Matt Scott vying for ESPY award
Released: July 7, 2008
Matt Scott appears in Nike commercial
He just keeps doing it. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater senior Matt Scott has another achievement to add to his already impressive list. Scott was nominated for a 2008 ESPY for “Best Male Athlete with a Disability.” Voting is going on now and the awards ceremony will take place at 8 p.m. July 20 on ESPN.
“This is incredible. When I began playing basketball, I wanted to be the best just like anyone else playing a sport, but never would I have thought that I’d be up for such a prestigious award,” Scott said. “Just being nominated is really a dream come true.”
Scott was a senior on the powerhouse team and is on the 2008 U.S. national wheelchair basketball team. He hasn’t gotten by just on talent, of which he has a considerable amount, but with hard work and determination as well. “Matt is very deserving of the nomination and the award,” Scott’s coach at UW-Whitewater Tracy Chynoweth said. “He works very hard, he has the talent but he doesn’t rest and works hard every day to get better.”
Scott is a social work major from Detroit and came to the university in 2005. He started playing wheelchair basketball at the age of 14 and has been dedicated to it ever since. “Nothing’s come easy to Matt, it’s good to see his hard work paying off,” Chynoweth said. “This is just another ladder rung on his already amazing career.”
The ESPY’s are given out yearly to deserving figures in the sports world. The winners of the awards are determined by on-line fan voting and the awards will be given out on July 20 in a ceremony hosted by Justin Timberlake. To vote for Scott, go to www.espys.tv.
- Tom Applegarth,applegartg17@uww.edu
