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<\/p>\nGreen\u2019s Abbie Knapp commits to Lady Herd<\/p>\n
Published 11:12 pm Saturday, July 26, 2025<\/p>\n
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Abbie Knapp college commitment graphic courtesy of Anna Knapp, older sister of Jon and Abbie.<\/p>\n
By Jim Walker<\/p>\n
jim.walker@irontontribune.com<\/p>\n
FRANKLIN FURNACE \u2014 The only number that mattered to Abbie Knapp was the right one.<\/p>\n
There has been a long list of suitors that includes Wright State and Georgetown (Ky.), who have been seeking the services of the Green Lady Bobcats\u2019 6-foot-1 junior-to-be basketball standout. But there was only one offer that she was waiting to receive and that offer came on June 17.<\/p>\n
And last Friday, Knapp made it official by giving her commitment to the Marshall Lady Thundering Herd basketball program.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t about how many offers I got, it was about the one I wanted,\u201d said Knapp. \u201cSo, I guess I just got the one that I wanted and that\u2019s alright for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople wait to see all the offers they get. I didn\u2019t really care how many offers I ended up with or would have ended up with. That\u2019s not what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n
This past season Knapp was a first team All-Ohio selection in Division 7 by the Ohio Prep Sports Writers Association.<\/p>\n
Knapp averaged 27 points, 11.5 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game as she led Green to the Southern Ohio Conference-1 championship and a berth in the regional tournament for the first time since 1993.<\/p>\n
She was the SOC and Southeast Ohio District Co-Player of the Year.<\/p>\n
Knapp knows a lot of people will be skeptical because she plays in a small school conference and in the smallest of Ohio\u2019s seven divisions for tournament competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019ll be good. Being from a small conference, everybody thinks the kids aren\u2019t good because the competition isn\u2019t great. But then we go to these schools and everyone is shocked,\u201d said Knapp. \u201cI\u2019m excited to stay close to home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knapp\u2019s head coach at Green is her mother, Melissa Knapp, who also played college basketball at Eastern Kentucky and Shawnee State. She knows what it will take for her daughter to play at the next level.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s going to play the wing,\u201d said Melissa Knapp. \u201cI think she definitely has a chance to play at that level. Her size, for one, is the main thing. You have to be able to get the ball where it should go and be able to shoot from the outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cEver since she was little, we not only would post up, we focused on ball handling and being able to shoot from the outside. She\u2019s working a lot on her outside shooting. That\u2019s one thing she wants to get better at and guarding on the perimeter. She\u2019s working a lot on her defense. That was our goal from day one to get better defensively. You have to be able to defend to play at that level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abbie Knapp said she began playing when she was in pre-school and basketball has always been the sport for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started when I was 4-years-old. I kind of always handled the ball. It just kind of worked out that way,\u201d said Knapp. \u201cIt works most of the time in the SOC because I\u2019m one of the tallest people in (the conference). It\u2019s good not to just post up all the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always wanted to play college ball because of my mom. I wanted to be like my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knapp plays in the post due to her size, but she does come outside and shoot 3-pointers and handles the ball. Marshall hasn\u2019t been totally committed to any position.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like both. Post and out on the floor. We\u2019ll just have to see I guess,\u201d said Knapp. \u201cI really haven\u2019t talked to them much about that. I went on a visit and they offered me in June. I just loved what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
With her college future decided, Knapp said she can focus all her attention to helping her team reach lost heights.<\/p>\n
\u201cMainly, I want to win a state title. There\u2019s a chance now that Waterford and Berlin Heiland are in D6,\u201d said Knapp.<\/p>\n
Other than playing basketball at Marshall, napp is looking to become a physical therapist.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just works out. They have a physical therapy program. Once I\u2019m done with basketball, then I\u2019ll work in physical therapy,\u201d said Knapp.<\/p>\n
Since she wants to be like her mother, would Abbie also take up a career in coaching?<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if I could do that,\u201d said the younger Knapp. \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll be like her in some parts, but not all parts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green\u2019s Abbie Knapp commits to Lady Herd Published 11:12 pm Saturday, July 26, 2025 Abbie Knapp college commitment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-40324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}