Scott represented Great Britain in the 5000 metres at the 2017 London and the 2019 Doha World Athletics Championships and at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

[4] He grew up playing football as well as running, and was "moderately" successful as a high school runner according to Tulsa World.

[4] Tulsa's cross country and distance coach Steve Gulley claimed that he did not seek international recruits, but that Scott reached out to him.

In addition to this, an accomplished British runner put in a good word for Scott.

-Steve Gulley[4]""No, I was always going to be on the start line unless I was told otherwise..." On 5 June 2017 Scott was admitted to hospital for a seizure he experienced four miles into a regular training run.