Calcante Quits Day Job As Coach at Westlake High

Beth Calcante, softball coach at Westlake High, said Tuesday she will not return for a second season with the Warriors, citing time restraints of a new job.

“I’m really gonna miss the girls,” Calcante said. “I still want to coach, but this opportunity was too good to pass up.”

Calcante, a 1995 graduate of Cal State Northridge, took a management trainee position with Enterprise Rent-A-Car last month and thought it impossible to continue her coaching duties.

Joe Pawlick, Westlake’s assistant principal in charge of athletics, is unaware of Calcante’s job change. On Monday, Pawlick phoned several local newspapers to say that the former Northridge All-American had “abandoned her position” as coach.

“I left over a dozen messages [on her machine],” he said. “And she hasn’t returned any of my calls.”

Calcante insists she has left messages for Pawlick at Westlake and none of her calls have been answered. She said she left three messages Tuesday.

Calcante is the second Marmonte League coach in a week to leave her post after only a single season. Camarillo’s Nichole Victoria, who played at UCLA from 1991-94, resigned last week to take an assistant position with Oregon State.

Westlake was 14-11 last season and finished fifth in the Marmonte League.