Education
- MBA: Boston College, 2011
- BA: Economics & General Education, Boston College, 2006
Biosketch
Alison Quandt Westgate joined UMass Lowell in the fall of 2017 overseeing academics and student services. She has a passion for working with student-athletes to help them achieve their full potential as students, athletes and citizens of the greater community. Known across the department as ‘Q,’ she is charged with the academic success of student-athletes across all 16 sports as well as building the foundation for the burgeoning Student-Athlete Development curriculum that includes the River Hawk Leadership Academy, Career Preparation, Community Service and Personal Development programming and services.
Prior to UMass Lowell, she spent a year and a half at Impact Performance Group LLC designing and facilitating training and development programs for organizations across a range of industries from banking to hospitality to construction in sales, service, leadership and coaching.
Before IPG, Quandt Westgate spent eight years as the Director and then Assistant Athletic Director of Student-Athlete Development at Boston College and oversaw the build-out of a holistic program to serve student-athletes in their leadership, career, personal and community service development. Highlights of her time on the Heights include, the creation of Xcel, a biannual summit for the captains of each team; an increase in senior student-athlete job/graduate school placement from 62% to 86% over a three year period; and the creation of an annual service trip to New Orleans, LA and rural Mississippi that brought 25 student-athletes together from a variety of sports to help rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. In addition, she coached the goaltenders on the women’s hockey team for nine years – a tenure that included seven trips to the Frozen Four, preparation of two backstops for the Olympic team (2010 & 2014), and a Silver Medal at the World Championships as an assistant with the U18 Women’s National Team in Budapest, Hungary.
Quandt Westgate is a certified facilitator of the DiSC® Personality Assessment and facilitates Huddle Up, a leadership program that uses the power of sport to help end gender violence through the Institute for Sport and Social Justice. She also serves on the Advisory Board for Boston College’s Master of Sport Administration Program in the Woods College of Advancing Studies.
A Boston College alumnae (BA Economics & General Education), Quandt Westgate spent the first three years of her professional career at PwC in the Risk Assurance Practice before returning the BC to complete her MBA with a Leadership concentration.
A four-year member of the women’s hockey team at BC, she currently lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with her husband Ronnie and children, Natalie and Peter.