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Soccer

Player, coach, general manager, founder. Soccer is the thread that runs through everything else Scott has done.

2002WUSA champions, Carolina Courage
43front office and technical staff he led
12+countries with GreaterGoal teams and programs
10athletic programs overseen at Cornerstone

Carolina Courage

President, General Manager and Director of Player Personnel

Scott ran all soccer and business operations for the Courage, owned by AOL Time Warner, in the Women's United Soccer Association, the world's first fully professional women's league. The club won the 2002 WUSA Championship.

  • Directed player personnel and roster construction, recruiting and signing international stars including Hege Riise of Norway and Birgit Prinz of Germany.
  • Played a leadership role in the development of SAS Soccer Park, now WakeMed Soccer Park, the first soccer-specific stadium built for a women's professional team.
  • Owned the franchise P&L: budgeting, sponsorship and broadcast partnerships with Nike and national networks, ticketing and game-day operations. Served as team spokesperson.
  • Finalist for WUSA Executive of the Year and offered the league CFO position.
  • Led the financial and operational wind-down of the franchise when the league suspended operations.

GreaterGoal International

Founder, CEO and Head Coach

Scott founded and led an international soccer-for-development nonprofit, coaching select women's teams and running operations, sponsorships and humanitarian programs across more than a dozen countries.

  • GreaterGoal teams competed against full national sides, defeating Thailand, Myanmar and Paraguay, and faced Liverpool Women.
  • Worked directly with FIFA member federations, including Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and South Africa, to raise the level of emerging women's programs.
  • Sponsorship partners included Nike and Soccer.com.

Cornerstone University

Head Men's Soccer Coach and Associate Athletic Director

Scott rebuilt an under-rostered NAIA program into a competitive 28-player squad, including a future MLS player, while overseeing operations, sponsorships and facilities for ten athletic programs. His peers selected him as conference chair.

High school and club

Head Coach

Head coach of boys' and girls' high school programs and club sides in Southern California, with teams in the CIF playoffs every season and players placed in NCAA Division I programs.

The Olympic movement

Atlanta Olympic Games and the Bay Area bid

His first paid role was with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, in soccer sales and operations. Years later he was one of nine board members, and the only chief financial officer among them, on the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee during the U.S. bid for the Summer Olympic Games ultimately awarded to Los Angeles.

As a player

Wheaton College and the Grand Rapids Explosion

Captain and MVP at Wheaton College, then a season with the Grand Rapids Explosion of the USISL. He has also run event operations for the NCAA Men's Soccer Final Four and the US Youth Soccer National Championships.

Elsewhere