Knutson attended
Aquinas High School in
La Crosse, Wisconsin and played varsity ice hockey with the Onalaska Hilltoppers Co-Op based at
Onalaska High School in
Onalaska, Wisconsin. During her high school ice hockey career in
Wisconsin Prep Hockey (WiPH), she led the state in scoring for four consecutive seasons, was named Wisconsin High School Offensive Player of the Year three times, and won the Wisconsin Miss Hockey Award in 2014. From 2014 to 2018, she played college ice hockey with the
UConn Huskies women's ice hockey program, scoring 79 points in 135
NCAA games. She scored her first collegiate goal on 19 October 2014 against the
Syracuse Orange. After graduating, she moved to Germany to sign with
Mad Dogs Mannheim in the
Fraueneishockey-Bundesliga. In her rookie Bundesliga season, she ranked third in the league for scoring, with 66 points in 28 games, including 48 goals. She returned to North America for the
2020–21 season, signing with the
Metropolitan Riveters of the
National Women's Hockey League (NWHL; renamed PHF in 2021). Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, the number of games in the NWHL season was severely limited, prompting Knutson to return to Germany and play with the
Eisbären Juniors Berlin in the DFEL after the Riveters season had ended. She re-signed with the Riveters for the
2021–22 PHF season. Knutson signed with
ECDC Memmingen for the 2022–23 DFEL season, during which she led the league in regular season scoring, with 14 goals and 18 assists for 32 points in twenty games. Her elite production helped propel the team to a bronze medal finish in the 2023
EWHL Super Cup and her playoff-leading 14 points contributed to ECDC Memmingen’s consecutive semifinal and final
series sweeps, which ended in the 2023 German Championship victory. == Career statistics ==