HONORS: Six tournament wins Finished in the top five 50 times Placed in the top three 32 times Qualified for the NCAA Regional Championships in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 34 Academic All-Big 12 Team selections Nine NGCA All-Scholar honor selections One Big 12 Player of the Year (Christine Boucher, 2003-2004) Ten individual championships from five different individuals: Carrie Chambers (1996), Elise Carpentier (2001), Christine Boucher (2001, 2002, 2003 three times, 2004), Helene Robert (2005), Michelle Regan (2007) CAREER WINS: Texas A&M Mo'Morial (3/1-2/04) Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational (10/13-14/03) Sunflower Invitational (10/14-15/02) Mountain View Collegiate (3/23-24/02) Sunflower Showdown (9/26/01) Northern Iowa Classic (9/22-23/96)
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Kristi Knight is in her 17th year as head women's golf coach at Kansas State. Knight came to K-State as the school's first full-time women's golf coach in the fall of 1995 after playing at the University of Oklahoma.

"I never saw myself as a coach," Knight said. "I loved college athletics and my goal was to be an athletic director. My coach at Oklahoma is the one who encouraged me to go into coaching. I am glad she did."

A native of Crockett, Texas, Knight graduated from Norman (Okla.) High School. Knight played collegiate golf at Oklahoma from 1985-88. Knight was a consistent player for the Sooners, lettering three years under head coach Carol Ludvigson. As a senior, Knight was named team co-captain and selected as a Scholastic All-American.

After earning her bachelor's degree, Knight began working at the prestigious Oak Tree Country Club in Edmond, Okla., and then went on to earn her master's degree in sports administration from Oklahoma in 1993.

"Coaching is always a challenge but at the same time very rewarding," Knight said. "It has taken me places I never would've gone. The relationships you build and the friendships you make with everyone are great."

Knight has guided the Wildcats to six collegiate wins and its highest-ever Big 12 finish in 2009 when they placed fourth. The first tournament victory was at the Northern Iowa Classic, Sept. 23, 1996. The Cats then waited five season to claim their next win at the Sunflower Showdown on September 26, 2001. The Wildcats also tallied a victory that spring at the Mountain View Collegiate, March 24, 2002, before tallying their second-consecutive Sunflower Invitational title in 2002. Kansas State was then victorious at the Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invitational on Oct. 13-14, 2003. K-State also took the trophy at the Texas A&M Mo'Morial March 1-2, 2004.

Since her arrival in 1995, the Wildcats have placed in the top five at 43 tournaments and in the top three 23 times. Under Knight, Trisha Hoover finished in a tie for eighth place at the 1996 Big Eight Championships, K-State’s first all-conference women’s golfer. Christine Boucher finished second in the Big 12 Conference Championship in 2002, the highest ever for a Wildcat in a conference championship and grabbed Second Team All-Big 12 honors. She was named to the first team in 2003, and in 2004 Boucher was named the Big 12 Conference Player of the Year.

"It is fun to watch these young ladies develop not only as players but people," Knight said. "This is an important time in their lives. When they arrive, many of them are unsure what they want to do or what they think they can do. I want to make sure they know they can accomplish anything they put their heart and mind to."

Under Knight, the Wildcats qualified for the NCAA Regional Championships four straight years, from 2001-04. Knight also guided Boucher to the NCAA Championships in 2003, the first Wildcat to qualify.

K-State's team and individual scoring records have come under the watch of Knight. The top 18-hole and 54-hole team scores were set by the 2002-2003 team in the Edwin Watts Intercollegiate at Oak Point G.C. in Kiawah, S.C. That team shot a 286 on day two to the set the 18-hole record and totaled three rounds of 874, the 54-hole record, for the two days.

At the same tournament, Boucher claimed the top individual scores for a Wildcat in school history. She posted a 64 on day two of the tournament for the best 18-hole score. She shot a three-round total of 204 to take home first-place honors and set the Wildcat individual 54-hole best.

Knight was asked to serve on the NCAA Central Regional Selection Committee from 2004-2006 and was selected by the NGCA to serve on the Awards Committee since 2006. Additionally, Knight was was elected in June 2011 to serve on the National Golf CoachesAssociation Board as a Division I representative.