[2] Although he enjoyed playing lacrosse, Shillington was forced to quit to take a job as a night copy boy at the Vancouver Sun.
[3] Shillington then accepted a job as the newspapers police reporter and researcher with the Joint Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit.
In total, he spent 31 seasons as league statistician with the ICLL and Western Lacrosse Association (WLA).
[5] Shillington recounted having to once score a game from the penalty box while two players attacked each other with sticks over his head.
[7] In 1980, Shillington awarded the Norm Kowalyk Trophy as Executive Of The Year by the Western Lacrosse Association.