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Luverne High School students Brady Bork and Sarah Stegenga have found themselves in the national limelight after their promposal went viral at the Cardinal boys’ state hockey appearance.
The couple have been dating for three months and had discussed prom plans, but to be creative, Bork jotted a formal prom request on the tape wrapped around the blade of his spare stick.
Ahead of the Class A quarterfinal between No. 2 Hermantown and unseeded Luverne, the Cardinal senior skated to the camera at the blue line and raised his stick, unveiling the prom proposal, "Hey Sarah, prom?"
The proposal hit social media, and Stegenga shortly thereafter responded on Twitter, “I am Sarah and I said yes!” The word was drawn in bubble letters on the blade of a taped hockey stick.
It was a sweet story amid the Cardinals’ brutal 6-0 loss in Wednesday’s game.
The Luverne team skated to their season’s end the next day with a 7-3 loss to Alexandria in the consolation semifinals.
But the local players and fans were just happy to be part of the state hockey scene, and the Bork-Stegenga promposal kept circulating on social media and then among Twin Cities newspapers and TV news stations.
“That’s a victory for the day,” head coach Phil Paquette later said after learning Sarah had said “yes.”
Long after the team and fan buses returned home, the promposal surfaced in new places online and in print.
“Almost every social media platform I use has been littered with pictures from it so it would’ve been hard to not pay attention,” Bork said.
Stegenga, too, has lost track of how many times their story circulated.
“I have really enjoyed them all, and how they’ve all shared different parts of the story,” she said.
“The CBS story has been my favorite. I love that it had a focus on the actual game (the real reason we were all there), and how proud so many people are of Brady and his incredible hockey career.”
The latest was Tuesday afternoon when ESPN interviewed the couple in a live online format.
For their part, Bork and Stegenga say they’re just happy to have been part of a light-hearted story and they’re looking to Luverne’s prom on April 29.
“It has been fun,” Bork said about the media attention. “If you have an idea that you like, go for it; it might just go viral.”
Stegenga agreed. “It’s been fun to experience a once-in-a-lifetime kind of fame,” she said. “If you ever get an experience like this, just take it all in and enjoy the moment.”