Scott Byrd will be starting his second year as the head track coach and came to Shorter from Velocity Sports, where he was an assistant head coach for Team Velocity.

Byrd is USAW Club Coach and USAW Sports Performance certified. In 1980, he was the national collegiate power lifting champion and coached OTC from 1994-1996. He served as an IDEA Certified Trainer from 1987-2000 and is a professional member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Byrd coached 12 school-age national champion athletes including three gold medalists, four silver medalists and one bronze medalist. He coached a three-member competition team that won third place nationally and also coached three junior national athletes, including one silver medalist.

Byrd graduated from Fayette County High School in 1979 after lettering all four years in varsity football and varsity track. He then graduated from Jacksonville State University in 1985. In addition to football duties, Byrd will also be coaching Shorter's track program in its second year in 2008.