Scott Hamilton
Olympic Gold Medal Figure Skater
Began Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation in 2014
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Scott Hamilton likes to say he’s made a hobby of collecting life-threatening illnesses. While that isn’t his day job, it’s certainly part of his story, and it’s why he’s so passionate about encouraging others to live their days.
The Olympic Gold Medalist figure skater has experienced many unique
highlights throughout his life, captivating the world at the 1984 Olympic Winter Games, then building an extensive career through sports commentary, performing and authoring two best-selling books, with the next best seller, Finish First: Winning Changes Everything being released in February 2018.
But for all the success, he has also experienced deep heartbreak right alongside it. Scott has faced the devastating effects of cancer time and time again, first by losing his mother to the disease, and then having been diagnosed with it himself. In 1997, he overcame testicular cancer. In 2004 and 2010, he survived recurring (non-cancerous) pituitary brain tumors. He was diagnosed with a third occurrence of the benign pituitary brain tumor in 2016 and is celebrating its miraculous shrinking as of today.
Despite these hardships, Scott has never lost his hope. In fact, it’s grown stronger. A passion was born in Scott to not only live each one of his days to the fullest, but to use his life to encourage others to do the same. Rather than weighing him down, these difficult circumstances have propelled him forward to a deeper faith in God, and a stronger drive to make a difference.
In 2014, he created the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation, by expanding the mission of the Initiative he began at the Cleveland Clinic in 1998. CARES stands for the Cancer Alliance for Research, Education and Survivorship, and funds cancer research and early detection programs. Also in 2014, in giving back to the skating community, he founded the Scott Hamilton Skating Academy, in partnership with the Nashville Predators, in Antioch, TN, and expanding to the new, second Ford Ice Center in Bellevue, TN in the fall of 2019.
Scott lives outside Nashville with his beautiful wife Tracie and their 4 amazing kids, and enjoys golfing whenever his hectic schedule allows.
The Olympic Gold Medalist figure skater has experienced many unique
highlights throughout his life, captivating the world at the 1984 Olympic Winter Games, then building an extensive career through sports commentary, performing and authoring two best-selling books, with the next best seller, Finish First: Winning Changes Everything being released in February 2018.
But for all the success, he has also experienced deep heartbreak right alongside it. Scott has faced the devastating effects of cancer time and time again, first by losing his mother to the disease, and then having been diagnosed with it himself. In 1997, he overcame testicular cancer. In 2004 and 2010, he survived recurring (non-cancerous) pituitary brain tumors. He was diagnosed with a third occurrence of the benign pituitary brain tumor in 2016 and is celebrating its miraculous shrinking as of today.
Despite these hardships, Scott has never lost his hope. In fact, it’s grown stronger. A passion was born in Scott to not only live each one of his days to the fullest, but to use his life to encourage others to do the same. Rather than weighing him down, these difficult circumstances have propelled him forward to a deeper faith in God, and a stronger drive to make a difference.
In 2014, he created the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation, by expanding the mission of the Initiative he began at the Cleveland Clinic in 1998. CARES stands for the Cancer Alliance for Research, Education and Survivorship, and funds cancer research and early detection programs. Also in 2014, in giving back to the skating community, he founded the Scott Hamilton Skating Academy, in partnership with the Nashville Predators, in Antioch, TN, and expanding to the new, second Ford Ice Center in Bellevue, TN in the fall of 2019.
Scott lives outside Nashville with his beautiful wife Tracie and their 4 amazing kids, and enjoys golfing whenever his hectic schedule allows.
