Scott Robinson used to toss a football with his dad in the backyard. Now he's playing catch with the pros in the Canadian Football League.
He first tried football at age 11 with the Coquitlam Wildcats, but it wasn't his only sport. He also played with Golden Ears Soccer club and Ridge Meadows Minor Baseball Association squads into his late teens.
At school, he was into basketball at Maple Ridge Elementary, and basketball and rugby at Maple Ridge Secondary for grades 8 to 10. He played football at Terry Fox in Port Coquitlam for half of Grade 11 before finishing the year at Thomas Haney. In 1996, he graduated from Westview where he'd played both soccer and basketball.
Other sports gave him fitness and fun, but football fueled his ambition. After excelling with the Simon Fraser University team, he was picked by the BC Lions in the 2001 CFL draft. He is now a wide receiver with the Edmonton Eskimos. Wherever his career takes him, Scott is proud to say he's from Maple Ridge. As he describes it, "I'm just a kid who grew up in Maple Ridge and followed his dream."