College Mascot Gets Down on One Knee

Sir Winsalot, Queens College’s mascot, lived up to his reputation as a gallant knight when the man in the suit popped the question to his girlfriend on  April 26, their six-month anniversary.
Shlomo Glowitz, a junior, proposed to his girlfriend, Orly English, a sophomore, in a stunt disguised as a school spirit award ceremony for Sir Winsalot between the games of Queens College’s softball doubleheader against Bridgeport University.
“The first time I saw her I knew she was the one for me and every day since, she just confirmed it,” said Glowitz.
Glowitz suited up in the notoriously stuffy foam costume and stepped outside into 90-degree weather, drawing encouragement from friends and family who had come to watch.
Rachel Walter of the athletics department, along with Jessica Sanchez, Brittany Fahrety and Jennifer Robbins of the women’s basketball team, cooked up the idea after hearing about the Cincinnati native’s intentions to propose.
“Rachel was the brains. She came up with everything,” said Glowitz. “She calls me the knight in shining armor.”
Jonathan Cohen, a friend of Glowitz’s, said, “He’s a chill guy who’s always up for a good time. He just upped the ante.”
As part of the faux award ceremony, three fans were selected “at random” to throw the “perfect pitch.” English was chosen last.
The rules of the game were simple: Each student would get three chances to throw a softball over home plate. The first two students each got their three balls from Winsalot and successfully got at least one pitch over the plate. Then came the moment. English stepped up to the pitcher’s mound for her first throw and turned to look at her friends who had all gathered on the field.
“Can I get some fans?” she asked, to which her comrades responded with loud cheers.
English threw the first two pitches overhand, but when she turned to Sir Winsalot for the final ball, he faked a moment of clumsiness and dropped it. As English reached down to get the softball, Glowitz pretended to get the ball as well, but instead dropped to one knee and whipped off his helmet to propose to English with the ring he had hidden up the costume’s sleeve.
As his crimson cape billowed in the breeze, English could only cover her mouth in shock before saying yes.
“I was very surprised. I was literally passing out,” said English.
As they walked off the field, friends and kin crowded the happy couple with smiles and their congratulations.
“I’m the blabbermouth. I was just told to be here,” said Eddie English, Orly’s father. “I expected it, but I just didn’t know when. He fits right in with our family. We’re all around 6’2.”
Dov Schonbrun, another friend who had come to witness the proposal, said, “We wanted to paint ‘Will you marry me’ on our stomachs, but that didn’t work out.”
English and Glowitz were introduced to each other by mutual friends at QC in early October.
“A week after we met, we were already an inseparable couple and we have loved each other ever since,” said English.
“Our relationship has been somewhat of a whirlwind fairy tale,” she said. “The fact that he proposed only made our dreams come true and hopefully it will be the start of our very own happily ever after.”

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