Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes’ fiancée Brittany Matthews has built her own sports empire as a professional soccer player, part owner of a women’s soccer team, and a fitness guru
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- Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is taking on his second Super Bowl on Sunday.
- His fiancée Brittany Matthews has carved out her own athletic career in Kansas City.
- She’s also pregnant with the couple’s first child and is due later this year.
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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is headed to his second Super Bowl in two years on Sunday, and his high-school sweetheart and fiancée Brittany Matthews will be watching from the stands.
Matthews has been a dedicated Chiefs fan since Mahomes joined the team in 2017, and was by his side when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl last year. She regularly live-tweets games and shares Instagram stories showing her screaming in celebration over wins.
But outside of football, Matthews has created an athletic empire of her own by playing professional soccer in Europe and launching her own fitness company.
Together Mahomes and Matthews, who have been together since they were teens, are an athletic powerhouse.
Mahomes and Matthews started dating when they were in high school in Whitehouse, Texas
Mahomes, 24, and Matthews, 25, met in the while attending Whitehouse High School in Texas. According to Yahoo Sports, the pair started dating when Mahomes was in 10th grade.
After Matthews graduated in 2013, she went on to play college soccer at the nearby University of Texas at Tyler, while Mahomes, who graduated in 2014, went to Texas Tech University – 440 miles away in Lubbock – to play college football and baseball.
When Mahomes signed to the Chiefs, Matthews signed on to play soccer in Iceland
The pair stayed together through the long distance. The Kansas City Chiefs selected Mahomes in the first round of the NFL Draft in April 2017. Matthews, meanwhile, graduated with a kinesiology degree and signed on to play soccer professionally with UMF Afturelding/Fram in Iceland in May 2017.
“Every coach I have had at UT Tyler made a huge impact on my love for this game and my decision to play professional soccer,” Matthews told the Tyler Morning Telegraph. “An opportunity opened up for me in Iceland and I could never pass up such an amazing experience to go do what I love.”
It’s unclear how long Matthews lived in Iceland, but it appears to be less than a year. Her team won its league in September 2017, according to Matthews’ Instagram, and by October 2017 she was in Kansas City.
Now they’re both pursuing their athletic dreams in Kansas City
The pair document their relationship on Instagram, and are pursuing their own athletic dreams.
In his first season as a starter for the Chiefs in 2018, Mahomes completed 5,097 yards and 50 touchdowns, and was named the NFL’s MVP for the season.
Matthews became a certified fitness trainer, and in 2019, launched Brittany Lynne Fitness, a website that offers training programs and fitness merchandise designed by Matthews.
“I have experience with all levels of fitness and have carried that experience with me to create exercise programs for people at all stages on their fitness journey,” she wrote on the website. Her program, she continued, consists of “working hard, staying dedicated, not making excuses, and most of all, no BS!”
She also became a part owner of Kansas City’s new women’s soccer team when the National Women’s Soccer League expanded to the city in December.
“I have a true level of appreciation for what these incredible women do on a daily basis,” Matthews said about the new team in a statement to the Topeka Capital-Journal. “We have the greatest fans and community here in KC and I can’t wait to huddle around this team.”
Mahomes proposed to Matthews in September 2020, after receiving a Super Bowl ring
Matthews and Mahomes attended the Chiefs’ Super Bowl ring ceremony together on September 1, 2020, during which Mahomes surprised his high school sweetheart with an engagement proposal.
Matthews, who had celebrated her birthday a day earlier, posted a photo of a section of the stadium that had been blocked off, covered in roses, with a sign that said “Will you marry me?” She later posted a photo of her ring.
Mathews and Mahomes announced they were having a baby shortly after getting engaged
On September 29, 2020, Matthews and Mahomes announced that they’re having a baby, and shared images of the ultrasound Instagram.
In October 2020 they held a gender reveal party and announced that they’re having a baby girl.
Mahomes and Matthews want to stay in Kansas City for a ‘long, long time’
The couple bought a house in Kansas City in 2019, spending $1.925 million in the city’s Mission Hills neighborhood. The pair showed the house off on Bleacher Report and highlighted Mahomes’ custom shoe gallery, where he stores around 180 pairs of shoes.
In the video, Mahomes and Matthews explained their love for Kansas City.
“Setting down roots in Kansas City was huge for us. I think the people are what we love the most about Kansas City,” Mahomes said. “We’re trying to be here for a long, long time.”
The couple spends the offseason in Kansas City and recently launched a foundation to help underprivileged youth.
Mahomes told USA Today: “The fans come out every single week and show passion and love for us and our team and what we’re doing here, so for me, I want to be back in the community, giving back. And just be a part of it, to show the same love and passion to them.”
Ahead of the Super Bowl last year, Mahomes told reporters he “ended up in the perfect place” when he was drafted by the Chiefs.
