In 2012, Willsey won the Ontario Bantam Mixed championship, playing third for Sarah Nuhn.

[11] In his fifth year of eligibility, beginning in 2019, Willsey began curling for Wilfrid Laurier University,[12] playing third on the team, which was skipped by Matthew Hall.

The team won two tour events that season, the Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel[13] and the Huron ReproGraphics Oil Heritage Classic.

Willsey would later form a team with Brady Lumley, Matthew Garner and Spencer Dunlop.

Willsey attended Park Street Collegiate Institute[citation needed], and then Orillia Secondary School.