Career
She was also an ice hockey player in the Canadian Women"s Hockey League (CWHL). West has competed for the Mississauga Chiefs and Burlington Barracudas in the CWHL. Currently, she is the head coach of the Toronto Furies of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. As head coach of the Toronto Furies, she led the squad to the 2014 Clarkson Cup championship.
West was a prominent softball player.
She was an All-Star shortstop at both the 1997 and 1998 Canadian women"s Nationals. She helped earn a silver medal for Canada in softball at the Pan Am Games in 1999.
One of her teammates was Olympic ice hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser. West also played first base on the 2002 National softball team
Hockey West also participated with the Senior National women"s team in two Four Nations Cup tournaments (1998 and 1999, respectively).
She also played for Canada in a series versus Sweden in January 2001 and the TSN Challenge versus United States of America in January 2001. Five years later, West attended the Canadian National Women"s Team Fall Festival in Kenora, Ontario.
At the age of eighteen, West competed in the National Women"s Hockey League.
She was part of four consecutive NWHL championships four consecutive years. In 2005-2006, she led the league in points and was voted NWHL Offensive Player of the Year.
With the Mississauga Chiefs of the NWHL, West also served as team captain during 2007-2008. Her teammates on the Chiefs have included Olympic gold medallists Jennifer Botterill and Sami Jo Small.
CWHL In the 2011 CWHL Draft, she was selected by the Burlington Barracudas.
West retired after the 2011-2012 CWHL season, leaving the five-year-old league as the CWHL"s fifth-best scorer with 149 points (125 games played from 2007-2008 to 2011-2012). She scored a goal in her final CWHL game. Currently, she the head coach of the Toronto Furies.
Her father is Steve West, who played professional hockey in the 1970s for the Winnipeg Jets and the Houston Aeros of the WHA.
