UNLV Volleyball
Head Coach Allison Keeley

Allison Keeley enters her sixth season as the head coach of the Rebels and owns a record of 100-57 while at the helm of the UNLV program.

After five years on the job, Keeley has the UNLV volleyball program on the right track following five consecutive seasons of 15 or more victories, including back-to-back tallies of 20+ wins.   In 2007, she achieved a first ever MWC Championship, earning an automatic berth into the NCAA tournament. 

With major success comes recognition and the awards flowed UNLV's way.  Coach Keeley was named the 2007 MWC Co-Head Coach of the Year for her team's efforts and was later recognized as the AVCA's West Region Coach of the Year. 

Overall, she has produced one AVCA All-America Honorable Mention selection (Miramontes), two AVCA West Region Team members (Miramontes, Cunningham), twelve all-conference honorees and two conference Freshman of the Year (Aladjova, Jackson).

In 2008, the UNLV Rebels put together a strong run at the NCAA tournament despite losing 4 senior starters.  They picked up preseason wins against Arizona State and Baylor and defeated then #5 Colorado State at the Cox Pavilion.  The team earrned 2 All-Conference players (Nua, Cunningham) and Cursty Jackson earned Freshman of the Year honors.   

The Rebels had a magical run in 2007, which saw them notch a program-best 24 victories to only six defeats. The squad was recognized in the national rankings for the first time in program history with UNLV being listed in 13 consecutive polls. The Rebels achieved back-to-back weeks as the 25th-ranked team and 11 weeks in the "receiving votes" category. 

In 2006, the Rebels won 20 matches for only the third time in school history. The 20 victories included a six-match winning streak that led the Rebels to a 8-2 mark to open up the season, while two four-match streaks followed during the year. One of the highlights of the season was guiding UNLV to its first victory in Las Vegas over Colorado State on Nov. 12. In MWC action, the squad finished fourth for the third straight year with a 10-6 record.

In 2005, Keeley's squad closed out the season with a 15-15 overall record, while finishing 10-6 in the MWC (fourth place), but came within one point of playing in the program's first-ever MWC Championship.

In 2004, Keeley revitalized a program that between 1978 and 2003 had only four winning seasons in 14 years of play (no team was fielded from 1981-83 and 1986-95). The squad finished the `04 season with a 15-12 record and the program's highest finish in MWC play (fourth) with an 8-6 mark.

Besides coaching success on the court, her players have also excelled in the classroom. Thus far, Keeley has produced 32 Academic All-Mountain West Conference selections, which included a league-high 10 in 2005.

Prior to coming to UNLV, she was the head coach at Villanova University from 2001-03. 
Before her three years at Villanova, she was the head coach at Southern Arkansas University, a NCAA Division-II school, for three years.  From 1996-98, she was the head coach at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.  She began her coaching career at Sparks High School in Sparks, Nev.

Keeley graduated in 1990 from Carleton College with a B.A. in political science while also earning all-conference honors as a setter on the volleyball team. She earned her master's degree in education from Azusa Pacific in 1998.