Allison Keeley finished her second season as the head women's volleyball coach at Kutztown University in 2023.
In two seasons thus far, Keeley has amassed a 23-29 (.442) overall record and 10-17 (.370) mark in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. She has coached three All-PSAC performers, including the 2022 PSAC Rookie of the Year in Adrianna Derstine. Under the tutelage of Keely, Sadie Doss earned two All-PSAC First Team honors and D2 CCA All-Atlantic Region recognition.
Keeley led the Golden Bears in 2022 to their first winning record since 2011, finishing 13-12 (7-7 PSAC), including two All-PSAC East First Team selections and the PSAC East Freshman of the Year.
Keeley brought more than 20 years of coaching experience at the NCAA Division I and II levels. She has compiled more than 250 career victories between stops at Southern Arkansas (1998-2000), Villanova (2001-03), UNLV (2004-10), East Stroudsburg (2012-16) and most recently Columbia (2018-21).
Keeley arrived at Columbia in 2018 after spending the previous season as an assistant and interim head coach at Boston College. In her first two seasons with the Lions, the program produced consecutive double-digit win campaigns. Keeley guided the team through the unprecedented challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, before Columbia returned to action in fall 2021.
In 2018, Keeley led the Lions to a 10-14 record, the most wins by a first-year head coach at Columbia since 2009. Chichi Ikwuazom became Columbia’s first AVCA All-American in 2019 following a single season program record 495 kills and Keeley’s team produced a 12-12 overall record for the program’s first .500 or better finish in seven years.
Keeley’s appointment at Kutztown marks her second stint in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). From 2012-16, she served as head coach at East Stroudsburg University, where the Warriors enjoyed a 10-win improvement from 2011 (4-23) through Keeney’s final season (14-18). Her recruiting helped lay the foundation for ESU’s 2019 conference title and qualification for the NCAA Championship tournament.
Keeley got her collegiate coaching start as an assistant at her alma mater Carleton College in 1995. A year later she was named the head coach at Chaffey College, a California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) institution based in Rancho Cucamonga. Keeley joined Southern Arkansas University in 1998, winning 36 matches over three seasons before being named the head coach at Villanova in 2001.
It didn’t take long for Keeley to make her mark with the Wildcats. She coached Villanova to its first winning season since 1997 with an 18-16 record in 2002, an 11-win improvement over the previous season.
Keeley had great success during seven seasons at UNLV, where she won 108 matches and coached the Rebels to their first Mountain West Conference championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2007. It would be a banner season for the program and Keeley, as the Rebels went 24-6 (12-4 Mountain West) and earned a spot in the AVCA Top 25 national poll. UNLV earned the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and defeated Utah in five sets to win the championship. They took Long Beach State to five sets in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Keeley was named Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year and AVCA West Region Coach of the Year in 2007. She produced two 20-win seasons with the Rebels (20-10 in 2006) along with five seasons of at least 15 wins. Keeley also coached one of the best players in UNLV history, Lauren Miramontes, to All-America honors. Keeley departed UNLV as the winningest coach in program history.
Keeley has coached a combined 17 all-conference selections, two All-Region selections and one All-American, along with three conference Freshman of the Year selections. Besides coaching success on the court, Keeley's players have also excelled in the classroom. She produced 45 Academic All-Mountain West Conference selections, which included tying the program record of 10 honorees in both 2005 and 2008. Two of her players at UNLV earned CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine All-District honors, including one on the All-District First Team. At Villanova, 33 of Keeley's student-athletes earned BIG EAST academic honors, including another that garnered CoSIDA All-District distinction.
