Garrett Scantling

[1] Scantling is currently serving a three year competition ban issued in 2022 following a violation of anti-doping rules.

[2] Scantling caught 13 touchdowns for over 1,200 yards as a senior wide receiver in High School.

After winning the 2015 NCAA indoor heptathlon but finishing fourth in the decathlon at the US Olympic trials in 2016 and therefore missing out on selection for the Summer Games in Rio, Scantling signed a free agent contract with the Atlanta Falcons as a wide receiver but never debuted in the NFL.

[4] In 2019 Scantling left his financial services job in Jacksonville and went to Athens, Georgia to his former UGA coach, Petros Kyprianou in order to concentrate on decathlon again.

[11] In November 2022 he was banned from competing for three years backdated to June 27, 2022, the date of his third whereabouts violation in a twelve-month period.