Hamilton College

Scott Siddon joined Hamilton's sports medicine team in August 1995. He spent eight years as assistant athletic trainer before being named head athletic trainer/director of sports medicine in 2003. In 2016 Siddon was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletics for Sports Medicine and Performance. He oversees all daily athletic training room operations, including injury management and rehabilitation, staff assignments and ensuring medical coverage for all Continental student athletes. Siddon has spent time in a variety of areas within sports medicine, including aquatic and rehabilitative therapy in an outpatient-based rehabilitation facility.

Siddon earned a master's degree in exercise and movement science from the University of Oregon in 1994. He worked with the Ducks’ men's basketball, cross country, track & field and football teams. He earned his bachelor’s degree from SUNY Cortland.

Over the past two decades Siddon has honed his craft through the US Olympic Committee’s sports medicine program, providing preventative, rehabilitative and emergency care as well as manual therapy to Olympic hopefuls in both Chula Vista, Calif., and Colorado Springs, Colo. Siddon is Graston Technique certified and functional movement screening trained and is a certified strength and conditioning specialist. He is also an American Red Cross instructor for first aid, CPR and AED training.

Siddon is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Medical Aspects in Sport Committee, helping to identify sport safety concerns and their solutions within the conference.

He is a National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) certified athletic trainer and a licensed athletic trainer. In addition to his sports medicine duties, Siddon Scott is also heavily involved in administering summer sport camps and clinics as well as event management at Hamilton.

He and his wife, Cindy, live in Clinton with their children Mackenzie and Cooper.