Women's Basketball
Keanna Keys
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- klk26a@acu.edu
Keanna Keys joined the ACU women's basketball staff in June 2026 as an assistant coach. She made her way to the Big Country after spending the 2025-26 season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Southeastern in the Southland Conference.
The Lions ranked fifth in the SLC in made three-pointers per game (6.1) and turnover margin. Five student-athletes landed on the conference's All-Academic Team.
From 2020-25. Keys served as an assistant coach at UT Rio Grande Valley, where she specialized in post player development. In her final year in Edinburg, Texas, the Vaqueros had their winningest season since 2018-19. Keys mentored six All-Conference honorees at UTRGV. In 2024-25, UTRGV led the SLC in opposing three-point percentage (.274) and ranked third in made threes per game (7.1). It was third in the WAC in offensive rebounds (14.0) in 2022-23.
Keys got her career started as the athletic director at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Towson, Md. from 2018-20. She played basketball at Little Rock from 2013-18, powering the Trojans to three Sun Belt Conference titles. In Keys' final season, she landed on the All-Sun Belt Third Team. She graduated with her Bachelor's degree in health and exercise science education in 2017 before earning her Bachelor's in criminal justice in 2018. While in school, Keys cut her teeth in coaching at the AAU level.
What head coach Julie Goodenough is saying:
"I have observed Coach Keys' professionalism and positive attitude for years while she was at UTRGV. She has coached under two head coaches that I have the utmost respect for, Lane Lord and Jeff Dow, and know that she has been trained and mentored very well. Coach Keys will be working with our post position group and will serve as our academic coordinator as well as our director of analytics. She has seamlessly joined our tight-knit Wildcat family."
The Lions ranked fifth in the SLC in made three-pointers per game (6.1) and turnover margin. Five student-athletes landed on the conference's All-Academic Team.
From 2020-25. Keys served as an assistant coach at UT Rio Grande Valley, where she specialized in post player development. In her final year in Edinburg, Texas, the Vaqueros had their winningest season since 2018-19. Keys mentored six All-Conference honorees at UTRGV. In 2024-25, UTRGV led the SLC in opposing three-point percentage (.274) and ranked third in made threes per game (7.1). It was third in the WAC in offensive rebounds (14.0) in 2022-23.
Keys got her career started as the athletic director at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Towson, Md. from 2018-20. She played basketball at Little Rock from 2013-18, powering the Trojans to three Sun Belt Conference titles. In Keys' final season, she landed on the All-Sun Belt Third Team. She graduated with her Bachelor's degree in health and exercise science education in 2017 before earning her Bachelor's in criminal justice in 2018. While in school, Keys cut her teeth in coaching at the AAU level.
What head coach Julie Goodenough is saying:
"I have observed Coach Keys' professionalism and positive attitude for years while she was at UTRGV. She has coached under two head coaches that I have the utmost respect for, Lane Lord and Jeff Dow, and know that she has been trained and mentored very well. Coach Keys will be working with our post position group and will serve as our academic coordinator as well as our director of analytics. She has seamlessly joined our tight-knit Wildcat family."
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