High school sports, roses before state tournaments and a proposal during a deer hunt are notable moments in the love story of two recent Powell High School graduates.

Kabrie Cannon, who graduated in 2022, and 2021 grad Lane Franks have known each other through their families since they were little, but competing together in cross country made them friends.

When Franks needed a winter formal date he thought of Cannon, so he asked her for her phone number in the high school commons. 

After talking for a while, Franks went ahead with the traditional winter formal proposal complete with a poster and flowers. Neither of them remember what the poster said but they both remember the bouquet of flowers. Cannon and Franks were on their way to state cross country when Franks asked, so Cannon’s mom had to come back for the flowers while Franks and Cannon went to state.

Two years later Cannon would be voted athlete of the year as a graduating senior.

Only months after receiving that honor her running buddy and high school sweetheart proposed.

It was November in Meeteetse and Cannon was trying to get her deer.

“We’d been talking about [getting engaged] for a while, it just never happened,” Franks said. “We went ahead and we were actually hunting when it happened, trying to get Kabrie a deer and she walked down the river bottom with me and I did it right there in the river bottom in Meeteetse, Wyoming.”

Cannon didn’t end up getting her deer until later that season, they were too excited to finish the hunt. Franks said he never really had a perfect time to propose so when the opportunity showed itself he took it. 

“I was kind of ready to go get sat in our spot to go hunting,” Cannon said. “I had no clue what we were doing down at the river bottom and then when he actually [proposed] it took me a while to process the whole thing. So we were down there for a little while.”

The process of involving her family and getting her father’s permission was also kept from Cannon. So down on the river bottom Franks had to provide material evidence that her parents were on board with the engagement. Standing in hunting gear, Franks, who was already nervous from the act of proposing, had to pull out his phone and show his bride-to-be text messages that proved her parents, also high school sweethearts, were in the know. 

With that hurdle cleared, Cannon and Franks are planning an outdoor wedding in the summer. After Cannon graduates college with a degree in education and Franks becomes a journeyman electrician they hope to stay in the area where they were brought together by sports, roses and an abandoned deer hunt.