Jim Bish
Contributor – 1987-2013
Jim Bish came to Woodbridge as a substitute teacher in 1986 and by the end of that school year, he was offered a fulltime position teaching
Social Studies in Fairfax County and also at Woodbridge Senior High School. Jim liked working at “The Best School East of th
the Mississippi” so he
chose to become a Viking.
olved with extra -curricular
curricular activities as he became the Norsemen Club sponsor his first year and then
Jim didn’t waste any time getting involved
worked on the chain gang at all home Varsity Football games for 13 years. In addition he has served as the Freshman Boy’s Cr
Crew Coach and later the
Crew Team Liaison and then President of Woodbridge High School Crew Boosters, Inc. . Besides being an outstanding Social Studies tteacher from
1987 until 2013, Jim served as the Department Chair from 2002 through 2007.
Jim was a Charter Member of the WSHS Athletic
tic Hall of Fame Selection Committee when the Hall of Fame was initiated in 2006. He used his
love for history and the skills that go with that to help gather important information about the athletes, coaches and teams of Woodbridge Senior High
School sincee it’s opening in 1964. Over the past eight years, Jim has compiled an incredibly detailed accounting of season records, indi
individual statistics
and the accolades and honors of many of the amazing teams, athletes and coaches that have competed at WSHS for th
the past 49 years. These records are
critical in our efforts to honor those athletes, coaches and contributors with induction into the Hall of Fame.
Woodbridge Senior High School has been graced with a large number of dedicated and gifted athletes and Jim
Jim’s work has helped to bring many
of the qualified candidates to us for consideration and the Hall of Fame honors that they so richly deserve. Jim is still co
compiling these athletic records
and we continue to discover additional Hall of Fame caliber athlete
athletess every year from the legendary Viking Athletic history.
Richard Hilleary
Wrestling Coach – 1984-2000
Richard Hilleary led Woodbridge to its most dominating era in wrestling. During his fourteen years (1984
(1984-1998)
1998) as Woodbridge’s head coach
he produced six (87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 98) Commonwealth/Cardinal District Championships, four (87, 88, 90, 91) Northwest Region
Regional Championships and
led Woodbridge to two teams (90, 91) Virginia State Duals finals. In addition, he coached a variety of oother
ther sports at Woodbridge and as head baseball
coach in 1994 led Woodbridge to the Commonwealth District Championship.
Hilleary’s regional titles represent four of the five won by Woodbridge all
all-time
time and while his teams won six of the eight Woodbridge district
dis
titles won all-time.
time. The two appearances in the Virginia State Wrestling Team Dual finals are the only appearances in the school’s history. He also
produced two state champions: Brian Shaffer in 1986 at 132 pounds and Daryk Moistner in 1991 at 171 pounds.
During his final season coaching at Woodbridge, 1997
1997-98, Woodbridge set a single-season
season school record for victories at 31-1
31 which still stands.
During that season, Woodbridge took first at the Norfolk Sports Club Titan Wrestling Classic and another first at at the 10-team
10
Viking Wrestling
Tournament. At the end of that season he was selected as the Washington Post 1998 Wrestling All
All-Met
Met Coach of the Year. The following year he was
given the 1999 Virginia High School Coaches Association Coach of the Year A
Award.
Overall, Hilleary produced 37 individual Commonwealth/Cardinal District champions, 25 individual Northwest Regional champions
champions, nine 3rd
Place Virginia State finishers and three Virginia State runners
runners-up
up including Greg Mincey in 1986 at 145 pounds, Reggie
R
Mincey in 1988 at
Heavyweight, and Jim Dutrow in 1996 at 130 pounds in addition to the two state champions of Shaffer and Moistner. His wrestle
wrestlers also earned 33 AllState and 12 All-Met
Met recognitions with Brian Shaffer, Daryk Moistner, and Jim Dutrow earning First Team All-Met
Met recognition by the Washington
Post.
In his overall multi-school
school coaching career, Hilleary’s teams totaled 325 wins representing 4th All-Time
Time in Virginia High School League History.
In 2003 Hilleary was inducted into the Virginiaa Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Craig Conger
Football/Soccer – 1984-1988
Craig Conger was first noticed as he was part of a Woodbridge Freshman football team that went undefeated and unscored upon during the fall
of 1984. As a result of his play, he was moved up to the varsity and received a varsity letter. During the spring, Conger started as a freshman on the
varsity soccer team and helped lead Woodbridge to the Commonwealth District and Northwest Region Soccer titles. That season, he also helped
Woodbridge to the Virginia State Tournament Championship game. After that season, Conger was recognized by the Potomac News as an All-Area
First Team player.
