Scott Van Pelt Shares Incredible News With Stuart Scott’s Daughters in Touching ‘SportsCenter’ Moment

July’s ESPY Awards will mark 10 years since one of the show’s most impactful moments: Stuart Scott’s inspirational speech as the recipient of the Jimmy V Award. The speech came just months before Scott’s untimely death in January 15 after a lengthy boy with appendiceal cancer.

Scott’s family founded the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund soon after his death, as part of the V Foundation. The fund, which strives to close the racial disparity gap in cancer death rates and ultimately end cancer, got a huge lift this week, as announced by Scott’s former SportsCenter co-anchor Scott Van Pelt.

Van Pelt invited Scott’s daughters, Taelor and Sydni, onto his late night edition of SportsCenter to share some incredible news for the fund. All money raised by the V Foundation from now until the ESPYs on July 11 will go to the fund, and an anonymous donor has pledged to match up to $75,000 in donations.

“Don’t go crying and make me cry on TV,” Van Pelt said as he surprised the Scott daughters with the news. “I’ve been praying all day, ‘Lord, don’t let me cry on television.’”

Scott’s daughters called the news “life-changing and future-preserving” for the foundation, as all three on the show fought through tears.

“Taelor and I, we talk about this a lot,” Sydni Scott said. “That it’s stunning and amazing to meet families who are, as we’ve said, part of the worst club in the world. But in recent years Taelor and I have talked to the researchers themselves, and the way that the money donated goes to their research, goes to their resources, goes to supporting them, goes to supporting their family … Thank you.”

The V Foundation has raised over $18 million for the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund, and as Van Pelt said, it is poised to add significantly to that number with this new campaign.

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