Mia Atkins is a TV host in Charlotte who is the fiancee of American Olympic gymnast Sam Mikulak.
Instagram/Getty American Olympic gymnast Sam Mikulak is engaged to Charlotte TV host Mia Atkins. Mia Atkins is a TV host in Charlotte who is the fiancee of American Olympic gymnast Sam Mikulak. He is competing in the Olympics for a third time and plans to retire after Tokyo ahead of their wedding. “He’s going to take some time off first,” Atkins told WCNC, adding that he plans to move to North Carolina to live with her. “This has been his whole life. He’s been doing gymnastics since he was two years old and has never stopped.”But he plans to go back to school to study sports psychology because that’s something over the past year with all the hardships that everybody has gone through, him specifically, as an athlete he realizes that he needs to be a resource for people going through what he has gone through.” Atkins added, “He said he’s feeling great. He said he’s ready. He’s feeling excited about it! I’m just proud to be with him and just cheer him on, then I’m proud to have him back with me and not lose him all the time like I do right now.” Here’s what you need to know about Mia Atkins, Sam Mikulak’s girlfriend: A post shared by MIA ATKINS (@miaatkinstv) Atkins and Mikulak met in 2016 after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics through one of her sorority sister’s at Arizona State University. Her stepbrother was a teammate of Mikulak, Atkins told the Charlotte Observer. Mikulak was on a gymnastics tour and ended up hanging out at the Alpha Phi sorority with Atkins. “I didn’t know a single thing about gymnastics. Nothing,” Atkins told the Observer. “I didn’t care about sports at all. It was just not my thing.” She said after they clicked during conversation at the college party, he invited her to his show the next day, and she was shocked by his “crazy flips.” She told the newspaper, “I still have I think some videos on my phone from when I went and saw that show, of me being like, ‘Ohh my gosh. Who is this guy?’” They soon began dating. He credits her with helping balance his life, telling TeamUSA.org, “In stressful times, it’s something that I can look towards and gives me a little more energy and a little more confidence and just makes me a little happier.” Read More From Heavy Summer Rappaport’s Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know A post shared by MIA ATKINS (@miaatkinstv) Mikulak proposed to Atkins on Catalina Island in California in July 2020.
