Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
Left to right: Tye Griffin, assistant executive director; Coach Scott Knight; wife Julie, and Tim Saunders, executive director.
Back row standing from left to right: Jason Reed, Mike Buergel, Dave Baird, Brian Staebell, Marvin Moon, Ron Moon, Jason Bowman, Coach Scott Knight, Coach Phil Hinrichs. Front row from left to right: Deanna Crutcher, Terry St. Marie, Jim Featherstone, Pat MacQuarrie, Mike Kernkamp, Rusty Widman- Manager, Kevin Cardwell, Joe Featherstone, Jason Widman, Lonna Newel.
Coach Scott Knight, former Stanwood High School baseball coach who also made career stops at Rosalia and Pullman, was recently inducted into the National High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame at the National Clinic in Columbus, Ohio. He is the first Washington state coach to be honored.
Knight was inducted along with two coaches from Arizona and one from Pennsylvania.
Knight has logged 49 years of coaching baseball in Washington state. He also coached at West Valley in Spokane, Stanwood and Sedro-Woolley. Coach Knight's 1986 Rosalia team won the State Championship, the 1985 third place state and 1980 placed fifth place state.
Knight is a lifetime member of the Washington State Coaches Association where he has chaired the state hall of fame committee since 1994. He is an executive board member.
Coach Knight is a charter member of the National Coaches Association and 30-year member of the American Baseball Coaches Association.
Knight was inducted into the Washington state hall of fame in 1993.
In 2003, he was awarded the Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award by the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association.
Coach Knight has coached at numerous camps and has presented at numerous clinics throughout the Northwest.
As part of USA Baseball, he was selected as a 2002 and 2003 USA Baseball Youth National Team Trials Coach and Task Force member with the 2003 team winning the 16-under world championship.
Knight also was the head coach of the Washington Wranglers international traveling team which included 11 trips to Australia, two trips to the Netherlands, two trips to Cuba, two trips to China and one trip to Tennessee for the Southeastern Wood Bat Championships.
Coach Knight continues to volunteer with several area high school programs and is the associate head coach of a select team in the Seattle area.
A retired teacher, he is the traffic safety coordinator for the Stanwood-Camano School District.
He and wife Julie, reading specialist at Utsalady Elementary School for 29 years, have two children, a daughter, Kate, and a son, Doug.
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