Shaun W. Scott of Millersville was honored at the recent Toledo Bowsher High School Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony as a part of the 1965 Bowsher wrestling team. Scott was a co-captain of the team and a repeat First Team All-City wrestler. Six former team members attended the ceremony.
At the 1965 Ohio high school state wrestling championship, the Bowsher wrestling team tied for fourth among all Ohio schools for qualifying the most wrestlers for the state championship tournament with a total of four. The team tied for third place after the second round. At the time, there was only one size classification for Ohio high schools and 372 schools participated in the one-class system.
Prior to the 1965 state tournament, the Bowsher team had placed in its district state qualifying tournament in eighth, 10th, 14th, and 19th places.
Scott continued his wrestling career as the first Northwestern Ohio wrestler to get a wrestling scholarship to a top-three wrestling school - Oklahoma. Following college, Scott continued to earn 40 national medals in wrestling type sports in the over 20-year-old age category.
Since moving to Millersville in 2005, Scott has competed for the USA, earning 12 national medals in sports such as Sombo, belt wrestling, combat wrestling, and gi and no-gi grappling as well as one international medal in Greco-Roman wrestling. He also competed in three world championships, including two in gi grappling and one no-gi grappling.
Scott has occasionally competed for the U.S. Virgin Islands where he has established residency and had business interests. His Virgin Island competitions included 29th place in the 2005 World Greco-Roman wrestling championships in Budapest, Hungary; two medals in the Pan-American Sombo Championships; and two medals in the World Cup of Sombo in Nice, France.
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