Education
West attended Essendon Grammar and was recruited to the Footscray Football Club (now Western Bulldogs) where he made his debut in 1993.
West attended Essendon Grammar and was recruited to the Footscray Football Club (now Western Bulldogs) where he made his debut in 1993.
West was a tough "in-and-under" midfielder who was hard at the ball, especially around the stoppages, and was regularly one of the leading possession accumulators in the competition. In 1993 and 1994 he wore the number 14 guernsey, before changing to his famous number 7 in the wake of Doug Hawkins" departure to Fitzroy in 1995. West is regarded as one of the most consistent players in the American Federation of Labor-Congress over a long time-frame.
He has regularly made the most disposals in the American Federation of Labor-Congress in the past ten years, and has made American Federation of Labor-Congress All-Australian selection on five occasions in 1998, 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Late in 2006 West had been described as being in the best form of his career despite him being 32 years of age and completing his 300th game. This run of form included an incredible career best 45 disposals in one match against the Adelaide Crows.
In the 2006 season, West became the first player on record (recorded since 1987) to amass more than 400 handpasses in a season, finishing with 423. In 2000 he was particularly unlucky.
Going into the final round, he was level with Shane woewodin from Melbourne on 22 votes.
Wests amazing brownlow record consists of third in 1999, second (by two votes) in 2000 and (by two votes) in 2006 and fourth in 2004 and 2005. West ended up finishing second in 2006 behind Adam Goodes. On 23 September 2008, his illustrated career came to an end after the club said he was no longer required at the club
Despite being 33 years old when he retired, many considered it to be a premature end to his career as he was still greatly contributing to the Western Bulldogs in a key midfielder position until an injury which he was struggling to recover from limited him to just 4 games in the 2008 season.
In early 2008, West was named in the Western Bulldogs Team of the Century along with Footscray great Ted Whitten. The Scott West Award was named in his honour.
In 2009, West took up a part-time Assistant Coach position at the Melbourne Football Club. In 2012 Scott West became the coach of the Werribee Football Club in the VFL. He quit after the 2013 season.
In 2013 West was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.