Viking Football Camps
Head Coach Mike Woodley
Mike Woodley
Head Coach
Coach Woodley begins his third season with the Vikings. He led Grand View to an 8-3 overall record in 2009 and the Vikings went 6-1 for second place in the MSFA. Woodley was selected as the 2009 MSFA Coach of the Year. Grand View also broke into the NAIA Top 25 Rankings in 2009 and was ranked for five consecutive weeks, as high as the No. 17 team in the nation. The Vikings were ranked as the No. 21 team in the NAIA Postseason Poll and the No. 21 team in the NAIA 2010 Spring Poll.
In 2009, Woodley produced his first All-American at Grand View as defensive back Titus Bland was named to both the NAIA and AFCA All-American teams.
Woodley has spent 30 of his 35 seasons coaching in Iowa. He was a graduate assistant at the University of Iowa, assistant coach at Waterloo East High School, head coach at Osage High School, head coach at St. Ambrose University, and a 9-year assistant coach at Iowa State University. Prior to Grand View, he spent four years as the athletic director and head football coach at Sam Rayburn High School in Houston, Texas.
Coach Woodley is an inductee to the Iowa High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and is a Hall of Fame member of the University of Northern Iowa, where he was an All-American, and at Waterloo East High School. He has won Coach of the Year honors at each school he has coached and was the NAIA District 15 Coach of the Year while at St. Ambrose after his team earned a victory over IAA power Western Illinois.
Woodley's name is synonymous with athletics in the state of Iowa as his four sons are all involved in coaching. Brian is the head football coach at Johnston High School, Joe serves as Grand View's Defensive Coordinator, Matt coaches the cornerback at Grand View and is the head boys' basketball coach at Waukee High School, and Andy is an assistant basketball coach at Waukee High School.
Woodley resides in Urbandale with his wife Betsy.