Career Highlights

  • Pac-12 Champions- Team (2023)
  • NCAA Champion- Team (2023)

As a Freshman (2022-23) • NCAA Champion (Team) • Pac-12 Champion (Team) 

  • Helped the third varsity eight in the 3 seat to a top finish at the Big-10 Invite (Fri PM)
  • Rowed in the 3 seat of the fourth varsity eight boat at the Big Row
  • Rowed in the 2 seat of the second varsity four boat that topped SMU at the Pac-12 Challenge
  • Led the novice eight boat to a first-place effort at the 2023 Pac-12 Championships in the 6 seat

International Competiton

  • Competed for Great Britain’s U19 Squad
    • 2022 Munich Regatta
      • Third place, Double Sculls
      • Second place, Single Scull
    • 2022 European Championships
      • Seventh place, Double Sculls (won B Final)
    • 2022 World Championships
      • Third place, Quadruple Sculls

Prior to Stanford

  • Graduate of The City of Stoke on Trent Sixth Form College
  • Competed for Trentham Boat Club
    • Part of Trentham’s J15 Coxed Quadruple Sculls boats that won the 2019 National Schools Regatta and 2019 British Rowing Junior Championships
    • Won the 2021 U19 British Rowing Virtual Indoor Championships in 500m and 2000m, qualifying for 2020 World Rowing Virtual Indoor Championships
    • Won the 2021 U19 World Rowing Virtual Indoor Championships in the 2000m while placing second in the 500m (where she set a new world record for 15-16 year olds)
    • Part of Trentham’s Double Sculls boat that made the semifinals of the 2021 Henley Women’s Regatta 
    • Part of Trentham’s Quadruple Scullsl boat that qualified for the Diamond Jubilee Challenge Cup at the 2021 Henley Royal Regatta
    • Placed second in the Championship Single Scull at the 2022 National Schools Regatta
    • Won the 2022 Junior Single Scull Event with a course-record time at the 2022 Henley Women’s Regatta
    • Stroked Trentham’s quad in the Diamond Jubliee Challenge Cup at the 2022 Henley Royal Regatta 

Personal

  • Parents are Eleanor and Jason Knight

Why Megan Knight Chose Stanford 

  • “I chose Stanford because I wanted to go to a university where I could be both athletically and academically challenged, and this is something I struggled to find a good balance of when looking at UK universities. Women’s college rowing in the States is so much more competitive than any women’s rowing I have ever seen and Stanford also offers amazing opportunities to study STEM. With this combination, as well as a strong, supportive and determined team, Stanford was an easy choice to make.”