Football

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Wyoming

Sep 20 (Sat)

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Luke Westall
Luke Westall
Luke Westall is in his third year as the assistant equipment manager for the football program, having joined the department on July 1, 2020.
 
Westall, 28, joined CU from the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he was the head equipment manager for the cross country and track teams and the assistant for the football program for a year-and-a-half (2019-20, until being hired by CU).  At AFA, he managed the ordering and creation of apparel and competition gear for the 2019 and 2020 seasons, managed and implemented a detailed inventory system to track apparel and planned and implemented a structured weekly routine for athletes concerning equipment with repairs, laundry, and issuing.  He also assisted and managed special events, including the NHL Stadium Series game (Avalanche-Kings) and Los Angeles Chargers practices during the 2019 and 2020 season from an equipment standpoint.  He assisted with the 2019 Cheese-It Bowl in all day to day tasks along with game day sideline support and worked the 2019 Cheez-It Bowl, where Air Force defeated Washington State, 31-21, to finish 11-2 for the season.
 
He was an intern for the National Wheelchair Basketball Association for 2017-18, where he assisted and created webpages that managed memberships and global events; planned, setup, and ran an international basketball tournament with foreign countries including USA, Great Britain, Amsterdam, Canada, and Australia; designed and managed apparel for a new online store as well as the Men’s and Women’s National Teams’ and assisted coaches with practices, running shot clocks, managing equipment and setting up facilities.  He also planned, set up, and worked on the largest organized Para sport tournament in history.
 
In the summer of 2017, Westall was an intern with the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), where among several duties, he assisted with creating and dispersing promotional material throughout Colorado Springs, managed the media room for the event at the summit house of Pikes Peak, planned and fulfilled sponsorship agreements throughout the course and race week and supervised the closings of multiple roads in downtown Colorado Springs.  He also was able to assist I helped Hoonigan Media with the filming of Ken Block’s Climbkhana. He continues to work as a volunteer race official for the PPIHC, something he began doing back in 2012.
 
Westall earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Sport Management in 2018 from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.  He is working toward finishing his Athletic Equipment Managers Association Certification this summer.
 
He was born March 3, 1994 in Canon City, Colo., and after spending much of his youth in St. Augustine, Fla., he returned to the Centennial State in 2009 and graduated from Woodland Park (Colo.) High School where he lettered in football.  His hobbies include hunting, fishing, mountain biking, snowboarding, basketball and auto racing.  He also owns an impressive collection of … sneakers.