2004, an altogether different dream began taking shape, but he was so focused on coaching at Mississippi State he almost lost his chance with his now-wife, Emily. Shane Beamer’s new role as University of South Carolina head football coach is a dream come true.
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