Champion in the Community

What started as an effort to recruit potential sled hockey players (Scott had been coaching the Flyers Adult Sled Hockey team since 2010) soon grew into something more.

“Keith took the conversation one step further and suggested incorporating the sled hockey team into the hospital’s programming,” Scott remembered with a smile.

And while they successfully integrated sled hockey into the programming at the hospital for a period of time, it is volunteering and tennis that sustains the long and impactful relationship between Scott and Jefferson Moss-Magee. 

Tennis quickly became a common bond between Scott and fellow lifelong tennis player and Senior Vice President of Development at Jefferson Moss-Magee, Ron Siggs. Siggs asked Scott to sit in on committee meetings, attend the hospital’s annual fundraiser at Germantown Cricket Club and was eventually placed on the Board of Directors for the Jefferson Moss-Magee Foundation.

However, it wasn’t until tennis and basketball player Jonathan Hayashi asked Scott to attend one of the tennis team's practices at RiverWinds Golf and Tennis Club in West Deptford, N.J. did he believe coaching wheelchair tennis was in his future. 

“When I showed up to my first practice at RiverWinds Tennis Club in South Jersey, there were about six players hitting balls and playing points with no real direction for practice,” he said. “ I asked them if they would like to run through some drills. They were very receptive to the idea and by the end of the practice, they were asking if I would come out on a regular basis to run practices.”