Finished the 2011 campaign with 60 tackles and a team best 4.5 sacks…named Most Improved Defensive Player…multiple letter winner and team captain on the football, hockey, and baseball teams while at La Crosse Aquinas High School…three-time first-team all-Mississippi Valley Conference honoree in football…also earned first-team all-area and honorable mention all-state honors…in hockey was an honorable mention all-conference selection three times…academic all-conference honoree…son of Ted and Denise Knutson.