Pacifica Stories

Alum Alex Knight played basketball, baseball, and volleyball while a student-athlete at Pacifica. He enjoyed the small class sizes, the relationships with his teachers, and the flexibility given to him by the school to travel both nationally and internationally while pursuing a quality education.

At 18 years old and a senior at Pacifica, Alex was selected as captain of the U-19 United States National Team that competed at the World Championships in Tunisia. At the championships he led the team in scoring and in kills. The previous year leading up to the competition in Tunisia, he competed with the U-19 team in the NORCECA Championships in Costa Rica, helping to earn the team a silver medal and a spot in the World Championships in North Africa.

During his high school volleyball career, Alex helped lead the Seawolves to the CIF finals in 2019 with teammates Timmy Ellis, Kenny Minchin, Stewart Cox, Eli Lingel, Scott Yontez, Davis Bland, Gabe Conway Burt, Dylan Swimmer, and Ben Reasner. In 2019 Alex was also Volleyball magazine’s National High School Player of the Year. While he was recruited by many colleges to compete with their volleyball teams, he narrowed down his final choices to UCLA and Pepperdine; the academic and athletic departments, as well as the abundant alumni in his own family, led him to ultimately choose UCLA.

For the past three years, Alex has been the starting outside hitter for the UCLA Bruins. This year the Bruins were ranked #1 for 12 weeks, with a record of 22-5. They had big wins over Penn State, Ohio State, USC, Pepperdine, Stanford, and Long Beach State. Alex and his teammates made it to the NCAA semi-finals. Representing Pacifica, UCLA, and Team USA has been a privilege for Alex.

In addition to indoor and beach volleyball, Alex worked as partnerships coordinator for Cloud9, an e-sports gaming company. Alex loves to work with kids. He has counseled middle school and high school students at Hume Lake in California, and for the past few years, Alex has come back to Pacifica to counsel Pacifica students at the all-school retreat in Arizona. Alex Knight is a Pacifica Seawolf through and through and continues to echo our school values in his own life today.