Feels like flying: UVic athlete earns spot on Canada’s NextGen Skeleton team

Adam Scott didn’t expect his athletic path to lead him headfirst down a sheet of ice at nearly 100 kilometres an hour, but the first time he climbed off a skeleton sled in Calgary last summer, the political-science student felt something click.
“I got up out of the sled and I just was like on cloud nine,” Scott told Saanich News. “It felt like I was flying.”
That moment helped steer the 21-year-old away from soccer, the sport he’d played for 18 years, and towa