Scott

Scott has immersed himself inside the football world since the age of five when he first caught football fever. Scott has played, coached and refereed at all levels from first kicks through to senior football.

He began his football journey in the biggest club in Australasia at the time East Coast Bays, which had over 1,000 junior boys playing. (no girls’ teams in those days). Scott won the Auckland U18 league with East Coast Bays before moving to North Shore. Scott played over 100 Northern League games and over 100 Southern League games in Auckland, Christchurch, Tokoroa, and Northland. During this time he coached junior football as well as school teams. He undertook his first senior coaching course in Northland, and his early coaching career culminated in a two-year stint at Whangarei FC where in the first year he coached the senior women’s team who finished first equal in the Northern Federation Premier League and runner-up in the Federation knock-out competition. Scott was also player-coach in the men’s reserve development team which won the Northland Premier Division. In the second year his women’s team came third in the Federation Premier league and won the Federation knock-out competition. Scott also coached a very youthful men’s team to third place in the Northern Federation Premier League.        

When Scott started his family in Christchurch he couldn’t commit to structured trainings so instead took up refereeing and within one year was refereeing at a senior level. Once his daughters reached age four Scott re-entered the coaching environment with first kicks football. Scott and his family moved to Rotorua in 2016 and has been coaching an all-girls Ngongotaha team that has developed into the Waiariki youth girls team. Scott has undertaken the NZF Junior Level Three Coaching course as well as the OFC C License.

Scott has also undertaken post graduate courses in Advanced Athlete Physiology and Sports Psychology.  Having coached players of all ages and abilities, Scott says he enjoys coaching younger players the most as he “loves the look on their faces when they learn a new skill for the first time. It is amazing to see players develop more than they thought possible, and become more confident individuals at the same time”.