Shawn Johnson’s boyfriend Ryan Edwards, a Des Moines born and breed met Shawn at the gym in college. Both love sports and live for it. He played defensive back for the University of Iowa football team.
Everybody knows Shawn Johnson once she became famous since her 2008 Olympic games. She won gold at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics for the balance beam and won silver for all-around, floor exercise, and competition. Shawn was also the 2007 and 2008 U.S. all-around champion, as well as the 2007 all-around World Champion.
She is a humble lady and never left her beloved Iowa. She appeared on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars. After that ended in 2009, she came back to Des Moines area where she kept on training for the 2012 US team. Evenhough she had a knee injury untreated while skiing which sabotaged her plans, all that time in the gym was not a waste of time! We all know she retired in gymnastics (she described her first Opening Ceremony in London as a non-athlete as bittersweet) but is filling her free time with her sweet Ryan.
People saw them at the Twilight premiere in June of 2010, where Edwards was tagged as, “a friend from Iowa.” She then posted a message on Twitter sending a pic and saying, “MY Hawkeye 🙂 Love him <3.” Later, she said during an interview with the Des Moines Register in September of 2010:
”It’s great to have him. He gives me a life outside of gymnastics and a distraction, and he’s my biggest supporter and cheerleader and he keeps me grounded. He’s an amazing athlete and he works out every day, and we have that in common.”
Shawn Johnson, and her mother, Teri Johnson, were in California for the Wii Games: Summer 2010 National Championship, and she was the event’s ambassador.
The question in my mind is if Shawn is still dating Ryan Edwards, did they broke up, because on Ryan’s Titter he posted a photo on him as his girl who is not Shawn any luck she is his sister?
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