Scott Shipley


Scott R. Shipley is an American slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1988 to 2004.
He won three silver medals in the K1 event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, earning them in 1995, 1997, and 1999. He won the overall World Cup title in K1 three times. In 2010, he became U.S. national champion in C2.
Shipley also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fifth in the K1 event in Sydney in 2000.
With Mechanical Engineering degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, Bachelors 2001, Masters 2002, he retired from full-time competition for a job with S2O Design and Engineering, in Boulder, Colorado. In that job, he assisted Gary Lacy in the design of the $37 million U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, which opened in 2006. In a redesign of the man-made whitewater park concept, Shipley is patenting Rapidblocs—plastic structures that can be moved to create different rapids. Rapidblocs are utilized in the London Olympic Whitewater Park, whose rapids his company, S2o, designed. The Rapidblocs allow the park to adjust their rapids to appeal to a wider audience than the Olympic Kayakers that will utilize them in the games.

World Cup individual podiums

SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent
199231 May 1992Nottingham1stK1
199318 Jul 1993La Seu d'Urgell2ndK1
199321 Aug 1993Minden3rdK1
199331 Aug 1993Ocoee1stK1
199410 Jul 1994Bourg St.-Maurice1stK1
199418 Sep 1994Asahi, Aichi3rdK1
199516 Jul 1995Lofer2ndK1
19951 Oct 1995Ocoee1stK1
199621 Apr 1996Ocoee1stK1
19969 Jun 1996La Seu d'Urgell2ndK1
199616 Jun 1996Augsburg3rdK1
199729 Jun 1997Björbo3rdK1
199728 Jul 1997Ocoee2ndK1
19973 Aug 1997Minden1stK1
199814 Jun 1998Liptovský Mikuláš1stK1
199828 Jun 1998Augsburg3rdK1
19982 Aug 1998Wausau1stK1
199920 Jun 1999Tacen1stK1
199924 Jun 1999Tacen3rdK1
199915 Aug 1999Bratislava2ndK1
199922 Aug 1999Augsburg1stK1
19993 Oct 1999Penrith3rdK1
200030 Apr 2000Penrith3rdK1
200030 Jul 2000Augsburg1stK1