Rancho Cordova Sports Hall of Fame

Willeford was one of the top athletes at Cordova High School, starring in football, basketball and baseball. A three-time All-Sierra Valley Conference choice, Willeford batted .425 as a junior, scored 26 runs and sported a .620 slugging percentage. He followed that up batting .370 as a senior. He quarterbacked Cordova to the D-II section title game, earned entry into the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame as a scholar-athlete, played for San Diego State in 2006-2007 and later coached alongside former Major League star Tony Gwynn.