Over the next three years, athletic success continued to follow Craig. As a junior in football, he was selected as the defensive MVP and during
his senior campaign, Craig was selected as a team co-captain while leading Woodbridge to the Northwest Region Playoff finals. In soccer Craig helped
lead Woodbridge to the 1987 and 1988 Commonwealth District Championship and the 1986, 1987, and 1988 Northwest Region Championship.
Woodbridge also made it to the Virginia State Tournament Final Four in each of his last three years and again made it to the championship game in
1988. For his play, Craig made the First Team Potomac News All-Area all four years and First Team All-Commonwealth District his final three years.
During his final two high school years, Craig received First Team All-Northwest Region and First Team All-State Virginia recognition while making
the First Team All-Met recognition from the Washington Post.
Craig received a soccer scholarship to Wake Forest where he was a 4-year starter. His success continued as he helped Wake Forest to the 1989
ACC Championship, the 1991 ACC Championship final, and four NCAA Championship Tournament appearances. For his play he was a 3 time AllACC Selection (WFU's first ever 89, 90, 91), 2 time All-ACC Tourney Team Selection (WFU's first ever 89, 91) and 2 time All-South Selection (90,
91). He was also selected as the 1990 and 1991 Wake Forest Defensive MVP and was the 1991 Wake Forest Team MVP. Craig also was selected for
multiple US National Teams between 1986 and 1991. He later served on the US Soccer Team Staff and currently serves as Director for the US Soccer
Development Academy.
Brittni Dixon
Dixon-Smith
Track/Volleyball – 2003-2007
Brittni Dixon-Smith was one of the greatest all-around
around female athletes to walk the halls at Woodbridge. In volleyball, Brittni was the team MVP
and Journal Messenger All-Area
Area First Team in 2005 as well as a three year team captain. In basketball she was a two
two-time All-District Honorable
Mention selection in 2005 and 2006.
However, it was her exploits in Track and Field that revealed her athleticism. She was a two
two-time
time District Champion in long jump (2005, 06), as
well as a District Champion in both the 100 meter
er and 400 meter dash in 2005. Brittni also was a two
two-time
time Regional Champion in long jump during
2005 and 2006. She won the Virginia State Outdoor Long Jump Champion in 2006 as well as being recognized All
All-State in Long Jump (2005, 06),
4X100 Meter Relay in 2005, and the 200 Meter Dash in 2006.
She currently still holds the All-Time
Time Record at WSHS for Long Jump (both indoor and outdoor) at 19’ 5.5”. She also sits in the WSHS All
Allnd
rd
rd
rd
rd
Time Top Ten records in seven other events including the 300 meter (2 ), 55 meter (3 ), 400 meter (3 ), Triple Jump (3 ), Pole Vault (3 ), 200 meter
(4th), and 100 meter (6th). For her efforts, both on the field and in the classroom, she was recognized as the Potomac News and Manassas Journal
Messenger All-Area Scholar Athlete
lete of the Year in 2007.
Brittni’s athletic credentials earned her a scholarship to Stanford University where she excelled for the next four years. A
Academically, Brittni
earned a spot on the NCAA Division I All-Academic
Academic Track and Field Team from 2008
2008-2011
11 as well as earning Academic All-American
All
status in 2011.
In Track and Field she earned her way onto the All-PAC
PAC 12 team excelling in the Long Jump, the 100 Meter Dash, and the 4X100 Meter Relay. Brittni
currently is on the All-Time Stanford Track Records
rds list for 100 Meter Dash (9th), 4X100 Meter Relay (8th), and Long Jump (6th). After graduating from
Stanford with a B.A. in International Relations and a B.S. in Civil Engineering Brittni competed for a spot on the U.S. Olymp
Olympic Team although her
effortss fell just short of qualifying for the Olympic Team in 2012.
Grant Shiffert
Soccer 1980-1984
Grant Shiffert was one of the great offensive players in some of the earlier years of the boy’s soccer program. Playing for Coach Angelo
Hilios from 1981 – 1984, Shiffert helped lead Woodbridge to three Commonwealth District Championships (81, 83, and 84) and two Northwest Region
Championships in 1983 and 1984. Grant helped to lead the 1984 WSHS Boys Soccer team to the first Boys Soccer State Cha
Championship and became the
first team outside of Cross Country to win a state championship at WSHS.
