University of Illinois Graduate

Career Highs 

Career Highlights 

• Three-time Academic All-Big Ten (2022, 2023, 2024)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2023)

Fifth Year - 2025

• Competed in 14 meets, primarily on uneven bars and beam
• Earned an event title on balance beam at the Ball State Quad on Jan. 12
• Earned a share of the beam title on Feb. 9 vs. No. 9 Missouri
• Earned the balance beam event title at Iowa on Feb. 16
• Earned a new season high on uneven bars (9.900) vs. Washington and Illinois State on Feb. 22, winning the event title
• Academic All-Big Ten
• CSC Academic All-District
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar

Senior - 2024

• Academic All-Big Ten
• Competed in all 16 meets, primarily on bars and beam 
• Earned the shared beam title (9.900) in the first home of the season against WVU, WMU, UW-Oshkosh on Jan. 13
• Won the bars title (9.925) at Nebraska on Jan. 20

Junior - 2023

• Academic All-Big Ten
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
• Competed in all 13 meets, primarily on beam
• Set a career-high on beam of 9.925 against Michigan State on Feb. 27, the same meet Illinois broke the beam record
• Made 2023 bars debut on March 11 against Kentucky and Illinois State

Sophomore - 2022

• Academic All-Big Ten
• Competed in all 13 meets on the bars, beam and floor
• Scored a career-high 9.900 on the balance beam at the NCAA Regionals on April 2
• Recorded a career-high score of 9.925 against Bowling Green on March 20

Freshman - 2021

• Made her Illini debut versus Nebraska on Jan. 15 on the bars
• Scored her career high on the balance beam in an exhibition run against Minnesota, scoring a 9.825 on March 13
• Recorded her career high on the floor in a tri-meet with Rutgers and Maryland with a score of 9.850 on Jan. 23
• Scored a career-high 9.900 in the uneven bars at Minnesota on March 13

High School/Club

• Senior English International gymnast
• First on floor and third in all-around at the 2019 British Team Championships Senior
• Sixth on floor and ninth in all-around at the 2019 English Championships
• Seventh on bars at the 2018 Leverkusen Cup
• Eighth in all-around at the 2018 British Championships

Personal

• Born Feb. 6, 2002
• Parents are Kenneth Knight and Susan Hawkes
• One brother, Harrison, and two sisters, Marissa and Jemima Hawkes
• Earned her bachelor's in interdisciplinary health sciences with a business minor in 2024, and is pursing a master's in management
• Her father, Kenneth is on the cycling team for Great Britain
• Chose Illinois because “I love the campus and the culture, I wanted to continue gymnastics whilst also going into further education and Illinois seemed like the perfect fit.”