Vanderpan will coach defensive backs and be the team’s video coordinator in his first season at UWSP.
He comes to UWSP following a brief stop at the University of Jamestown. In 2017-18, he was a graduate assistant at Montana State University-Northern. He spent a season at the University of Montana-Western as a student assistant in 2016-17. A native of Bismarck, N.D., Vanderpan played defensive back and special teams from 2008-2012 at Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D., where he majored in general studies.