Michele Tafoya Family: All About Husband Mark Vandersall and Kids
Tafoya will face Democratic Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan in the general election for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat.
Michele Tafoya, the former NFL sideline reporter, secured the Republican nomination in Minnesota's Senate race on Tuesday, defeating party-backed candidate Adam Schwarze and Royce White. She will now face Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, a Democrat, in the general election. Tafoya, who began her broadcasting career with CBS Sports in 1994, had a successful 22-year career, covering four Super Bowls and holding the record for most NFL sideline games.
She retired from NBC in 2022 after Super Bowl LVI. Tafoya, born on December 17, 1964, in Manhattan Beach, California, holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She met her husband, Mark Vandersall, in 1993 while working at Minnesota radio station KFAN-AM. Vandersall, a finance graduate from the University of Minnesota, works as a private wealth advisor in Edina, Minnesota. The couple has two children: Tyler, born in 2005, and adopted daughter Olivia, adopted in 2009.
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