Pictured L-R: Indi, Indiana, Morgan and London Wijay
Football:
The Wijay family has become very accustomed to winning.
London Wijay is a two-time CIF-SS Volleyball Player of the Year after leading Alemany to Division 4 and Division 3 titles, in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
London and Indiana Wijay’s mom, Morgan Wijay, is the Warriors head coach, and she is the reigning two-time CIF-SS Coach of the Year.
It should be no surprise that Indiana inherited the talented genes of his parents, Indi and Morgan Wijay.
Indiana led Pasadena to an undefeated Pacific League championship.
The Bulldogs quarterback and his boys outscored their five league opponents by a combined margin of 248-28.
The highlight was a 47-0 beatdown of crosstown rival Muir at the Rose Bowl.
Wijay threw for over 2,200 yards and 25 TD’s, and PHS finished the regular season 9-1.
The Bulldogs were the victim of a flawed playoff formula that sent the Pacific League champs to El Modena (11-1) in the first round of the D-3 playoffs.
In recent years, it was all but a lock that league champions earned a first-round home game.
El Modena edged PHS, 15-14, in the City of Orange.
Pasadena had just two losses all year, and both came by identical scores of 15-14 to La Serna (week zero) and Alemany (D-3 playoff opener).
PHS linebacker Torriq Brumfield, who led the Bulldogs with a team-best 78 tackles (nine for loss), one sack and three interceptions, was named the Pacific League’s Defensive Player of the Year.
And Dejuan Shamburger earned the league’s Coach of the Year accolade.
To say the PHS football program is on the rise would be an understatement.
In the last two years alone, Shamburger’s Bulldogs are 19-5, including a pair of league titles.
2022 Pacific League Standings:
Pasadena (9-2, 5-0)
Burroughs (7-4, 3-2)
Muir (9-6, 3-2)
Burbank (4-6, 2-3)
Arcadia (2-8, 1-4)
Crescenta Valley (2-8, 1-4)
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