Scales will serve as the team's equipment manager for her first time for the U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team.

Scales is currently in her third season at Princeton University in an equipment operations role with the women's ice hockey team. Prior to that, she worked at the University of Connecticut in equipment with their women's ice hockey team. She worked this past summer as a video coach and operations with USA hockey for the U16/17 camp and the equipment manager for the U18 Women's Fall Festival.

She has also worked with the Carolina Hurricanes "Canes Girls Hockey" program, assisting on and off the ice at clinics and summer camps.