“I hope I get to play the rest of my career there now,” he told ESPN. “I mean, just the people and how they accept you and how they care about you more as a person than they do as a player and how much passion they have for the Kansas City Chiefs, it’s special and it’s somewhere I want to be for the rest of my career.”
In July 2020, Mahomes signed a 12-year extension with the Chiefs worth up to $503 million.
How Patrick Mahomes Scored the Perfect Teammate in Pregnant Fiancée Brittany Matthews
Sometimes the high school QB and his cheerleader girlfriend end up together. Rarely do they become one of sports’ biggest power couples, but such is the tale of Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Matthews.
Six years before he led his team to a 31-20 victory in Super Bowl LIV, the three-sport Whitehouse High School athlete (a star quarterback, he also played basketball and baseball) was just another 18-year-old trying to dream up an Insta-worthy promposal for his cheerleader girlfriend of more than two years.
He’d done the whole scrawl-prom?-all-over-her-car thing for her senior year in 2013, “SCARING the crap out of me,” Brittany Matthews shared on her feed at the time. And gone “cute and simple” with a cookie cake invite to his winter formal later that year. So for 2014’s big dance, he landed on a golf theme, teeing up his ask with a homemade sign and enough balls to spell out his simple query.
Madly in love, as evidenced by the number of times they used social media to brag on one another’s accomplishments, the teens truly thought they had what it took to go the distance.
Never mind that he was set to lead the Texas Tech University Red Raiders, some 450 miles from where she was already playing soccer at the University of Texas-Tyler. “This boy has my whole heart!” she explained in one November 2013 snap. “So freaking proud of youu! I love you so much!”
Where countless idealistic college freshman have failed, Mahomes and his high school sweetheart have cruised to an easy victory.
Some seven months after the Kansas City Chiefs QB snagged his (perhaps, first) world championship, he turned up at Arrowhead Stadium to get his ring and give away another. “On a day that was meant to celebrate you, you turned it into celebrating us,” Matthews proclaimed of the Sept. 1 proposal that saw him upgrading his teenage machinations to a plan more befitting his status as the NFL’s new wunderkind.
A lit-up marquee and a suite dripping with flowers and candlelight replaced handwritten signs and Mrs. Fields confections, tickets to prom swapped out for a behemoth of an emerald-cut diamond with as many carat as they’d spent years together. The words he “looked into my eyes and said to me at this moment” forever etched in her mind, “you made this day perfect,” Matthews wrote, “you took my entire breath away and I could not have imagined anything better.”
Except maybe that other little surprise that the 25-year-olds, born just 17 days apart in 1995, had been growing, their reveal coming exactly four weeks later with Matthews posting, “Mom & Dad, taking a small detour to the wedding.”
With the personal trainer’s due date now fast approaching and Mahomes, only four years into his professional career, playing in his second straight Super Bowl of his four-year professional career (not to mention that whole global pandemic thing making guests lists extra tricky), the couple have put a pin in wedding planning. But their future has been set for the better part of a decade.
Toasting to “a lifetime” with him on their seventh anniversary in March 2019, a full year and a half before their engagement, Matthews addressed those concerned about the speed at which they were making their way down the aisle. “To everyone that’s gonna ask when we are getting married,” she said, “the answer is whenever we want.”
These are two people, after all, with a history of making things happen for themselves.
As Mahomes was cementing his reputation as a gunslinger, becoming the Red Raiders’ third leading passer in program history and topping the nation in total offense his final two years, his girlfriend was racking up her own victories on the pitch. Signing on to play soccer at the University of Texas satellite campus “because it was close to home and I knew a few girls that played here that loved it and told me I need to join the family,” she scored a record-setting 18 goals her senior year, making her an exciting prospect for professional leagues worldwide.
Weeks after Mahomes was selected 10th in the 2017 NFL draft, cutting his college career a year short, Matthews signed a contract of her own with Iceleand’s UMF Afturelding/Fram (“I could never pass up such an amazing experience to go do what I love,” she explained), leading local station KLTV to dub the 21-year-olds “the power couple of East Texas.”
And after a year navigating some 3,000 miles worth of long distance that saw Matthews win a championship and Mahomes secure his spot as starting QB, they decided to stake their claim in western Missouri.
Joining Mahomes in his Kansas City digs, Matthews made use of her kinesiology degree, founding at-home workout brand Brittany Lynne Fitness. Explaining her transition away from professional sports, she explained on her site, “By the end of my first season, I truly began to fall in love with being in the gym more than being on the soccer field. Playing sports my whole life got me into fitness and playing in college taught me about strength training, wellness and maintaining peak fitness to perform at an elite level.”
She’s learned a bit about marketing as well. Between her Insta workouts, her partnership with clothing line Balance Athletica and game day style that regularly earns her upwards of 100,000 double-taps, she’s built up a dedicated fanbase, one loyal enough to even give her pups Steel and Silver a follow.
