Bio

It was announced on September 24th, that Ed Knaggs would be taking the role of Head Coach for the 2025 season.

Knaggs spent 13 years as the Head Coach of the Wenatchee AppleSox from 2001 – 2014, and five seasons as the Associate Head Coach of the Corvallis Knights from 2018 – 2019 and 2022 – 2024.

With the AppleSox, Knaggs posted a winning record every season. He led Wenatchee to five WCL championships (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012) and two runner-up finishes (2008, 2013).

Knaggs also won five division championships and earned WCL Coach of the Year honors four times at Wenatchee before retiring after the 2014 season. He coached 771 total games and was 300-172 (.636) in WCL regular-season contests. Wenatchee also won the 2003 Pacific International League title; that circuit was the precursor to the current WCL, which was formed in 2005.

Knaggs played at College of the Canyons under former USC and UC Irvine coach Mike Gillespie, and at UC Irvine under Steve Hertz. He was an assistant coach at Gonzaga under Hertz for seven years before moving to Wenatchee to become the head coach at Wenatchee High School from 1991-2011. He also assisted with the Chatham A’s of the Cape Cod League for one season.