![]() Everyone was just so tired and limping around with the season about to end, and then I see put the ball in the net, and I was going crazy.” “Just the feeling of seeing scoring in the last minute of the game - I will never forget that. “I think my best moment was winning the NJAC in my second year when we beat Rowan,” Knapp said. Knapp described his favorite moment from playing soccer for the Red Hawks. He won NJAC Rookie of the Year in his first season, then proceeded to win the Pat Baldiserra Midfielder of the Year Award in the conference the very next season. In just those two seasons, Knapp established himself as one of the top players at Montclair State and within the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) as a whole. He also notched seven assists, one of those being a game-winning pass to senior forward at the time, Nixon Soglo, to defeat the Profs of Rowan University early on in the 2018 season. Knapp played for the Red Hawks during the 20 seasons, totaling three goals, with one of them being a game-winning penalty kick against New York University (NYU) to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III Tournament. Knapp was drafted in the third round of the 2022 MLS SuperDraft. And what better place to begin culminating soccer stardom than at one of the more successful Division III soccer programs here at Montclair State? It was pretty shocking.”Īnd with one of the most out-of-the-ordinary ways to find out that a player has made it into the big leagues, Knapp was officially drafted with the 61st pick in the third round of the 2022 MLS SuperDraft to Austin FC. “Since I was technically already a pro, I was really confused, so I called my agent and asked him questions what the whole process was and how it was going to happen. “My agent texts me, ‘You have been drafted to Austin FC.’ I woke up in the morning to that text and I was like, ‘What is going on?'” Knapp said. And then, he got one of the biggest texts he would ever get from his agent confirming his suspicions. Confused, he blew it off and went back to sleep. This was presumably the announcement of Knapp being drafted to the MLS. A lot of people in Knapp’s circle kept reposting something on Instagram in the middle of the night, waking him up. I have a feeling I’m going to get drafted,’ but because of what my agent told me, I didn’t think much of it,” Knapp said.Īnd then, the strange feeling Knapp had became a reality. “The day of the draft I was just in the gym in the sauna thinking, ‘Man, I have a weird feeling. ![]() It was almost as if what his agent had told him was not going to come to fruition. ![]() Knapp’s head was kept up, but all of a sudden on the day of the 2022 Major League Soccer (MLS) SuperDraft, he started to feel different emotions than usual. Knapp takes a team picture with the New York Red Bulls II. ![]()
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