FREDDIE L. SCOTT coached football, basketball and tennis for 25 years in Sweetwater and is credited with talking the UIL into having team tennis as a fall sport. Both father and son are in the Texas Tennis Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
FRED (DERF) W. SCOTT won a tennis state doubles title as a senior at Sweetwater. He played tennis at Eastern Kentucky, Amarillo College and Hardin-Simmons. He then coached tennis at Mason, New Braunfels, Sweetwater, North Texas State, Plainview and Abilene High. He was 247-47 at Abilene High, won 10 district team championships and won the 1999 5A state team tennis championship.
