↑ "This Olympian Just Got Engaged To Her Girlfriend In Rio"."Rio 2016: Olympic athlete Isadora Cerullo gets engaged to girlfriend on rugby field | People | News". ↑ "This Volunteer Proposing To Her Girlfriend In Rio Will Melt Your Cold Heart".↑ "Rio 2016: Brazilian rugby player accepts surprise on-field marriage proposal after 7s final"."Rio 2016 hosts Brazil name Olympic squads". ↑ "Philadelphia Women's Rugby Football Club".↑ "Olympics 2016: How an American turned down Columbia's med school to play rugby for Brazil".↑ "Isadora Cerullo | Columbia Daily Spectator"."Former Columbia Rugby player is proposed to at the Rio Olympics - Columbia Daily Spectator". "Foreign athletes use Brazilian connections to make it to Rio - Sports - Providence, RI". "ROAD TO RIO | Belmont's Brian Baker hopes next week starts Olympic medal epoch | American Sports Network". "Brazil recruited athletes from around the world to play in the Olympics". The proposal was widely reported in the media, with Cerullo being the first athlete to accept a marriage proposal at the Olympics. Personal lifeįollowing the final of the women's rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cerullo's partner of two years, Marjorie Yuri Enya, walked onto the field at Deodoro Stadium and publicly asked Cerullo to marry her. Brazil's women's rugby team placed ninth at the 2016 Olympics. She was selected for the Brazil women's rugby sevens team to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Brazil women's national rugby sevens team. Cerullo moved to São Paulo to play rugby professionally. CareerĬerullo was recruited to play internationally while a member of Philadelphia Women's Rugby Football Club. While a student at Columbia, she worked as an emergency medical technician. She went on to attend Columbia University to study medicine and was a member of the rugby team and a writer for the Columbia Daily Spectator, graduating in 2013. Enloe High School, where she was a member of the varsity soccer and cross country teams. Cerullo graduated in 2009 from William G. She is a dual citizen of the United States and Brazil. She is one of four children and a triplet, with two brothers the same age and one older brother. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Brazil in the last years of the country’s military dictatorship which lasted from 1964 to 1985. Early life and educationĬerullo was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. Isadora Cerullo (born March 24, 1991) is a Brazilian-American rugby sevens player.