Shiffert was the leading scorer and leader of the 1984 Boys State Champion Soccer team. During that season he set a Woodbridg
Woodbridge and District
Single Season Scoring
coring Record of 21 goals in 20 games, a record that would stand for seven seasons. The most important goal of the season wa
was the
twenty-first
first goal that Shiffert netted earning Woodbridge the state championship against Green Run with under five minutes to go in the game which
held for a 1-00 Viking victory. The goal was especially pleasing for Woodbridge as Green Run defeated Woodbridge the previous season in th
the state
semifinals.
Over his soccer career, Shiffert was highly decorated. As a sophomore he made the Jefferson High Soccer Invitational All-Tournament
All
Team
and played for the 16U Virginia State Soccer Team where he helped his team to the Mid
Mid-Atlantic/Northeast
Atlantic/Northeast Championship. In 1982 and 83 he made
the Commonwealth District Boys Soccer 2nd Team. After his senior season Shiffert was selected to the Commonwealth District Boys Soccer First
Team and was recognized as the Boys Soccer Player of the Year. He also was recognized by the Washington Post as a First Team Boys Soccer All-Met
All
Forward and he also was selected to participate in the 18U state team.
Grant played collegiately at Alderson-Broaddus
Broaddus College where he led Alderson
Alderson-Broaddus
Broaddus in scoring in 1984 while helping them to the West
Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship in 19
1986
86 and 1988. His 1988 team went on to win the Southeast Regional Championship and
finished the season as the NAIA National Runner-Up
Up in Men’s Soccer.
Nashunda Harper
Volleyball – 1994-1998
Nashunda Harper was a great volleyball player on some of the better volleyball teams that Woodbridge ever produced. Playing during a fouryear stretch that saw Woodbridge under head coach Mike Petock win two Commonwealth District Championships (94 and 95) and mak
making it to the
Virginia AAA Quarterfinals in 1997. Nashunda played with power and agility making her one of the best volleyball players in the region.
Nashunda was exposed to volleyball early as her mother played volleyball at Western Carolina University and while Nashunda was small she
continued to play in Women’s Leagues in Northern Virginia. That influence allowed Nashunda to develop as she started playing volleyball in seventh
grade before she became a member of the former DC Juniors Volleyball Club.
Harper really came into her own during her sophomore season as she was one of the regional leaders in both kills and digs for Woodbridge. As a
result of her play she was recognized by the Washington Post for their All-Met
Met Honorable Mention Volleyball team.
tea
During her junior season her
continued good play earned her First Team Cardinal All
All-District recognition.
Nashunda helped Woodbridge to their best ever finish for a season during the 1997
1997-98
98 year by getting Woodbridge to the Virginia AAA
Quarterfinals before ending their season with an 18-77 record. The AAA Quarterfinals were the closest to the state championship that the program has
ever seen. During that season, she served as a team captain and statistical leader in almost every category recording 336 kills, 508 digs and 29 aces in
25 games. During her four-year
year career she helped Woodbridge to a 65 wins vs. 27 losses record.
At the end of the season she was recognized throughout the state as she was selected to the First Team All
All-Commonwealth
Commonwealth District,
Dis
First Team
All-Northwest Region, First Team All-State,
State, First Team Washington Post All-Met, and was selected as the Potomac News – Messenger Prince William
County Player of the Year. After high school Nashunda played collegiately at Howard Universit
University.
Caroline Kent
Soccer – 1995-1999
Caroline Kent was a great player during a dominant era of Woodbridge Girls Soccer. Over her final three seasons at Woodbridg
Woodbridge, she led
Woodbridge to three consecutive state tournament appearances, losing in each instance in the AAA State Semifinals.
As a freshman, Caroline led Woodbridge to an 11
11-2-2
2 record and the Commonwealth District Championship while emerging as a leading scorer
during the season. Her success during the season allowed her early recognit
recognition
ion as a selection to both the First Team Commonwealth District and
Northwest Region at the end of the season. During her sophomore year, Woodbridge dominated opponents by easily winning the Ca
Cardinal District and
Northwest Region before falling in the AAA State Semifinals. Again, Kent led the team in scoring while capturing both District and Regional First
Team recognition in addition to earning a selection to the Washington Post All-Met Honorable Mention team.
Kent continued her dominant play during her final two seasons at Woodbridge. During the 1998 season she again helped Woodbridge to the
Cardinal District and Northwest Regional Championship while leading the Vikings into the AAA State Semifinals and earned a sp
spot on the Washington
Post All-Met Secondd Team. Kent’s final season at Woodbridge was her best. Caroline again led Woodbridge to the Cardinal District and Northwes
Northwest
Region Championships and back to the AAA State Semifinals. She led the Woodbridge and the region in scoring with 22 goals and 15 assist while
earning the coveted Washington Post First Team All-Met
Met Player of the Year recognition along with the Virginia’s All
All-State Player of the Year.
