Soccer trainer Jim Harbaugh fervently pursued now-wife Sarah Feuerborn Harbaugh earlier than they discovered love.
“When he first started talking to her, she wouldn’t talk to him. He chased her and chased her. Sarah says, to this day, if he hadn’t done that [they] wouldn’t be here,” Sarah’s brother, Marty Feuerborn, up to now instructed Kansas Town’s KCTV 5 Information.
Jim, a former professional soccer participant, in the end gained over Sarah and her circle of relatives. They wed in January 2008 earlier than welcoming 4 youngsters in combination. (Jim additionally stocks 3 older children with ex-wife Miah Harbaugh.)
“I’ve got seven kids. With the older kids, people would tell me: ‘Don’t pressure them to play sports.’ And I really wanted them to play sports and be good at them,” Jim instructed GQ in a 2017 profile. “But I listened to what people were saying, ‘Don’t put a lot of pressure on them, to be a football player or an athlete.’ They find their own path.”
He added on the time, “And I just had an epiphany: with the 8-and-unders, I’m going to coach them like I do my own players. Not treat my kids any different than my own players, and not treat my players any different than my own kids.”
Stay scrolling for Jim and Sarah’s whole courting timeline:
2006
Jim and Sarah met within the car parking zone of a PF Changs in Las Vegas in a while after he finalized his divorce from ex-wife Miah.
“Sarah was there getting takeout. I saw her get takeout and leaving, and I went up to her and asked if I could meet her,” he recalled throughout a 2015 interview on HBO’s Actual Sports activities. “She said, ‘Sure, you can meet me,’ and she gave me her phone number. I didn’t believe her at first, I thought it was one of those fake numbers.”
Jim famous that he reached out to Sarah “nine times” earlier than she returned his telephone name. “I could tell she was a winner all the way,” he gushed.
January 2008
After two years in combination, Jim and Sarah tied the knot.
2010
All the way through Jim’s tenure because the Stanford College soccer trainer, he gave Sarah a candy shout-out throughout a press convention.
“I was thinking just the other night that two people in my life, my wife and our quarterback, Andrew Luck, have a lot in common in that they’re just both perfect,” Jim quipped. “With most people you say, ‘If they only didn’t do that. Or they didn’t do this.’ Or you wish they could do this, or you wish they could do that. But I don’t do that with my wife Sarah or Andrew Luck. They are just absolutely perfect the way they are. For a football coach, that’s pretty great — to have a great wife and a great quarterback.”
Twelve months later, he turned into the pinnacle trainer of the San Francisco 49ers. In 2013, he used to be photographed kissing Sarah at the sidelines forward of the group’s sport in opposition to the Arizona Cardinals.
January 2017
Jim and his circle of relatives moved to Michigan in 2015 when he used to be employed to train the College of Michigan’s soccer group. Two years later, he and Sarah welcomed their fourth child in combination.
“Arriving early, weighing in at 4 lb 13 oz, with an 18 in wing span, our newest Wolverine teammate, John Harbaugh,” Jim wrote by the use of X on the time. “Precious. God is good.”
September 2023
All the way through a Michigan press convention, Jim praised Sarah’s number of TV suppliers for his or her circle of relatives.
“My wife got this YouTube TV, it’s like half the price of DirectTV — no offense DirectTV — but we’re over there YouTube TV now,” he quipped. “I mean, there must be 150 games to watch, so I’m in hog heaven! … And then you can go back and watch them again.”
4 months later, experiences surfaced that Jim used to be leaving Michigan to be the brand new head trainer of the Los Angeles Chargers.