Dallas Cowboys’ Mike Zimmer engaged to model and ‘best friend’

Longtime NFL coach Mike Zimmer has kicked off 2025 in spectacular style!

On Friday, Jan. 3, model Katarina Miketin announced that she had “said Yes!” to the 68-year-old Dallas Cowboys coach in a romantic Instagram post set to the tune “I Cross My Heart” by George Strait.

“Five years ago they told us we needed to meet…God knew what He was doing. I thank Him for you, my best friend…so, of course,” Miketin, 42, added in her caption.

Zimmer was previously married but his wife, Vikki died unexpectedly of natural causes on Oct. 8., 2009 at the age of 50, per the Minnesota Star Tribune. Following her death he told ESPN.com, “She was the sweetest, kindest, most caring person who’d never say a bad word about anybody.”

The news also comes two years after Zimmer’s son Adam was tragically found dead inside his Minnesota home in November 2022 at 38. This came after local police officers performed a welfare check a few days prior. His cause of death was later confirmed as chronic alcohol abuse.

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Adam’s sister and Mike’s daughter, Corri Zimmer White shared a heartbreaking post on the loss via Instagram on Nov. 1. 2002, calling her brother “The kindest, sweetest, family loving, sports obsessed soul there ever was.”

During a December 2024 Dallas Cowboys press conference, per athlonsports.com, Zimmer called his son — who was an assistant coach for the Cincinnati Bengals — a “terrific” kid.

Fighting back tears, he said: “He was smart, loved football. He would’ve given his left arm to do this. I know he’s upstairs looking down on me cheering every Sunday.”