VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Courtesy: Silloway Family

St. Johnsbury

Basketball

Inducted 2024

An all-ACC basketball player at the University of Virginia, Kim Silloway was one of the state’s top girl’s players in the early 80s, amassing 1,523 points in basketball and leading St. Johnsbury Academy to back-to-back D-I state championships in 1981 and 1982.  

Her career scoring was the state high school record at the time and the most prior to the advent of the 3-point arc. Silloway still shares the Barre Auditorium State Tournament record of 63 points in two games.

At the end of her senior year, she was selected by USA Basketball as one of the top woman players in the country earning her an invitation to play in the U.S. Olympic Festival in Colorado Springs where her team earned a bronze medal.  

Basketball wasn’t the only sport Silloway excelled in. Coached by VSHOF inductee Ray Frey, she was also the Vermont Cross Country girls champion in 1980, a member of the Hilltoppers track state champions in 1981, won the state high jump title going 5’1 ¾”, led the 4x400 relay team to a championship, was second in the 1500 meter run and 3rd in the 3000 meters.

Silloway continued her basketball career at Virginia in the powerful Atlantic Coast Conference where she excelled both athletically and academically.  A standout guard for the Cavaliers, she helped lead Virginia to its first two NCAA tournament appearances in 1984 and 1985, and the ACC regular season title in 1984. She was named to the ACC All-Conference second team in 1985, and over her four years, she earned ACC Player and Rookie of the Week honors. She earned the UVa’s ACC Female Scholar-Athlete Award in 1986, awarded to the school’s top student-athlete for academic and athletic performance. 

She was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003, and the VPA Hall of Fame in 2009. 

Silloway received her dental degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1993 and completed her surgical residency in 1997. She has since retired after decades as an oral surgeon in Virginia.