Paul Knight will be entering his first year as Lenoir-Rhyne Head Baseball Coach in 2008.

Knight comes to Lenoir-Rhyne after spending the past five years (2003-07) as the Head Baseball Coach at Florida Tech in Melbourne, Fla. As Panthers mentor, Knight fashioned a 139-128 record (.521) and led the squad to 36 team records. Knight, with the team in a rebuilding stage, accomplished this while competing in what is arguably the nation’s strongest NCAA Division II Baseball Conference, The Sunshine State.

Knight’s 2007 team was his best at Florida Tech as the Panthers finished with a 30-21 mark and was ranked as high as No. 20 in NCAA Division II. Under Knight’s helm, Florida Tech has produced nine all-conference players, four all-region players and an All-American in Jon Baksh.

Prior to Florida Tech, Knight was an assistant coach for Wingate University from 1996 to 2002. With the Bulldogs, Knight put together a highly-successful pitching staff that helped Wingate win the 1998 Food Lion SAC Tournament Title and 2000 South Atlantic Conference Regular Season Championship and land a berth in the 2001 NCAA Division II Playoffs.

Knight started his coaching career as a Graduate Assistant Coach for the University of Richmond in 1994 where the helped the team to a 43-17 mark and berth in the NCAA Division I Playoffs in 1995.

Knight graduated from Methodist College in 1994 with a bachelor of science degree in computer science before earning his masters in sports management from Richmond in 1996.

As a player for Methodist, Knight was part of two NCAA Division III World Series Teams.

Knight was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York, and raised in Montvale, New Jersey, and his family includes his wife, Kirsten, his son, Tyler (who was born in August of 2007) and dog, Skyler.