[4] In 1989 Scott was selected in the West Australian senior men's eight to compete at the Interstate Regatta for the King's Cup.

[11] In 1990 Scott was elevated to the Australian men's eight and he raced in that crew at the 1990 World Rowing Championships in Lake Barrington, Tasmania to a seventh-place ranking.

The eight was full of fresh faces and to comply with AOC guidelines needed additional international experience and results to justify selection.

The crew qualified and in Barcelona 1992 Rob Scott stroked the eight to the Olympic final and a fifth-place finish.

[11] Two years later at the 1995 World Championships in Tampere, Scott was again in the stroke seat for the Australian eight's eleventh-place finish.

However Scott and Queenslander David Weightman won the national title that year and were chosen by selectors to row the coxless pair at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Aside from the Olympic silver that year, he had won gold and silver at international regattas in Cologne and Duisburg, gold in the pre-Olympic trials in Lucerne and had won two Australian national titles (the open coxless pair and open coxless four – both at stroke) at the 1996 Australian Rowing Championships.

They both regained seats in their state eights at the national level in 1999 and 2000 and as Australian representatives they raced a coxless pair at two World Rowing Cups in Europe in 1999 and again in 2000.

[15] Weightman and Scott weren't picked to the Australian squad for the 1999 World Championships and ultimately did not qualify for Sydney 2000.

[3] Scott is married to Australian Olympic gold-medal winning water polo player Liz Weekes.