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Marcos Kniska '26 Recruiting Profile

University High SchoolMorgantown, WVFootball
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Height6'1"
Weight205lbs
Age17
Primary PositionMiddle Linebacker
Secondary PositionOutside Linebacker
Dominant HandRight

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Personal Statement

  • Collegiate goal: play middle linebacker for winning D1 University and achieve a degree in Physiology/Sports Psychology to apply what I’ve learned in sports to care for rehabilitating patients
  • 2024 AAAAA OVAC Conference First Team All Conference Football Linebacker
  • 2024 AAAA West Virginia All State Honorable Mention Football Linebacker
  • 2024 Led team in tackles
  • 2024 AAAA WV State Playoff game captain
  • 2023 Lead team in sacks and tackles for loss at defensive end
  • 2022 A OVAC Honorable Mention All Conference Football Linebacker
  • 2022 Led team in tackles
  • 30 game consecutive starter freshman through junior year
  • Calls defensive plays and player alignment on the field
  • Played in national 2024 Next Level Junior Classic, FBU Top Gun invite
  • Some things that people don’t know about me: I had a cousin who played for the Steelers back in the old days and I can do a backflip on skis. 
  • High School Sports lettered in:  Football, Soccer, Basketball (state regional champs), Baseball
  • Positions played in high school: Middle linebacker, outside linebacker, defensive end, running back, slot receiver, special teams
  • My team won a national NASA competition and I presented to NASA Senior leadership at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
  • I have a brother at Columbia and a brother going to Stanford.  I grew up in a family environment where being well rounded in both sports and academics was emphasized.
  • If you do the work, God will steer.

Athletics

High School Information

  • Years w/ Varsity
  • 1 year
  • Varsity Starter
  • 1 year
  • 2022 Varsity Team
  •  
    Starter
     - Jersey: #42
  • Individual Awards
  • Honorable Mention All-Conference

Coach References

  • High School Head Coach
  • Eric Snyder

Events

  • Camp/Event
  • Next-Level, Junior Class invite
  • 12/20/24 to 12/23/24
  • Camp/Event
  • FBU - Top Gun Football invite. Naples, Florida.
  • 6/27/24 to 6/30/24
  • Camp/Event
  • PA Elite Invite
  • Camp/Event
  • Harvard Football Camp
  • Camp/Event
  • West Virginia University

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Academics

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High School Information

StateWest Virginia
Phone(304) 291-9270

Academic Accomplishments

Are you in honor classes?
Yes. Chemistry - Honors
Are you in AP/IB classes?
Yes. AP Seminar AP Pre-Calculus AP Psychology AP Microeconomics AP Macroeconomics AP English Language & Composition
Registered with the NCAA Eligibility Center?
No

Awards and Activities

  • AwardsNASA, National Champion, App Development Challenge. Outreach officer. Huston, TX (April 2024), NASA, West Virginia BEAR, Launched high altitude balloons during Solar Eclipse. Operations and Recovery Officer. Erie, PA (April, 2024), Regional Champion, Social Studies Fair, Behavior Sciences category. Fairmont, WV (2022), State Runner Up, Social Studies Fair, Behavior Sciences category. Charleston, WV (2022), Honor Roll each semester, above 4.0 GPA.
  • ActivitiesMember of West Virginia BEAR Balloon Engineering and Atmospheric Research sub team for NASA NEBP nationwide eclipse ballooning project, Green Blades, lawn & garden business.

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