Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Amateur golf in Western Pennsylvania is highly competitive, and the best among the elite in that circle for the past decade or more has been IUP's own Sean Knapp.
Selected by the WPGA/Western Pennsylvania Golf Association as its Player of the Nineties, Knapp has been voted Player of the Year seven straight times (1994 through 2000), and is considered a certainty to attain that honor again this season.
Qualifying for eight USGA/United States Golf Association amateur tournaments, he in 1997 became the first golfer to win both Pennsylvania Amateur and Mid-Amateur championships in the same year.
Winner of 25 West Penn Golf events, .the most in WPGA history, Knapp is currently ranked 14th among all amateur golfers in the United States.
Highlights through the years have included four consecutive West Penn Amateur tournament titles (1998-2001) after first winning in 1988, five West Penn Mid-Am trophies and three Pittsburgh Open titles (in 1995, '96 and 2000).  The latter is played each year by both pro and amateur golfers.
Among the top 16 golfers in the 1995 U. S. Amateur, where he reached the third round in an event won by Tiger Woods, Knapp reached the quarterfinals (top eight golfers) there in ‘98.
In the 1995 USGA tourney, Knapp made match play and went head-to-head with Woods. He won one of their three rounds and garnered ESPN coverage.
All this came well after Knapp's 1984 graduation from IUP, where his undergraduate athletic performances in all honesty did not predict Hall of Fame induction.
Although an all-state scholastic eager at Plum High School, he found himself playing reserve roles as a freshman and sophomore to highly talented Indian veterans.  Shifting to golf as a junior and senior, Knapp found himself trying to crash a lineup that included several of IUP's all-time best linksmen.
A finance major in the classroom then, he signed on with Fuhrer's, a major player in the Pittsburgh-area investment and development market.  Knapp is now the firm's vice president of financial sales.
His home golf course is Longue Vue, near Oakmont, where he resides with his bride of 16 years, the former Suzanne Stoner, and daughters Kensey, 8, and Taylor, 1.