Jack VerDuin was an All-City player in football at Grand Rapids Union High School, played three years of baseball at Western Michigan University and was team captain of the semi-professional Grand Rapids Sullivans, but coaching football and impacting the lives of young people over five decades primarily at Wyoming Park High School was where he excelled.

VerDuin had an overall football coaching record of 243-118-6 with 21 conference championship teams. His 1984 team won the Class B State Championship, and his 1985 team was a state runner-up.

He is a member of the Wyoming Park High School Hall of Fame, The Grand Rapids Grid Iron Heroes, the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame, was the Associated Press Michigan High School Coach of the Year in 2001 and was the MHSFCA Coach of the Year five times as well as a MHSFCA regional director for six years.

A gifted speaker, he was a proponent and pioneer of option offense and often shared that knowledge in clinics, with other coaches and on radio football broadcasts.