Ryan Scott (rugby)

Ryan Scott

2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Scott
Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1982-03-03) 3 March 1982 (age 35)
Sport
Disability class	0.5
Medal record Wheelchair rugby Paralympic Games 2008 Beijing Mixed 2012 London Mixed 2016 Rio Mixed World Championships 2010 Vancouver Mixed 2014 Odense Mixed

Ryan Scott, OAM (born 3 March 1982) is a Paralympic wheelchair rugby competitor from Australia. In four Paralympics, Scott has won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and gold medals at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Paralympics.

Scott was born on 3 March 1982. On the 6 June 1998 as a 16-year-old, he became a quadriplegic due to a car crash on a country road on route to Victor Harbor, South Australia. At the time of the accident, he was a year 11 student at Willunga High School. The accident left Scott paralysed from his chest down but he has some movement in his shoulders, back, biceps and forearms. He moved to Brisbane from Adelaide in 2009 due to the warm weather and due to Queensland having a good wheelchair rugby program.

Scott took up wheelchair rugby as part of his rehabiliation. Scott said "I always loved sport and participated in all kinds of sport – soccer, basketball, Aussie rules, pretty much every sport except able-bodied rugby. As a quadriplegic, I didn’t have the upper-body strength to play wheelchair basketball. When I saw wheelchair rugby, that’s when I thought that sport was still possible." Scott made his debut for the Australian team 'Steelers' in August 2001. He was a member of the Steelers that came fifth at the 2004 Athens Paralympics. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event. He won a gold medal at the 2012 London Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event.

He was a member of the Steelers that finished with the silver medal at the 2010 World Championships and gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships at Odense, Denmark.