Jack Scott built his reputation in athletics as a tenacious basketball and baseball player at Ellsworth High School and Husson College. He continued to achieve excellence as a coach at Ellsworth.

Scott is among 11 people who will be inducted Saturday into the Maine Sports Legends’ Hall of Honors, which recognizes people for their service to Maine youth.

The late John Coombs of Bangor is the other honoree from eastern Maine. Northern Maine representatives are Bill Casavant and Steve Shaw along with posthumous inductees James Dyer and Don Smith.

Central and western Maine “legends” are Ken Walsh and the late Raymond “Pop” Vear, while southern Maine inductees are the late Mike Landry, Philip “Jack” Dawson and Rodney Wotton.

Those men, along with eight high school scholarship recipients, will be recognized Saturday at noon at the Alfond Youth Center in Waterville. Tickets are $35 and can be obtained by calling 622-1539 or by emailing PaulMcClay@msn.com.

Maine Sports Legends banquet proceeds fund $500 scholarships for eight outstanding high school students from around the state.

Scholarship recipients are Kelsie Bouchard, Fort Kent; Hannah Breton, Greenville; Bryant Ciomei, Deer Isle-Stonington; Caleb Swanberg, Caribou; Owen Smith and Aimee Tetu, Brunswick; Allison Cheever, Cony; and Matthew Low, Lawrence.

Scott, a Surry native, graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1954. He was a member of the Eagles’ undefeated 1953 and 1954 state champion basketball teams.

Scott was selected both years to the Eastern Maine and New England all-tournament teams. In 1954 he was named a high school All-American.

Scott played one year of basketball and baseball at the University of Connecticut, then signed a Red Sox minor league contract. In 1959 he enrolled at Husson College.

He taught business at Ellsworth and embarked on a coaching career in basketball and baseball that spanned 291/2 years, including two years at Georges Valley in Thomaston.

Scott’s baseball teams won several Eastern Maine and state titles.

Casavant, a native of Holyoke, Mass., has been a fixture in Aroostook County sports since attending the University of Maine-Presque Isle.

Casavant began his career in 1972 as a teacher at Limestone High, where he coached boys soccer, basketball and baseball before accepting a job at Northern Maine Technical Institute.

He coached UMPI basketball and soccer for four years and held the hoop post for seven years at NMTI. He is the director of admissions at Northern Maine Community College.

Casavant has umpired baseball for 37 years, officiated soccer games for 25 years and done basketball for five years. He also has spent 23 years calling play-by-play of high school basketball games on local radio.

This winter, he will give that up to serve as an assistant to son Chris, the boys basketball coach Chris at Caribou High.

Shaw is the athletic director in the Easton School District, where he has been employed for the last 38 years. He graduated from Aroostook Central Institute, earned an undergraduate degree from Gordon College and a master’s of education from UMaine.

Shaw taught history and coached varsity basketball at Easton, leading teams to 13 Eastern Maine tournaments, including a Class D championship in 1980.

He later took Central Aroostook to the tournament four straight years and guided it to a state championship in 1994.

Coombs was born in Belfast, graduating from Crosby High School in 1945. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1951 and completed postgraduate studies at Springfield College and Kent State University.

He was a fixture at the Bangor YMCA and later served as its physical director and executive diretor. He directed Camp Prentiss, reorganized the Leaders Club and started several youth basketball Leagues.

Coombs also developed gymnastics programs, organized an adult fitness program and established the Maine YMCA Leaders’ School at Camp Jordan in Ellsworth.

He created a statewide YMCA Swimming League in 1953 and served as State YMCA Competitive Swimming Commissioner for 20 years.

In 1984, the swimming pool at the Bangor YMCA was dedicated in his honor.

Smith, a Presque Isle native, earned 16 varsity letters at Easton High School in cross country, winter sports (skiing and snowshoeing), basketball and baseball. At UMaine he won four straight New England Intercollegiate Cross Country Championships.

Indoors, Smith set UMaine records in the mile, half-mile and 1,000-yard events. In 1939 he was runner-up at the National AAU mile and third in the NCAA mile. He was nicknamed “The Easton Express.”

He coached winter sports at Aroostook Central Institute and Easton High before becoming athletic director at Presque Isle High for 13 years. His career in education spanned 38 years.

In 1992 he was inducted in the Maine Sports Hall of Fame.

Dyer, who was born in Dover-Foxcroft, lettered in football, basketball and track at Foxcroft Academy. He also excelled athletically and academically at Bowdoin College.

Dyer joined the staff at Presque Isle High School where he taught math and coached the varsity baseball team. The school’s baseball field was named in his honor.

Vear lettered in football, basketball and baseball at Winslow High (Class of ’44) before moving on to Farmington State Teachers College, where he was later named to the school’s hall of fame.

Vear coached for more than 50 years, including basketball, football and baseball at Waterville, softball at Winslow and youth baseball. He also was a longtime basketball official and softball umpire.

Walsh came to Maine as executive director of the Waterville Area Boys & Girls Club and later accepted the position as chief executive director of the Alfond Youth Center.

Walsh has guided the Waterville operation through a period of growth that has resulted in a major expansion of the gymnasium and addition of the Alfond Library and a swimming pool.

Walsh led a fundraising drive to construction a miniature Fenway Park at the club’s McGrath Pond summer camp.

Dawson, of Portland, has coordinated the selection of the Fitzpatrick Trophy since its inception in 1971. He taught and coached at Cheverus, Westbrook and Portland, was athletic director at Saint Joseph’s College and is the director of admissions at Cheverus.

Dawson was inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.

Wotton, a York resident, has coached successful football teams at Marshwood High School in Maine and Thomas Aquinas Academy in New Hampshire. His teams won 17 state titles in Maine and four in New Hampshire, while racking up 317 victories in 44 seasons.

He also has coached track and field, basketball and lacrosse.

Landry was a Springvale native who starred in football and basketball at Biddeford, graduating in 1967. At UMaine he received honorable mention to the All-New England football team in 1970.

Mike taught and coached at Biddeford High for 22 years, 17 years as head coach. He later was an assistant coach at Portland and consulted at Greely to help start its program.

Landry also coached at Westbrook in 2003 and 2004.