Thom Knab

Thom Knab has been a high school volleyball coach for 43 years and has served as varsity coach for the past 35 years at Williamsville South HS. This past season his team won the NYS Section VI Division 2B title. Thom was named Coach of the Year by the WNY Volleyball Coaches Association and selected Coach of the Year for NYVCA Section 6. The Amherst Bee Newspaper selected his team as the 2026 High School Team of the Year. His 2024 and 2025 teams have earned AVCA Team Academic Award honors. This past season, Coach Knab achieved his 400th career win. He is a 2013 Western New York Boys Volleyball Hall of Fame Inductee and a 2020 inductee into the National Teachers Hall of Fame.