Westlake was promoted to associate head coach in 2012, after spending four years as an assistant coach of the Eastern Washington volleyball team.

­Westlake serves as the recruiting coordinator for EWU volleyball, and handles all travel logistics for the squad. She is also responsible for in-game coaching of the middle blockers and the team blocking efforts as a whole. Under her guidance, the Eagles boasted the second-best blocking numbers of all teams in the Big Sky last season, averaging 2.32 blocks per set. That average was also among the top 60 of all teams in Division I volleyball.

Prior to arriving at Eastern, she served as director of operations at Gonzaga University for the 2007 season and was a volunteer assistant coach with the Bulldogs the year before.

In her time at Gonzaga, Westlake was involved in all aspects of the program. She helped the team improve from a 9-20 finish in 2006 to a 17-13 record the following year, which was the program’s first winning mark since 1994.

The well-traveled Westlake has actually worked in three different continents in her last three jobs. Prior to her time at Gonzaga, she was the head coach at Alconbury High School in Cambridgeshire, England, where she led the AHS squad to a European title. She has also served as an assistant coach at Kinnick High School in Yokosuka, Japan.

Westlake also held the role of head coach at Santa Catalina High School (Monterey, Calif.) and California Maritime Academy. In addition, she was the junior volleyball club director at Cal Maritime, and has coached several club teams in California.

Since moving to Spokane, Westlake has coached some of the best volleyball players in the area as the U-18 national head coach with the Spokane Splash volleyball club.

She has led her club teams to two Junior National Championship appearances in the “Open Division,” which is the most competitive of the tournament’s groupings. In 2008, her team earned its bid after winning the Pacific Northwest Qualifier, marking the first such achievement for a Northwest-based team.

She played volleyball at the University of Oregon and helped lead her team to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 1984. Westlake followed her collegiate career by playing professional volleyball both indoors and on the beach.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in recreation from Oregon in 1986, she attained a master’s in management with an emphasis in international management from Troy State University in 2002.

Westlake and her husband, Mark, live in Spokane. They have a daughter, Mariah (19), and son, Mason (11). Mariah plays volleyball for Cameron University - an NCAA Division II school in Lawton, Okla.