Keeley was a member of the volleyball and track & field teams at Carleton, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science and education in 1990. She was an all-conference setter and went on to compete with USA Volleyball’s Women's Open Beach and Women's Open Indoor teams. She earned her master's degree in education and physical education from Azusa Pacific (Calif.) in 1998.
| ALLISON KEELEY YEAR-BY-YEAR COACHING RECORD |
|
Overall |
Conference |
|
| Year |
School |
Wins |
Losses |
Pct. |
Wins |
Losses |
Pct. |
Postseason & Honors |
| 1998 |
Southern Arkansas |
17 |
19 |
.472 |
5 |
5 |
.500 |
Gulf South Conference Tournament Qualifier |
| 1999 |
Southern Arkansas |
8 |
23 |
.258 |
2 |
8 |
.200 |
|
| 2000 |
Southern Arkansas |
11 |
24 |
.314 |
3 |
9 |
.250 |
|
| 3 Seasons |
Southern Arkansas |
36 |
66 |
.353 |
|
|
|
|
| 2001 |
Villanova |
7 |
17 |
.292 |
2 |
10 |
.167 |
|
| 2002 |
Villanova |
18 |
16 |
.529 |
7 |
6 |
.538 |
|
| 2003 |
Villanova |
14 |
15 |
.483 |
7 |
5 |
.583 |
BIG EAST Semifinals |
| 3 Seasons |
Villanova |
39 |
48 |
.448 |
16 |
21 |
.432 |
|
| 2004 |
UNLV |
15 |
12 |
.556 |
8 |
6 |
.571 |
Mountain West Conference Semifinals |
| 2005 |
UNLV |
15 |
15 |
.500 |
10 |
6 |
.625 |
Mountain West Conference Semifinals |
| 2006 |
UNLV |
20 |
10 |
.667 |
10 |
6 |
.625 |
Mountain West Conference Semifinals |
| 2007 |
UNLV |
24 |
6 |
.800 |
12 |
4 |
.750 |
Mountain West Conference Champions
NCAA Championship First Round
Mountain West Conference Co-Coach of the Year
AVCA West Region Coach of the Year |
| 2008 |
UNLV |
16 |
14 |
.533 |
9 |
7 |
.563 |
|
| 2009 |
UNLV |
8 |
19 |
.296 |
5 |
11 |
.313 |
|
| 2010 |
UNLV |
10 |
20 |
.333 |
5 |
11 |
.313 |
|
| 7 Seasons |
UNLV |
108 |
96 |
.529 |
59 |
51 |
.536 |
|
| 2012 |
East Stroudsburg |
7 |
20 |
.259 |
4 |
15 |
.211 |
|
| 2013 |
East Stroudsburg |
6 |
26 |
.188 |
2 |
20 |
.091 |
|
| 2014 |
East Stroudsburg |
7 |
24 |
.226 |
3 |
19 |
.136 |
|
| 2015 |
East Stroudsburg |
7 |
25 |
.219 |
2 |
20 |
.091 |
|
| 2016 |
East Stroudsburg |
14 |
18 |
.438 |
6 |
12 |
.333 |
|
| 5 Seasons |
East Stroudsburg |
41 |
113 |
.266 |
17 |
86 |
.165 |
|
| 2018 |
Columbia |
10 |
14 |
.417 |
4 |
10 |
.286 |
|
| 2019 |
Columbia |
12 |
12 |
.500 |
5 |
9 |
.357 |
|
| 2020 |
Columbia |
NO SEASON (COVID-19 PANDEMIC) |
| 2021 |
Columbia |
5 |
19 |
.208 |
2 |
12 |
.143 |
|
| 3 Seasons |
Columbia |
27 |
45 |
.375 |
11 |
31 |
.262 |
|
| 2022 |
Kutztown |
13 |
12 |
.520 |
7 |
7 |
.500 |
|
| 2023 |
Kutztown |
10 |
17 |
.370 |
3 |
11 |
.214 |
|
| 2 Seasons |
Kutztown |
23 |
29 |
.442 |
10 |
17 |
.370 |
|
| 22 Seasons |
Overall |
274 |
397 |
.408 |
113 |
207 |
.353 |
|
Updated 12/4/2023
