Honor Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Instrumental advocate for women's sports and a pioneer for Title IX as a consultant to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on Title IX in the 1970s
All-state athlete in volleyball and basketball
Nationally rated official in four sports
Director of Athletics for Women at Southern Illinois University (1960-1986)
Transformed SIU women's athletics into a nationally recognized program with 11 sports
Coached SIU basketball to a fifth-place national finish (1969)
Director of National Championships for the AIAW (1975)
President of the AIAW (1978)
Member of the U.S. Olympic Committee (1978)
Among the initial class of women inducted into the SIU Athletics Hall of Fame (1982)
WBCA Administrator of the Year (1986)
Developed SIU's graduate program in sports management, which she directed until 1991
First recipient of the NACWAA Woman Administrator of the Year Award (1991)
First recipient of the Honda Award of Merit for outstanding achievement in women's collegiate athletics (1996)
SIU's softball facility was named Charlotte West Stadium in her honor (2003)
Inducted into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame (2005)
Inducted into the NACDA Hall of Fame (2006)
Served more than 12 years as a consultant to and member of the WBCA Board of Directors
Chair of the NCAA Committee on Financial Aid and Amateurism and a member of the NCAA Athletics Certification, Gender Equity, and numerous other NCAA committees
A room at NCAA headquarters is named the Charlotte West Room in her honor