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Mike Zimmer of the Cowboys and his model girlfriend Katarina Miketin get engaged

Mike Zimmer is starting the new year with an important milestone.

The Cowboys defensive coordinator is engaged to his model girlfriend Katarina Miketin, who shared the exciting news in an Instagram post on Thursday.

“Five years ago they told us we had to meet… God knew what he was doing. I thank him for you, my best friend…so of course I said YES!” Miketin exclaimed in the post’s caption.

Mike Zimmer and his girlfriend Katarina Miketin announced their engagement in January 2025. Katarina Elizabeth/Instagram

The social media slideshow chronicles several moments of the couple’s relationship and ends with Miketin showing off her stunning diamond ring.

Zimmer and Miketin confirmed their romance in 2021 after months of speculation.

The coach was previously married. His wife Vikki died unexpectedly of natural causes in 2009 at the age of 50.

Katarina Miketin revealed the exciting engagement news in an Instagram slideshow. Katarina Elizabeth/Instagram
The model showed off her stunning diamond ring in the Instagram slideshow. Katarina Elizabeth/Instagram

A bike and book lover, Miketin has been featured on the cover of Maxim and has 400,000 followers on Instagram.

Miketin, who is reportedly 42 years old, shared Vikings-related posts on her page back in 2018, when Zimmer served as Minnesota’s head coach.

Zimmer, 68, coached the Vikings from 2014 to 2021. He was fired after his eighth season at the helm.

Mike Zimmer was the Vikings’ head coach from 2014 to 2021. Getty Images

Zimmer entered the college ranks in 2022 as a consultant/analyst at Jackson State under head coach Deion Sanders.

He followed Sanders to Colorado the following year and served in the same role.

Following Dan Quinn’s departure from Dallas following the 2023 season when he was hired as the Commanders’ head coach, Zimmer was named the team’s new defensive coordinator.

Mike Zimmer is in his first season as the Cowboys’ defensive coordinator. Getty Images

He previously worked in Dallas from 2000 to 2006.

The Cowboys will host Quinn and the Commanders in Sunday’s regular-season finale to end a disappointing season.

Dallas has been impacted by injuries to key players, including star quarterback Dak Prescott, who was out for the season in November.

They enter Sunday’s game at 7-9.

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