Lora Westling enters her first season as head coach of the Illinois College women’s basketball team. Westling also serves as the head coach of Illinois College’s women’s golf team.

Westling, a native of Casper, Wyoming, earned a bachelor’s degree from Washburn University in 2005. She earned her MBA from Washburn in 2007. Westling was a standout member of Washburn’s women’s basketball and women’s soccer teams, helping the school’s basketball team to a Division II national championship in 2005. She finished her career as Washburn’s all-time leader in three-pointers made (144) and games played (132). Westling got her start in coaching at Washburn, where she served as an assistant women’s basketball and women’s soccer coach. She has also coached women’s basketball as an assistant at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Truman State University.

Westling resides in Jacksonville.