Kendall Knaps
Kendall Knaps
Height: 5-5
Year: So.
Hometown: Prairieville, La.
Previous School: Dutchtown HS
Gym Club/Center: Athletes in Motion
Event: AA

2020 Sophomore Season: Competed in all 10 of the Ladies’ meets during the season in the bars, beam, and floor … Earned high scores of 9.625 on bars, 9.7 on beam, 9.7 on floor...Named a USA Gymnastics Scholar Athlete … Named a Midwest Independent Conference scholar-athlete...named a WCGA Academic All-American for 2019-2020

2019 Freshman Season: Placed fifth on bars (9.350) versus Eau Claire on Jan. 19.

Prior to Centenary: Competed for the Athletes in Motion gym club and head coaches Shelley Swanson and Michelle Wag in Prairieville, Louisiana... Qualified for Regionals every year between 2015-2018, competing at Eastern Nationals in level 9 in 2016... Qualified for Regionals on floor from 2009-2011 and for the 2010 Western Nationals and the 2011 Junior Olympic Nationals on the apparatus... In 2016, won on beam at the Regionals and Eastern Nationals... Also at Nationals that year, finished as a silver medalist on floor...Athlete of the Year for LSHAA High School Gymnastics...Academically, was on the Honor Roll, an Academic Letterman, and in Honors and dual-enrollment classes while at Dutchtown High School.

Personal: Birthday is May 15... Daughter of Caroline and Randy Knaps and has two siblings, Russell and Mitchell... also has a dog named Sadie. At Centenary, majoring in communication with a concentration in New Media Design.

Favorite Movies: Forever My Girl and Spiderman: Far From Home

Hobby: Anything artsy (loves to draw)

Favorite Athlete: Drew Brees