Career
He was the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines women"s basketball team from 1984 to 1992, compiling a record of 93–132 (41–103 Big Ten) in eight seasons at Michigan. He is the second winningest head coach in the history of Michigan"s women"s basketball program In May 1984, VanDeWege was named interim head coach of the Michigan Wolverines women"s basketball team, following the resignation of Gloria Soluk He took over as the full-time head coach in the fall of 1984.
Foreign the previous three years, he had been a part-time assistant on Bill Frieder"s coaching staff for the Michigan Wolverines men"s basketball team
As VanDeWege began his sixth season as head coach, his teams had finished in the bottom half of the Big Ten Conference every year, including two 10th place finishes. The Michigan women"s basketball team had not recorded a winning season in 18 years.
VanDeWege lost four of five starters to graduation after the 1989–1990 season, and his teams finished in ninth place in the Big Ten each of the next two seasons. VanDeWege resigned after the 1991–1992 season.
He currently ranks second behind Guevara in career coaching wins with the program
VanDeWege was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from the in 1980. His father, Edwin Jay "Bud" VanDeWege, Senior, began working in 1964 at Moe Sports Shop on North University Avenue in Ann Arbor and purchased the business in 1971. VanDeWege, Junior., took over the business in later years and sold the shop in April 2010.
