[1] Westendorf first made Victorian state representation as a 15 year old in 1974 Colts series raced against New Zealand.

[2] In 1977 at the Australian Rowing Championships she won a women's junior four title in Dimboola colours with Leeanne Whitehouse with whom she would later share state and national honours.

[3] She was selected for Victoria at the senior level in 1977 in the women's heavyweight four which contested the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.

[8] By 1987 she was representing Melbourne University as a lightweight and won the coxless four national title at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1987.

Westendorf was selected in the three seat with Sally Harding, Anne Chirnside, Verna Westwood and Susie Palfreyman in the stern.

[12] After a number of years out of national crews, Westendorf was back in the Australian coxless four for her final representative appearance at the 1990 World Rowing Championships in Lake Barrington.