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Victor Scott was born in Butler to Mr. and Mrs. Victor Louis Scott. He went to Butler Elementary and Choctaw County High School. While attending CCHS he lettered four years in football and baseball.

He wasn’t offered an athletic scholarship and didn’t think he would be able to go to college. He got a summer job at Marathon Southern Paper Mill. With that and help from his parents he was able to graduate from college at what is now The University of West Alabama.

He chose to get his degree in Business Administration. Victor got a job in that field and hated every minute of it. He returned to school to get certified in a field that he actually enjoyed and received his certificate in education.

Victor was in school at The University of Alabama when he got a call from Sammie Daniels, who had recently been appointed principal of Sweet Water High School. He had an interview in Sweet Water and when he arrived, he was greeted by Sammie, Fred Ramsey and Coach Nolan Atkins (Class of 2009).

Whether there was a lack of candidates or not, he was hired at that meeting as assistant football and head baseball coach. It changed his life forever. It wasn’t just the start of a career but an opportunity to make lifelong friends.
He started his career, in a community that really cared about academics and athletics, with a head coach that would go on to become one of the greatest high school coaches in Alabama, Coach Nolan Atkins. He felt quite sure that immediately he was more of a liability than an asset, but was improving. In football, he moved to defensive coordinator.

He said, “Our players have always been competitive and finished runner up on different years, we seemed to really be putting it together in 1978.”

Sweet Water had a strong team and won the state championship. Much of that same energy filtered over into the baseball program. The Bulldogs also had a strong baseball team. We had been competitive state wide for several years narrowly losing to the state runner up. That year, our kids did not falter and we won the 1979 state baseball championship.

In 1970, Sweet Water High School received bad news. The school was to be closed and consolidated. Sweet Water lost a lot of people to that federal court action but at the last moment under the leadership of Fred Ramsey, the school was saved. Sweet Water High School quickly began to rebuild our program and was in a good position as they won the football and baseball state championship. The federal court took this opportunity to help us celebrate.

Once again Sweet Water was closed and designated a 4-6 school. Fred Ramsey had stepped down as superintendent and Marcus Waters became superintendent. Marcus asked Victor if he would become principal of Sweet Water and he accepted. That effectively ended his coaching career and started another. This experience
led him to accept another position in 1980 as principal of Greensboro High School. He retired from the Hale County School System in 2005.

Victor stated that education and athletics have been very good to him. It created circumstances where he met and married his wife Ginger and blessed them with two daughters, Brynna and Marla.

He humbly said, “Much of the credit goes to the place that chose and supported me as one of their own.”