West attended The Peninsula School before earning a basketball scholarship at Utah State. She was the Mountain West Freshman of the Year in 2017.[1]
West then switched to Australian rules football, initially playing for Casey in the VFL. She won Casey's Best and Fairest as well as the Debbie Lee Medal in 2021. West played for Melbourne in the AFL in 2022 and 2023 before being traded to Hawthorn.[2] She was Melbourne's best player in its winning 2022 AFL Women's season 7 Grand Final.[3]