West Virginia University Athletics

Taylor West has been on the Mountaineer football staff since April 2022, first serving as the director of on-campus recruiting and assistant director of football operations before being promoted to associate director of football operations in 2023.

She coordinates and executes all on-campus recruiting efforts, including official and unofficial visits, junior days and game-day recruiting visits. She coordinates with all support staff when creating itineraries and is responsible for communicating visit information internally to all football staff, and externally to recruits, guests, campus partners and vendors.

West also manages recruiting operations, including the mass communication plan, hiring and managing of student workers and purchasing of items. For football operations, she assists with day-to-day scheduling and operations, team and staff events, donor events and home and away game travel, including organizing the travel party, team transportation, police escort and all aspects of the hotel. She also oversees current player parent/guardian communication.

In April 2023, West was one of 45 women in football operations, who participated in the NFL’s Annual Women’s Forum at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. The event connected them with coaches, general managers and leaders in professional football to provide insight and networking opportunities for their careers in the areas of scouting, coaching and football operations.

West came to WVU after serving as the director of on-campus recruiting/assistant to the head coach at Illinois. She organized official and unofficial visits and handled administrative and scheduling duties for the head coach. West was responsible for player parent/guardian and coaches’ spouse communication, along with other operations responsibilities.

West spent the summer of 2021 as the director of on-campus recruiting at Eastern Kentucky and also served as a compliance and football recruiting graduate assistant at Missouri State from August 2019 to May 2021.

The Iowa City, Iowa, native, earned her bachelor’s degree in sport and recreation management at the University of Iowa in 2019. While attending Iowa, she was a member of the women’s rowing team and earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Athlete honors. West spent the 2018-19 year as a recruiting operations intern at Stanford. She completed her master’s degree in student affairs in higher education from Missouri State in 2021. Her thesis on athletic identity and academic success was published in the Journal of Student-Athlete Educational Development and Success.