University of St. Thomas Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Camps Coordinator/Offensive Line
- Email:
- jeff.duvendeck@stthomas.edu
- Phone:
- 651-962-5932
Jeff Duvendeck enters his 23rd year of coaching at the collegiate level and third season as Offensive Line coach at the University of St. Thomas. He also helps coordinate summer camps.
He has been a part of three conference championship teams and one national championship team.
In the 2020 fall season, Jeff served as a Sr. Offensive Analyst at Eastern Michigan University under Chris Creighton.
Duvendeck led the reboot of football at Lawrence Technological University from 2017 through 2019. This involved starting the football program from scratch after a 70-year hiatus. In their first season of play, 2018 they went 5-3 with all freshmen.
Jeff was head coach at Culver-Stockton College in Missouri from 2011-2016 in the NAIA. During his six seasons at the helm, the Wildcats saw significant improvements. In 2014 CSC enjoyed its first winning season in more than a decade (6-5). In 2014 the CSC passing offense was ranked 23rd in the country with 236.2 yards per game and defense held opponents to 119 rushing yards per game, ranking 14th in the nation. Over Jeff’s tenure at Culver, total offense improved from 174.5 yards per game to 411.8 yards per game, scoring offense improved by 73-percent to 26 points per game. In the 2016 season, Culver set school records of 3,877 total passing yards and 352.5 yards passing per game, ranking second in total passing yards and third in passing yards per game nationally.
Prior to Culver-Stockton, Duvendeck was an offensive graduate assistant at Michigan State University under coach Mark Dantonio. He worked with the wide receivers and fullbacks in the fall, and the offensive line and tight ends in the spring under the tutelage of Dan Roushar current New Orleans Saints O-Line coach. Duvendeck helped lead the Spartans to a share of the Big Ten Conference title and a berth in the Capital One Bowl in 2010.
Before joining the staff at MSU, Duvendeck spent four years at Northern Michigan University as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. Under his direction, the Wildcats averaged 415.7 yards per game and 28.2 points per game in 2007, and 31.6 points per game in 2009 - an improvement of 8.5 points per game over his tenure. NMU’s rushing attack improved by 64 yards per game and third down conversions improved from 33-percent to 44-percent. During his time at NMU he was tutored by Carl “Buck” Nystrom who was a 1994 inductee into North Dakota State Athletic Hall of Fame and a 2014 inductee into Michigan State Athletic Hall of Fame.
Duvendeck served as the offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Michigan Technological University from 2003-05. He helped the Huskies win the 2004 GLIAC conference title and advance to the NCAA Division II playoffs for the first time in program history. Duvendeck coached three NCAA Division II All-Americans, including two who were selected as the GLIAC’s Offensive Lineman of the Year.
During the 2002 season, he served as a graduate assistant at Grand Valley State under former Central Michigan head coach and current Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly. As a Laker, he worked with the offensive line under the tutelage of Jeff Quinn, current Notre Dame O-Line coach and helped guide GVSU to a GLIAC conference title and the program’s first NCAA Division II National Championship.
Duvendeck began his football coaching career in the 2001 season as a graduate assistant at Tiffin University where he worked with the running backs.
Duvendeck worked as a student assistant strength coach at Central Michigan in 2001.
In total, Duvendeck has coached 10 All-Americans, three Conference Players of the Year and 30 all-conference honorees at a respective position. Eight players under his tutelage have gone on to play in the NFL.
A native of Flushing, Mich., Duvendeck was a running back at Central Michigan University. He lettered in 2000 and earned his bachelor’s degree in health promotion and rehabilitation. He earned his master’s degree in kinesiology from Michigan State University in 2016.
