Scott Goodman

Scott William Goodman (born 27 June 1960) is a leading Australian Paralympic athletics coach and sports administrator.

Goodman was born on 27 June 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria. In the 1980, he was a physical education teacher in Tasmania. In 1990, he completed a Master of Applied Science at Phillip Institute of Technology. His thesis was titled: An Investigation of the physical fitness of Victorian spinal cord dysfunction children and youth. In 1990, he moved to Canberra to work at the Australian Coaching Council, which was located at the Australian Institute of Sport. Between 1990 and 1998, he worked in the area of coaching athletes with a disability. and 2008 Beijing Games. He was an athletics manager at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games .

In May 2011, Goodman was appointed High Performance Manager for Athletics New Zealand

He has coached both able bodied and athletes with a disability over 20 years. Notable able bodied athletes include Stuart Rendell, duel Commonwealth Games gold medallist and Tim Driesen, national hammer throw title holder. Paralympic athletes that he has coached include: Hamish MacDonald, Damien Burroughs, Amanda Fraser, Murray Goldfinch, Wayne Bell and Michael Dowling. His work for disability sport was recognised in 2000 with the Australian Sports Medal and in 2008 with the Paralympic Medal. The later medal is the highest form of recognition available for a non-Paralympic competitor involved with in Australian Paralympic sport.