Topline. M innesota Gov. Tim Walz has attributed his early success in politics to his local reputation as a high school football coach, culminating in a state championship in the late 1990s—a ...

Minnesota governor Tim Walz waltzed onto the bleachers at Mankato West High School on Friday night to watch a team he once coached as an assistant play a big rivalry game. Walz's appearance also ...

April 1964: Tim Walz born in West Point, Nebraska. Walz was born April 6, 1964 in West Point, Nebraska. The 60-year-old Minnesota governor grew up in Nebraska, graduating from Butte High School in ...

Walz' coaching career didn't start in Minnesota. He previously coached football as well as girls basketball at Alliance High School in Nebraska.. A native of West Point, Nebraska, Walz ran for ...

Minnesota governor Tim Walz waltzed onto the bleachers at Mankato West High School on Friday night to watch a team he once coached as an assistant play a big rivalry game. Walz’s appearance also ...

Tim Walz allegedly had an active hand in convincing a high school football player dealing with alcohol abuse to keep playing football, according to The Ringer.

Walz left his post at the school in 2006 to pursue a political career. Tim Walz played football in high school — and years later received the support of the players he coached.

But Walz’s former students at Mankato West High School, where he taught geography for over 10 years, aren’t all that surprised that he has become an overnight sensation.

S ome 25 years before Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz became Kamala Harris' running mate, he was picked to serve as a faculty advisor for a Minnesota high school's Gay-Straight Alliance--the first club of ...