PHOTO GALLERY: Polar Bear Plunge

Saturday, February 14, 2009 | 11:38 p.m. CST; updated 10:35 a.m. CST, Sunday, February 15, 2009

COLUMBIA — When Scott Drochelman and Cassie Shields participated together for the second time in the Polar Bear Plunge, a yearly fundraising event for Special Olympics Missouri, they took the plunge in more ways than one. A week before the event, which coincidentally fell on Valentine's Day this year, the couple got engaged. Unfortunately for the couple, their recent engagement didn't make the waters any warmer.

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