Who is Michele Tafoya's husband Mark Vandersall?

NBC sports reporter Michele Tafoya is happily married to Mark Vandersall and the couple celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary in May.

Tafoya started working in sports journalism in 1994 and she has primarily reported on the NFL for the last 10 years.

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Who is Mark Vandersall?

Mark Vandersall, 50, is a sports aficionado like his wife and was marked as the 1989 all football conference player for Robbinsdale High School in his hometown of Plymouth, Minnesota.

He attended the University of Minnesota where he continued to play baseball and was named the freshman All-American pitcher by Mizuno.

Sports was a part of Vandersall's family and childhood with a sister in gymnastics and a father who was the linebacker coach at the University of Minnesota.

Vandersall took a step back from the sports limelight after graduating with a finance degree from the University of Minnesota.

He now works in Edina, Minnesota as a private wealth advisor with Ameriprise Financial Services.

Do Michele Tafoya and Mark Vandersall have children?

Michele Tafoya, 56, was working as a radio host in 1993 at the radio station KFAN-AM in Minnesota when she met Vandersall.

They got married in 2000 but had difficulty conceiving children.

Tafoya suffered two miscarriages before she became pregnant with twins through invitro-fertilization but was unable to carry the babies to term.

In 2005, Tafoya and Vandersall had their first child, Tyler Vandersall after several failed attempts to conceive.

They struggled to have another child after the birth of their son, and in 2009 they adopted their daughter, Olivia Vandersall from Columbia.

What did Michele Tafoya say about the miscarriages?

In an interview with Modern Mom, Tafoya said she took time off from work after giving birth to her son. She was 40 years old and had tried to conceive a child since she was 35.

She said she knew her "window for childbearing was closing" when she and Vandersall got married but continued to do everything she could to have a family.

After her second miscarriage, Tafoya apologized to her husband who is seven years her junior.

“After the second one, I remember apologizing to my husband, because I felt responsible," Tafoya told Sportscasting.

"I’m seven years older than he is, so I felt like my age was a factor. And it was — the science will tell you. There are biological reasons for it, and it’s as simple as that.”

She said she is grateful for their family and told Modern Mom, "That struggle to have children changed my priorities. And having my son made me want to travel less.

"Our family is complete, and I don’t want to miss anything."