Chris Scott was named assistant director of athletics for academic services in April 2004. Scott joined Samford as director of academic enhancement in June 2001.

He oversees Samford's Academic Enhancement Program [AEP], which provides guidance, personal attention and academic skills enhancement to student-athletes through proper academic advising, counseling and tutorial assistance. Additionally, he assists Samford administrators in the areas of NCAA compliance.

Scott serves as Samford's chapter adviser of the Chi Alpha Sigma National Student-Athlete Honor Society. He is also a Samford S.U.ccess program staff mentor, academic adviser for students with undeclared majors and a member of the University's CHAMPS/ Life Skills Athletics Advisory Board.

Before joining the athletics department full-time, Scott served as a graduate assistant for Senior Associate Director of Athletics Peter Neuberger for three years. During that time, he assisted in the areas of academic advising, student-staff mentoring, compliance and game-day operations. He also served one semester as an intern in the Samford Department of Counseling Services.

Before coming to Samford, Scott worked as the lead high school sports writer for The Pensacola News Journal in Pensacola, Fla., for three years. During that time, he was responsible for 19 high school athletics teams in the Florida panhandle area and covered four high school state championship teams.

Scott completed a master of education degree from the University of Montevallo in Spring 2001 and is a 1994 graduate of the University of Alabama with a B.A. in communication.

He is a native of Fairfield, Ala., and recently married the former Regina Ruffin of Athens, Ala.