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Longtime Mounds View boys basketball coach Ziggy Kauls dead at 84

By Joel Rippel, the Minnesota Star Tribune, 04/22/25, 10:15AM CDT

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Kauls coached the Mustangs for 45 years, winning two state championships.

Ziggy Kauls, left, speaks to MC Dave Lee as the longtime Mounds View coach is inducted into the Minnesota High School Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Ziggy Kauls, who coached the Mounds View boys basketball for 45 seasons from 1967 to 2012, died Sunday at 84.

Kauls coached the Mustangs to 12 appearances in the state tournament, winning two state titles: the Class 2A championship in 1972 and the 4A championship in 1999.

For more on Kauils, click here to read this story on startribune.com.

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