And while Mahomes has been putting together championship seasons, becoming the youngest Super Bowl MVP, signing record-breaking multimillion-dollar contracts and snapping up baseball teams, Matthews has been making her own money moves, joining an ownership group that’s bringing a professional women’s soccer team to the area. “I have a true level of appreciation for what these incredible women do on a daily basis,” she said in a statement. “We have the greatest fans and community here in KC and I can’t wait to huddle around this team.”
First, of course, she has some business to take care of with her own squad.
With their careers cemented, the two had already put down roots in Kansas City’s upscale Mission Hills neighborhood back in 2019, their nearly $2 million, three-bedroom spread “the first home that either of us have ever owned,” Mahomes shared in a Bleacher Report video. “Renting a house wasn’t for us, we wanted our own place.” (Plus that 10-year, $477 million contract extension isn’t going to spend itself.)
Eager to be done with their college-era roots, Mahomes adorably marveled at “just being able to nail stuff into the wall and not have to get, like, sticky tabs—like you can do whatever you want with the home now.”
So they gutted the entire thing, creating a room for Mahomes to house his impressive shoe collection (something he “literally wanted my whole entire life”) and more than enough extra space for a nursery or two. “We’re tryin’ to be here for a long, long time,” he explained of their adopted city. “That was the biggest thing of getting the house is we plan on being here for 20 years-plus.”
In other words, long enough to see their eldest daughter graduate high school and perhaps attend a few proms of her own.
“Hopefully right after the Super Bowl, I’m able to bring a little girl into this world,” Mahomes told Kansas City radio show The Drive in December, giving a sense of their parenting timeline. “And get to become a dad in the offseason and get to see that process as well.”
And as they face what might be their most challenging job yet, they’re each confident they’ve found the right teammate to tackle it with.
Noting the “negativity and hate” that the stressors of 2020 brought out in a New Year’s post, Matthews shared that navigating it alongside her love of nearly nine years “made things a little easier.” No matter the situation they find themselves in, she continued, “He’s my better half and just the greatest.”
WHO IS BRITTANY MATHEWS
Hi, my name is Brittany Matthews.
“As a Certified Personal Trainer with a four-year bachelor’s degree in kinesiology, I have experience with all levels of fitness and have carried that experience with me to create exercise programs for people at all stages on their fitness journey,” she wrote on the website.Sep 4, 2019
And I am a strong woman who is aspiring to make a positive impact on people’s health and wellness.
I am a former college soccer player who went on to play professionally in Iceland. By the end of my first season, I truly began to fall in love with being in the gym more than being on the soccer field. Playing sports my whole life got me into fitness and playing in college taught me about strength training, wellness and maintaining peak fitness to perform at an elite level.
As a Certified Personal Trainer with a four-year bachelor’s degree in kinesiology, I have experience with all levels of fitness and have carried that experience with me to create exercise programs for people at all stages on their fitness journey.
“Training like Britt” means many things – working hard, staying dedicated, not making excuses, and most of all, no BS! These programs are designed to tone, grow muscle and get STRONG. Don’t be afraid to lift heavy and push yourself!
I hope you love my programs as much as I do – let’s reach your goals together!
Patrick Lavon Mahomes II (born September 17, 1995) is an American football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He initially played college football and college baseball at Texas Tech University. Following his sophomore year, he quit baseball to focus solely on football. In his junior year, he led all NCAA Division I FBS players in multiple categories including passing yards (5,052 yards) and total touchdowns (53 touchdowns). He then entered the 2017 NFL Draft where he was the tenth overall selection by the Chiefs.
Mahomes spent his rookie season as the backup to Alex Smith. After the Chiefs traded Smith to the Washington Redskins the following season, Mahomes was named the starter. That season, Mahomes threw for 5,097 yards, 50 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions. He became the only quarterback in history to throw for over 5,000 yards in a season in both college and the NFL. He joined Peyton Manning as the only players in NFL history to throw 50 touchdown passes and 5,000 yards in a single season. For his performance in his first season as starter, he was named to the Pro Bowl, named First Team All-Pro, and won the NFL Offensive Player of the Year and NFL Most Valuable Player awards. Mahomes, along with Lamar Jackson, Cam Newton, and Steve McNair, is one of four African-American quarterbacks to win the AP MVP award.
During the 2019–20 playoffs, Mahomes led the Chiefs to Super Bowl LIV, their first Super Bowl appearance in 50 years, where they defeated the San Francisco 49ers for their first Super Bowl victory since 1970. Mahomes was awarded the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player for his performance, the second African-American quarterback to win the award after Doug Williams, and youngest overall. He is the third African-American quarterback after Doug Williams and Russell Wilson and the second youngest quarterback after Ben Roethlisberger to win the Super Bowl. In 2020, Mahomes signed a 10-year contract extension worth $477 million with another $26 million in potential bonuses, for a total of $503 million, making it the second largest known contract in sporting history.[6][7] He is the son of former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Pat Mahomes.
