Christy Winters-Scott

Winters-Scott earned a full scholarship to play collegiate basketball at the University of Maryland from 1986 to 1990. Winters-Scott recorded 1,679 points (second in Maryland history), 723 rebounds (fourth in Maryland history), and played 123 career games (first in school history). Winters is one of only two players to score more than 700 field goals (703) at Maryland. Winters also ranks in the all-time top 10 at Maryland in games started (fourth with 100), blocked shots (fifth with 91) and field goal percentage (eighth with .537).^[3]

Winters-Scott helped Maryland to win its eighth ACC Championship in 1989, and she led the team to its third Final Four appearance. Winters-Scott was named First Team All ACC and Kodak All-East Region, while leading the Terps with 533 points as a senior.^[3]

Winters-Scott spent a year playing in Pistoia, Italy and another two years in Fribourg, Switzerland, after graduating. She averaged 37 points and 12 rebounds per game, and she had a career high of 48 points, while competing for the Euro Cup, in her final professional season in Switzerland.^[4]

Winters-Scott decided to change her focus to coaching after her playing career. She became an assistant coach for George Mason University from 1993 to 1997, Maryland from 1997 to 2002, and Georgetown University from 2004 to 2005. Winters-Scott left Georgetown in 2005, in order to accept the head coaching position for her alma mater, South Lakes High School. The South Lakes team had a record of 0–21 in the year before her arrival. She turned around the program by 2009. The team's record was 19–4, and she earned the Liberty District Coach of the Year Award. The South Lakes team qualified for the Virginia State Tournament in 2013 with a 24–6 record. It was the school's first trip to the state tournament since Winters-Scott won the state championship as a player in 1986. She coached the team through the 2021-2022 season.

Winters-Scott earned the "Women In Sports" Coach of the Year Award in 2013. She was recognized as the top female coach, in any sport, in Fairfax County, Virginia.^[5] Winters-Scott began to broadcast and produce shows for the Roundball Report, on CTV76 in Maryland, during her coaching tenure at South Lakes.^[6]

The Roundball Report shows quickly caught the attention of the DC broadcasting market. Winters-Scott became the new Wizards studio host in 2012, and she called collegiate (men's and women's) basketball on Comcast SportsNet.^[6][7]

Winters-Scott lives today with her husband, Jerome Scott, and three children, in Reston, Virginia. Winters-Scott broadcasts 20 to 30 college games a year, all Mystics TV games, and Wizards games. Winters-Scott also holds an impressive resume of awards: ACC 50th Anniversary Team, South Lakes Athletic Hall of Fame, University of Maryland Hall of Fame, ACC Women's Basketball Legend, Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism, Distinguished Terrapin Award, and was most recently recognized by ESSENCE Magazine as one of the top 12 African American female sports reporters in the Country.^[8]