Women
CAN
Alexa Scott
CAN- Date of birth03 Apr 2001
- ProfessionAthlete
- HometownCalgary
- Start skating / Club She took up speed skating in 2010 in Brandon, MB, Canada. "I started speed skating when I was nine and I transitioned to the Manitoba provincial team when I was 13." / Interlake Speed Skating Club: Canada
- HobbiesReading. (Athlete, 09 Feb 2023)
- LanguagesEnglish
- Other nameLexi (Athlete, 09 Feb 2023)
- CoachRemmelt Eldering [national], NED; Shannon Rempel [national], CAN
- ChoreographerN/A
- Former CoachN/A
- Practice low seasonN/A
- Practice high seasonN/A
- General Interest
- Sport Specific Information
She was named the 2019 Junior Athlete of the Year by Sport Manitoba in Canada. (sportmanitoba.ca, 01 Mar 2021; winnipeg.ctvnews.ca, 28 Apr 2020)
"Trust the process." (Athlete, 09 Feb 2023)
Dutch speed skater Ireen Wust, US bobsleigher Kaillie Humphries, and her father. (Athlete, 09 Feb 2023; speedskating.ca, 01 Jan 2022)
She was the youngest member of Canada's speed skating team at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, where she took part in the women's 1000m event at age 20 years and 320 days. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Nov 2022)
Coach Tyler Williamson-Derraugh. (Athlete, 09 Feb 2023; olympic.ca, 01 Jan 2022)
Illness disrupted her training ahead of the 2020 World Junior Championships. She went on to place third in the overall classification at the tournament in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland. (winnipeg.ctvnews.ca, 28 Apr 2020; speedskating.ca, 22 Feb 2020)
She was troubled by a back injury for eight weeks prior to winning gold medals in all four distances at the 2020 Canadian Junior Championships in Calgary, Alberta. (speedskating.ca, 06 Jan 2020)
She was troubled by a back injury for eight weeks prior to winning gold medals in all four distances at the 2020 Canadian Junior Championships in Calgary, Alberta. (speedskating.ca, 06 Jan 2020)
To win an individual medal at the Olympic Winter Games. (Athlete, 09 Feb 2023)
Competing at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. (Athlete, 09 Feb 2023)
EARLY INJURIES
She struggled with back injuries early in her career, which she attributes to skating from an early age. "I did do a lot of speed skating as a kid. I did a lot. My power muscles were very strong at a young age. But my body had not been programmed enough to stabilise my joints. I got a lot of back injuries at a pretty young age, like 16. It was because my stabilising muscles weren't stabilising. They were completely neglected in my body. Maybe if I hadn't focused on speed skating so early in my life, I could have saved some of those injuries. I would have developed some of those stabilising muscles from soccer, especially like stopping and turning. I think if I did more sports in middle school, especially, I could have maybe limited how aggressive that injury was." (sportmanitoba.ca, 01 Mar 2021)
She struggled with back injuries early in her career, which she attributes to skating from an early age. "I did do a lot of speed skating as a kid. I did a lot. My power muscles were very strong at a young age. But my body had not been programmed enough to stabilise my joints. I got a lot of back injuries at a pretty young age, like 16. It was because my stabilising muscles weren't stabilising. They were completely neglected in my body. Maybe if I hadn't focused on speed skating so early in my life, I could have saved some of those injuries. I would have developed some of those stabilising muscles from soccer, especially like stopping and turning. I think if I did more sports in middle school, especially, I could have maybe limited how aggressive that injury was." (sportmanitoba.ca, 01 Mar 2021)
She trains at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, AB, Canada.
She tried figure skating at first but was not very interested, so she switched to speed skating. She was also inspired by the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. "I would just rush through my programme [while figure skating] because I hated all the twirls and stuff. But I loved skating, so my coach is like, 'You should go try speed skating'. So I went out to Brandon, Manitoba. My mum drove me out. And I tried speed skating, and I've been hooked ever since."
Remmelt Eldering [national], NED; Shannon Rempel [national], CAN
