Hall of Fame
Doug Knol will enter his 29th season as an assistant coach with the Shippensburg University track & field teams in 2021-22. Knol, who began coaching the Raiders in 1993, is the most decorated and successful assistant coach in the history of PSAC Track & Field.
From a team perspective, Knol has contributed to 51 PSAC Championships with the Raiders (13 PSAC men’s indoor titles, 18 PSAC men’s outdoor titles, eight PSAC women’s indoor titles, 12 PSAC women’s outdoor titles).
Over the last 16 years, the Raiders have won 43 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships (22 outdoors, 20 indoors). The rest of the PSAC has combined to win just 17 league titles in the same span.
A five-time USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Assistant Coach of the Year, Knol has mentored 29 NCAA Division II All-Americans in sprints, hurdles or relays. The Raiders have had more than 54 national championships qualifiers in Knol’s specialized coaching events.
Knol’s instruction has been especially evident at the PSAC Championships. He has instructed 226 All-PSAC (Top 3) finishers in just the sprints, hurdles and relays. That total includes 100 conference champions in these events – achievements that are integral to Shippensburg’s run as the conference’s premier program.
Twenty-four school records have been broken thanks to Knol’s direction – five women’s indoor records, seven women’s outdoor records, five men’s indoor records, and seven men’s outdoor records. In fact, every single sprints/hurdles/relay record holder in SU history has been coached by Knol, and several have been “re-broken” by his successive athletes.
Six all-time conference records are held by Shippensburg University student-athletes who have worked under Knol’s direction: Dru Adighibe (men’s outdoor 200), Charles Bowman Jr. (men’s indoor 60 hurdles), Danielle Sciremammano (women’s indoor 60 hurdles), the women’s indoor 4x400-meter relay, and the men’s indoor and outdoor 4x400-meter relays.
A 1991 graduate of Shippensburg, Knol was a four-time PSAC qualifier in his specialty event, the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. During his junior and senior seasons, Shippensburg won conference titles beginning a string of four consecutive championships. After earning his undergraduate degree, he earned his graduate degree in applied mathematics from the University of Delaware
Through the entirety of his tenure at Shippensburg, Knol has worked full time as a mathematics and advanced mathematics teacher in the Big Spring School District. Knol has also worked at Bashore Scout Reservation for the Boy Scouts of America for more than 30 years.
