Keanna Keys joined the Southeastern women’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach in April 2025.
Keys’ most recent coaching stop was as an assistant coach at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley (2020-2025). Keys spent five seasons with the Vaqueros, helping to maintain the team’s excellence in the classroom while also primarily working on post player development. In her first season with UTRGV, the team finished with a GPA of 3.38 along with 13 AD Honor Roll Recipients.
Prior to that, she spent two years as the athletic director at Immaculate Heart of Mary School from 2018-2020.
Keys was a member of the Little Rock women’s basketball team from 2013-18, where she helped her team to Sun Belt Conference Championships in 2015, 2017 and 2018. She was named to the All-Sun Belt Conference Third Team during her final year by averaging 8.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game.
Keys finished her career with the sixth most offensive rebounds in program history while graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Health and Exercise Science Education in 2017 and a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice in 2018.
She had the opportunity to coach at the Little Rock Basketball Camps, working with young basketball players in skill development. Keys also instructed young athletes in practicing and developing leadership skills.
During the summers of 2014 and 2015, Keys served as an AAU basketball assistant coach, providing skill instruction and mentoring young athletes.
