This Quarter's Coach Profile: Miles Scott

If you find yourself in the Big Valley Christian High School gym on a winter night, there is a chance you will see our boy’s varsity basketball team playing, and there’s a better than average chance they will be winning. One of the main reasons for their success is their coach, Miles Scott.

Miles started playing basketball in the 3rd grade, but it wasn’t until college that he found his talent for coaching. He had finished his eligibility as a player at Holy Names University but still had one year left until he graduated. The  head coach asked him to be a student assistant, and this would start a coaching path that has led him to BVCS as well as 7 years as an AAU coach. Miles says one of his goals as a coach is to help players see the bigger purpose and not get caught up in their personal attributes. He wants them to be able to sacrifice individual goals to help the team. To him, the best thing about coaching is watching players come together and see what God is doing with the team and becoming a brotherhood. It has also been a blessing for him to see BVCS players invite players from the other team to pray together, even from public schools.

When asked about his favorite coaching memory he said it was difficult to pick just one.  He has so many memories and long term relationships with many players he used to coach, even some that are now adults themselves.

When Miles is not coaching you can find him leading junior high and high school students as one of the P.E. teachers as well being the director of boys discipleship where he is developing spiritual relationships with the 7th-12 grade boys by starting Bible studies, prayer groups and getting the families involved.

Miles’ favorite hobby is to spend time with his family: his wife Serina and his daughters, Arabella, age 9, and Sophia, age 5. He enjoys going to the park, playing basketball and trying new things with them.

If Miles had to pick an assistant coach from the Bible he said it would be Moses, as Moses may have not been the best speaker, but he depended on God to do what he needed to do. Even when it wasn’t easy, Moses trusted in God. Miles said that it is hard to pick a single section from the Bible as his favorite verse, but if he had to select one, Proverbs 3:5-6 is something he tries to live by, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”

Written by: Brandon Picanco