University of Victoria Athletics

Brett Westcott brings 31 years of coaching experience at the college and the high-school levels to the bench as he joins coach Dani Sinclair’s Vikes women's basketball staff list starting in the 2014-15 season.
 
Westcott spent the past eight seasons coaching at Camosun College in Victoria, B. C., serving seven seasons as the women’s head coach after spending one season as an assistant coach with both the men’s and the women’s teams.  He led the Camosun women’s team to seven Pacwest conference playoff appearances, five playoff final four appearances, three provincial championship appearances and one provincial championship in 2009.  His Camosun teams also qualified to make two appearances in the Canadian College Athletic Association women’s national championship tournament.  During his tenure, he was named the Pacwest Coach of the Year three times and the Basketball B. C. College Coach of the ear once.  He coached former Vikes Carmen Lapthorne and Chelsea McMullen at Camosun for two seasons each before they moved to UVic to finish their degrees an compete for the Vikes.
 
At the high-school level, Westcott’s teams had great success at both the junior and senior girls levels.  He led the Spectrum high-school girls team to a B. C. AAA girls championship in 1995 and he guided the Mount Douglas high-school girls team to appearances in the B. C. AAA girls championship game in 2003 and 2004.  His Colquitz junior girls team reached the B. C. junior girls championship game in 1993 and 1994, winning a championship in 1994.  His junior and senior girls teams won a combined eight Vancouver Island championship titles and made 13 B. C. championship tournament appearances.  He also helped to guide both junior and senior high-school boys teams to B. C. championship tournament appearances.
 
Westcott maintains his strong grassroots basketball connections as he is currently the president of the B. C. Secondary School Girls Basketball Association which oversees high-school girls basketball in the province and he is the president of the South Vancouver Island Basketball Association club program.
 
He has completed his Basketball Canada Level 3 (technical and practical) certification and he is a graduate of UVic where he completed a bachelor’s degree and the teacher certification program.  He currently works as a high-school teacher at Spectrum Secondary School in Victoria, B. C.