2018: ACWPC ALL-ACADEMIC (SUPERIOR) TEAM… WWPA ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM… Appeared in all 26 matches for the Aggies… Scored 17 goals and assisted on six others for 23 points… Attempted 46 shots on the year, averaging 1.8 shots per game… Added 16 steals and drew 20 exclusions — including a team-high eight 5-meter penalties… Scored a goal in 14 of the team’s 26 matches, including a season-high two goals three times against Santa Clara (Sept. 29), Loyola Marymount (Oct. 13), and Concordia (Nov. 16)… Posted a pair of steals against MIT (Sept. 1), Concordia (Oct. 5), and at Fresno Pacific (Oct. 25)… Finished with a season-high two assists against the Sunbirds.
2017: Played in all 29 games, scoring 18 goals with 13 steals and 9 assists... Also drew 22 exclusions plus a five-meter... Shot 10-for-16 (.625) in WWPA play... Performed first collegiate hat trick in conference road win at Air Force (9/30)... Had a goal and 2 steals at UC San Diego (11/4)... Earned ACWPC All-Academic (Superior category) and WWPA All-Academic.
2016: Logged 144.5 minutes in 16 games... Totaled 4 goals, an assist, 13 steals and 4 drawn exclusions... Scored first collegiate goal in Bruno Classic finale vs. St. Francis (9/4)... Also had goals against Wagner and George Washington during Rodeo (10/22-23)... Twice stung GW for two steals (9/4, 10/23)... WWPA and ACWPC All-Academic.
2015: Saw action in seven games for 26 minutes as a reserve... Finished year with an assist, 3 shots (no goals), a steal, and a drawn exclusion... Longest stint was 6 minutes vs. Bucknell in Rodeo tourney (10/24)... Earned ACWPC All-Academic (Excellent) honors.
2014: Redshirted.
RIGHETTI HS ’14: All-Pac 7 League honoree in both swimming and water polo... Added Cal-Hi All-America, first-team All-Southern Section and Pac-7 MVP accolades as a senior attacker... Scored 73 goals with 68 assists and 80 steals that year... USAWP All-Academic selection... Played club ball for Orcutt Polo Association and One Way WPC.
PERSONAL: Born in Santa Maria, Calif.... Majoring in viticulture & enology, which first drew him to the university... Parents are Robert & Julie Knight... Part of a collegiate water polo tradition in his family: Robert played at Chico State while two different uncles competed for UC Irvine and Redlands.
