Kevin Keathley

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Name = Kevin Keathley
Sport = Basketball
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College = East Kentucky Miners (CBA)
Title = Head Coach
Awards = ABA Coach of the Year (2005)
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CoachYears = 1998-2000
20001-2002
2003-2004
2004-2006
2006-2007
2007–present
CoachTeams = Lees College (asst.)
St. Catherine College (asst.)
Louisville Eagles (asst.)
Kentucky Colonels
Rio-Grande Valley Silverados
East Kentucky Miners
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Kevin Keathley is a basketball coach and author who has spent eight years coaching on both the college and professional levels of basketball. He currently coaches the East Kentucky Miners of the Continental Basketball Association.

Coaching Career

Lees College

Keathley began his career as an assistant coach at Lees College in his home state of Kentucky. He served as the Lees College top assistant and later interim head coach.

aint Catherine College

Following his stint at Lees, Keathley joined the coaching staff at Saint Catharine College, where the Patriots averaged 95.6 points per game in 2002.

Louisville Eagles (UPBL)

After two years at Saint Catharine, Keathley was named Associate Coach and Director of Basketball Operations for the Louisville Eagles of the UPBL. Keathley helped to guide Louisville to the 2003 UPBL championship.

Kentucky Colonels (ABA)

In 2004, Keathley was named Head Coach of the ABA's Kentucky Colonels. The Keathley-coached Colonels finished the 2005 season 21-12, falling to eventual champion Arkansas in the second round of the playoffs. In 2005 Keathley was named ABA (American Basketball Association) Coach of the Year as the coach of the Kentucky Colonels. At the time he was the youngest coach in all of pro basketball. The following year he was named one of the top ten young coaches in America by [http://www.Probasketballnews.com Probasketballnews.com] .

Rio-Grande Valley Silverados

Upon leaving the Kentucky Colonels in 2006, Keathley spent one season as the head assistant coach for the Rio-Grande Valley Silverados, also in the ABA.

East Kentucky Miners (CBA)

Since leaving the Silverados in 2007, Keathley has served as the head coach of the East Kentucky Miners, a professional team in the CBA.

Non-Coaching Career

Author

Keathley has written a book on the game of basketball entitled "Hardwood Constitution: A Blueprint to Coaching Success", ISBN 1-59330-221-5.

External links

[http://www.ekminers.com/miners/coaches.html Official East Kentucky Miners Bio]