Danianke Smith


Defensive Ends
2000 - Present

Coach Smith also known as Coach Knocc, played football from age 8, till he attended LB Poly h.s. thru the Long Beach Poly Pop Warner program. Graduated from Poly 1988. Coached by Don Norford in Pop Warner, and thru high school.

Coached the USC Trojan Football Camps, the DeBartolo Sports University High School Football Camps, and the Nike/Sparq Training Camps, multiple years. In 2005, he served as the Defensive Coordinator of Snoop Dogg’s Diamond Bar Raiders, a Junior Pee Wee team in Diamond Bar, California. Smith's coaching began 1997-2003, he coached a junior football team, the Bellevue Bears. Bellevue, Wa

  • Football Scholarship to UW Huskies in 1988.
  • Coach Knocc graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1993.
  • BA in American Ethnic Studies.
  • As a member of the Washington Huskies Football Team, he made three Rose Bowl appearances.
  • As a Junior the Huskies were undefeated & 1991 National Champions.
  • The 1991 team was inducted into the UW Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.


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