Matt Scott (basketball)
Matt Scott (born March 27, 1985) is an American wheelchair basketball player. Biography Matt Scott was born in Detroit, Michigan, where he began playing wheelchair basketball with the Sterling Heights Challengers in the NWBA Junior Division. As a high schooler, he was on the gold medal-winning US team at the 2007 Parapan American Games in Brazil, where he was coached by Tracy Chynoweth, head coach of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's college wheelchair basketball team. Scott played five years for the UW-Whitewater Warhawks in the NWBA College Division, winning championships three out of five years in 2004, 2005, and 2007. During his time at Whitewater, he competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics and 2008 Summer Paralympics. He also won a silver medal at IWBF World Championship in 2006 in Amsterdam. He was nominated for the Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award in 2008. After college, Scott played professionally for Galatasaray S.K. in Istanbul, Turkey for six seasons from 2008 to 2014. In 2012, Matt Scott helped Team USA to a bronze medal in their 61–46 victory over Great Britain. Scott continued his professional career with Comune Di Porto Torres in Italy for two seasons from 2014 to 2016, during which