During her career she scored 66 goals and added another 40 assist while leading Woodbridge to four district, three region, and three AAA state
semifinal appearances. In the process she earned four All
All-District and All-Region awards including three-time
time All-Met
All
recognition. She also
participated on the Track and Field Hockey teams at Woodbridge.
After graduation from Woodbridge, Caroline became a four year starter at George Mason University playing in over eighty games in he
her
collegiate career.
Elizabeth Mumley
Soccer/Basketball 1997
1997-2001
Elizabeth “Liz” Mumley was an aggressive and quick two
two-sport
sport (soccer and basketball) athlete for Woodbridge. On the basketball court she was
on the team as a sophomore that went 25-44 making it to the AAA State Semifinals. As a starter her junior and senior seasons, she helped Woodbridge to
the Cardinal District Championship as a junior.
Liz especially excelled on the soccer field as a forward. Mumley helped Woodbridge in winning the district and regional cham
championships in
1998, 1999, and 2000, while leading Woodbridge to the Northwest Regional semi-finals
finals in 2001. As a freshman and sophomore Mumley led
Woodbridge to the state semi-finals
finals and as a junior to the finals. During her junior campaign she helped lead Woodbridge to an undefeated season, state
championship, and a national
ional number one ranking by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Along the way, Mumley collected First Team All
All-Cardinal District and All-Region
Region each of her final two years at Woodbridge while earning
Second Team All-State as a junior and First Team All--State as a senior. She was chosen Honorable Mention All-Met
Met as a sophomore and a junior by
the Washington Post and was chosen Second Team All
All-Met
Met her senior year while also being selected as the Cardinal District and Northwest Region
Player of the Year.
After leaving Woodbridge, Liz became a four-year
year starter for the Big Ten’s Ohio State Buckeyes Women’s Soccer Team. While at Ohio State
she helped the Buckeyes make it to three straight NCAA tournaments, including making it to the Elite Eig
Eight
ht her senior season. Along the way Liz was
selected twice to the All-Big
Big Ten Tournament Team. During her four years at Ohio State, Liz scored ten goals which currently stands at 12th place alltime career goals in Ohio State history along with twelve as
assist which currently stands at 8th place all-time
time career assists in Buckeye history. In addition
Liz was selected as a Four-Time Academic All-Big
Big Ten Team member.
Ahmad Dorsett
Basketball – 1992-1996
Ahmad Dorsett was one of the key players in the most dominant run in Woodbridge basketball history. In March 1996 as Ahmad pl
played his final
game as a Viking, he was an important part of an 87-16
16 four year run, with four straight years of winning at least ttwenty
wenty games. During that four-year
four
stretch, Woodbridge won four straight Commonwealth District Championships, while making their first ever appearance in the AA
AAA State Semifinals in
1993. During the 1994, 95, and 96 campaigns the Vikings advanced to the Northwest Regional tournament.
Dorsett had a combination of skills on the hardwood. He had excellent quickness adding to his excellent ball handling and de
defensive skills. In
addition, Ahmad was a great scoring threat and excellent rebounder. During hi
hiss senior season he served as team captain and he always directed the
team’s offensive and defensive alignments while helping Woodbridge to a 20
20-4
4 record. His play during his senior season brought a lot of recognition
including First Team Commonwealth District.
Ahmad was recruited heavily by George Mason University where he was a four
four-year
year starter for the Patriots. He was named to the Colonial
Athletic Association (CAA) All-Rookie
Rookie team as a freshman playing for head coach Paul Westhead
Westhead.. Over the next three years he served as co-captain
co
for
new head coach Jim Larranaga and helped lead the team to the conference title and a spot in the 1999 NCAA Tournament.
After graduating from George Mason, Dorsett played professionally for the Washingt
Washington
on Justice of the National Rookie League and for the One
on One National Travel team and served as an assistant coach at Stonewall Jackson and Forest Park High School before spending four seasons as the
head coach at Freedom High School in Woodbridge, Va. He started the basketball program at Freedom and led his squad to two conference titles, three
regional playoff appearances and a state semifinal appearance. During that span he twice won Coach of the Year honors. He als
also served as an assistant
coach at Longwood
ngwood University, Mount Olive College, Bowie State, and Mount Saint Mary, before his current position as Assistant Coach at High Point
University in North Carolina.