Four decades after his graduation, Don Woodworth remains the all-time career scoring leader for Whitman men’s basketball. He finished with 2,019 points and is one of a relative few small-college players in the history of Northwest basketball to score 2,000 or more points in a career.
Woodworth, a 6-foot-5 forward, led Whitman in scoring in each of his last three seasons. As a senior, he scored a school-record 652 points in 25 games, a 26.1-point average that topped the Northwest college ranks for that season. He also topped the Northwest in scoring as a junior, ringing up a total of 571 points.
Woodworth, a graduate of Bellevue (Wash.) High School, led Whitman in rebounds as a senior with 286, averaging 11.4 per game. He earned All-Northwest Conference First-Team honors as a senior and junior, after being named to the Second Team as a sophomore and receiving Honorable Mention as a freshman. He also received NAIA All-District honors in his final three seasons.
Woodworth, a political science major, earned his law degree at the University of Washington in 1971. He makes his home in Bellevue, Wash., and works as a senior deputy in the King County (Wash.) Prosecutor’s Office. His legal career included earlier stops in Micronesia and Washington, D.C.
