Hood College

Longtime Boonsboro High School coach Dwight Scott joined theHood track and field coaching staff for the 2011-12 season.

Scott mentored the Warriors for 52 years in various sportsincluding track and field, cross country and football. He guidedthe Boonsboro’s girls to five state championships and coached38 individual state champions in hurdles (10 boys, 20 girls) andseven more in the pole vault (six boys, one girls). In 19 yearswith the cross country program, his squads captured five Marylandstate titles and crowned three individual champions.

Scott was named Maryland Coach of the Year in 1985 and wasinducted into the Washington County Hall of the Fame in 1989.

A 1953 graduate of Western Maryland College (now McDanielCollege), Scott ran track for one year and played football forfour. He went on to earn a master’s degree in physicaleducation from the University of Maryland in 1965. Originally fromWashington, D.C., he also lettered in track and field and footballat Washington & Lee High School in Arlington, Va.