Hall of Fame

Ben

Ben Knepper

  • Class
  • Induction
    2025
  • Sport(s)
    UW-Stout
Induction Video

(Written: July 2025)

Ben Knepper was a member of UW-Stout’s football team from 2000-03, and received numerous All-America awards. In 2002, he collected All-America Second Team honors from D3football.com and All-America Third Team recognition from Don Hansen Weekly Football Gazette.

In 2003, Knepper was selected All-America First Team by five publications – AP Little All-America, American Football Coaches Association, D3football.com, College Sports Information Directors and Don Hansen Weekly Football Gazette.

Knepper was an all-conference first team selection in 2002 and 2003, and participated in the 2003 Aztec Bowl. Approximately 65 percent of the plays were run to Knepper’s side during the 2003 campaign. He allowed only one sack during his last two years, that coming in the first game of his junior season, going more than 700 consecutive plays without allowing a sack. The Blue Devils won the 2000 conference championship – their first since 1965 – and compiled a 29-11 record during his four seasons for the best four-year stretch in program history.

In 2012, Knepper was selected to the WIAC Football All-Time Team in conjunction with the conference’s Centennial Celebration. He was inducted into the UW-Stout Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014, and the Rice Lake Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.

Knepper earned a bachelor’s degree in general business administration with an emphasis in industrial sales & marketing from UW-Stout. He resides in Chetek, Wis., with his wife Sarah. They have two sons Eddie and Asher.