Allison Keeley enters her fifth year as head coach of the East Stroudsburg University women's volleyball program during the 2016 season.
The Warriors have won 27 matches in Keeley's first four years, including a 7-20 record in her first season in 2012, a three-win improvement over the previous season.
Outside hitter Kaitlin Behrens flourished under Keeley as a senior in 2012, earning first team All-PSAC East honors. She was the first ESU athlete to gain first team recognition since 2006, ranking second in the PSAC and 24th in NCAA Division II with 3.91 kills per set.
Libero Maddie Hutchison (2012-15) finished her career ranked second in ESU history and ninth in PSAC history in career digs (2,105).
Keeley was previously the head coach at UNLV for seven years (2004-10), leading the Rebels to a record of 108-96, the Mountain West Conference (MWC) championship and the program’s first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2007. Her 108 wins are UNLV’s school record.
She was named the MWC and American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) West Region Coach of the Year, coached UNLV’s first All-American in Lauren Miramontes and recorded a school-record win total of 24-6. UNLV was ranked in the Top 25 for two weeks and finished with an RPI of #18 in Division I.
Keeley came to ESU with 15 years of head coaching experience, including 10 in Division I.
In her first season at UNLV, Keeley took a program that had four winning seasons in its previous 14 to a 15-12 record. The Rebels were 15-15 in 2005 before recording the third 20-win season in school history in 2006.
Her teams placed fourth in the Mountain West in her first three years, then broke through for a conference championship in 2007. UNLV won 15 or more matches in five of her seven seasons.
Before leaving for UNLV, Keeley was head coach at Villanova from 2001-03, leading the Wildcats from the bottom of the Big East to a conference semifinal appearance in her second season. Villanova was 18-16, an 11-win improvement from the previous year, and went 39-48 in her three seasons.
She was previously head coach at Southern Arkansas, in the Division II Gulf South Conference, from 1998-2000 and took the program to a third-place conference finish in her first season. She was head coach at Chaffey College (Calif.) in 1996 and 1997.
Keeley began her coaching career at Sparks High School in Sparks, Nevada in 1993 and 1994. Her first collegiate job was as an assistant at her alma mater, Carleton College (Minn.), in 1995.
She has a career record of 210-305 through 17 seasons, not including two years at non-NCAA member Chaffey College.
Keeley competed in volleyball and track and field at Carleton, graduating with a bachelor’s in Political Science and Education in 1990. She was an all-conference setter and went on to play Women’s Open Beach Volleyball and USA Volleyball Women’s Open Volleyball. She earned her Master’s in Education and Physical Education from Azusa Pacific (Calif.) in 1998.
