Simone Biles, gymnastics’ most decorated Olympian, is on the roster for the Pacers Foundation Charity Softball Classic at Victory Field in Indianapolis on Monday, August 24, 2026. She’ll play for Team Haliburton, the side captained by Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton, alongside Indianapolis Colts and Pacers players and other athletes and celebrities; her husband, Colts safety Jonathan Owens, is also on the roster. Gates open at 6 p.m. ET, with first pitch set for 7 p.m.
No single confirmed news event has been established as the cause of the August 24 search-interest spike. Based on timing, the softball game is the most likely proximate driver, while Biles’ Dominican Republic vacation photos posted the day before are another plausible contemporaneous driver; those are inferences from timing, not confirmed causal findings.
Key facts
- Event: Pacers Foundation Charity Softball Classic
- When: Monday, August 24, 2026 — gates open 6 p.m. ET, first pitch 7 p.m.
- Where: Victory Field, Indianapolis
- Biles plays for: Team Haliburton, captained by Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton
- Benefits: Drive & Dish, a Pacers Foundation program addressing youth food insecurity in Indiana
Why Indianapolis
Biles has been a regular presence around the Colts this summer because of her husband, NFL safety Jonathan Owens. Owens signed a one-year deal with the Colts in March 2026, his eighth NFL season, after two years with the Chicago Bears and earlier stints with the Green Bay Packers and the Houston Texans. The couple is basing itself in Indianapolis for the 2026 season, though their longer-term home reportedly remains in Spring, Texas.
The softball game is a fundraiser benefiting Drive & Dish, a Pacers Foundation program aimed at youth food insecurity across Indiana.
A busy, very public summer
Biles has drawn heavy attention online in the days leading into Monday’s game. On Saturday, August 22, she went viral for her sideline outfit at the Colts’ preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons — a cropped Colts tank top, oversized parachute-style pants and a quilted Chanel bag — which set off a wave of fan and sports-media commentary. The next day, she posted vacation photos from a trip to the Dominican Republic, including shots on a boat, a backhand spring into the water and cave-diving, with a caption that read “Desperately looking for a vacation home,” and calling the trip her last getaway before Owens’ season begins in September. She’s also posted regularly through Colts training camp, including a joint Instagram reel with Owens on August 17. She’s said she is “beyond proud” of him for making the move to Indianapolis.
Biles’ June hospitalization
In early June 2026, Biles said on Instagram she’d been hospitalized in what she called one of the most frightening experiences of her life, writing that “almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card.” In between, on July 15, the couple appeared together at the ESPY Awards, where Biles presented the Best Team award to the New York Knicks. Then, on July 22 — Owens’ 31st birthday — he accompanied her to a medical procedure. She has not shared what caused the hospitalization or the procedure, or whether the two were connected.
Addressing the rumors
Biles has also continued to push back publicly on recurring pregnancy rumors, which have recurred for years, have included AI-generated fake images, and flared up again this summer after she congratulated a friend on a real pregnancy online. She has repeatedly and directly denied them, saying at one point: “I am not pregnant. I never was pregnant; therefore, I never had a baby. Please stop asking me and falling for AI” — a reference to those fakes.
Timeline
- June 2026 | Biles says on Instagram she was hospitalized, calling it one of the most frightening experiences of her life
- July 15, 2026 | Biles and Owens attend the ESPY Awards, where she presents the Best Team award to the New York Knicks
- July 22, 2026 | Owens takes Biles to a follow-up medical procedure, on his 31st birthday
- August 17, 2026 | Biles and Owens post a joint Instagram reel from Colts training camp
- August 22, 2026 | Biles’ sideline outfit at the Colts’ preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons goes viral
- August 23, 2026 | Biles posts vacation photos from a trip to the Dominican Republic
- August 24, 2026 | Biles is scheduled to play in the Pacers Foundation Charity Softball Classic at Victory Field
For now, the next stop is Victory Field, where Biles will trade the gym floor for a softball diamond in support of a cause built around feeding kids across Indiana — one more entry in a summer that has kept her in the public eye almost constantly.