In 2009, Scott was a senior at Hollidaysburg Area High School where he played on the boys’ soccer team. He also attended the Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center majoring in electronics. He was vice president and he received the senior of the year award for electronics. Scott planned on attending the Pennsylvania Highlands Community College to major in nanotechnology.

Scott was well liked by his teachers and peers and was known for being very outgoing and kind. He enjoyed playing paintball with his friends and he loved writing, composing music, and playing his guitar in a band he had with his younger brother and some friends. Scott was a hard worker. He had an after-school job which allowed him to purchase his first car on which he proudly displayed his GARLICK license plate.

On Monday April 6, 2009, Scott was working his after-school job at the Subway on 58th street in Altoona when he was fatally shot in an attempted robbery.

To honor Scott’s life and to keep his memory alive his parents Jim and Amy Garlick established a scholarship fund with the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation. With the help of the community, family, and friends, the funds grew into 2 scholarships that are awarded every year. One to a Hollidaysburg Area senior soccer player and one to a senior in the electronics department at GACTC. In 2019 a third scholarship was introduced, The Blair County United Survivor Scholarship, awarding a surviving family member of a victim of a violent crime.

Who would have thought that a small-town high school senior could leave such a legacy? Thanks to the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation he does.