Mike Woodley

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Mike Woodley
Playing career
Football
1970–1973 Northern Iowa
Basketball
1972–1973 Northern Iowa
Position(s) Free safety (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1974–1975 Iowa (GA)
1976 Alamogordo HS (NM)
1977–1978 Waterloo East HS (IA)
1979–1982Osage HS (IA)
1983–1988 Fort Dodge Senior HS (IA)
1989–1990 St. Ambrose (OC)
1991–1993 St. Ambrose
1994–2003 Iowa State (assistant)
2004–2007 Sam Rayburn HS (TX)
2008–2018 Grand View
2019–2020 Mount Marty
Baseball
1977 Alamogordo HS (NM)
1977–1979 Waterloo East HS (IA)
Head coaching record
Overall107–53 (college football)
Tournaments6–5 (NAIA playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 NAIA (2013)
4 MSFA Midwest (2011–2014)
3 HAAC North Division (2015–2017)
Awards
As a player
As a coach

Mike Woodley is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa from 1991 to 1993 and Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa from the program's inception in 2008 through the 2018 season, compiling a career college football coaching record of 107–53. Woodley left Grand View in June 2019 to become the first head football coach at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota. He retired in August 2021 before Mount Marty played its first game. [1]

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At Grand View, Woodley coached his 2013 team to a NAIA Football National Championship title. He was named the NAIA Football Coach of the Year Award that same season, voted the Mid-States Football Association Midwest League Coach of the Year in 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2014, and the Heart of America Conference Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2017. [2] Woodley's coaching record with the Grand View Vikings was 93–35. [3] [4] His record with the St. Ambrose Fighting Bees was 14–18. [5]

A four-year letter winner in football at the University of Northern Iowa, Woodley was a three-time all-conference first team player (1971–1973) and a second-team selection to the 1973 Little All-America college football team as a senior. The UNI Athletics Hall of Fame inducted Woodley in its Class of 2005.

As a high school football coach, Woodley coached in New Mexico, Iowa and Texas. [6]

Head coaching record

College football

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs NAIA#
St. Ambrose Fighting Bees (NAIA Division II independent)(1991–1993)
1991 St. Ambrose4–7
1992 St. Ambrose4–6
1993 St. Ambrose6–5
St. Ambrose:14–18
Grand View Vikings (NAIA independent)(2008–2018)
2008 Grand View2–8
Grand View Vikings (Mid-States Football Association)(2009)
2009 Grand View8–36–12nd (MWL)21
2010 Grand View6–44–34th (MWL)
2011 Grand View8–46–1T–1st (MWL)L NAIA First Round 18
2012 Grand View8–35–1T–1st (MWL)16
2013 Grand View 14–06–01st (MWL)W NAIA Championship 1
2014 Grand View10–25–01st (MWL)L NAIA Quarterfinal 6
Grand View Vikings (Heart of America Athletic Conference)(2015–2018)
2015 Grand View11–25–01st (North)L NAIA Quarterfinal 6
2016 Grand View9–34–1T–1st (North)L NAIA First Round 9
2017 Grand View9–34–11st (North)L NAIA First Round 11
2018 Grand View8–34–12nd (North)L NAIA First Round 15
Grand View:93–3549–9
Total:107–53
      National championship        Conference title        Conference division title or championship game berth

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References

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