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Kerry Keating, one of the hardest working recruiters
in the nation, enters his third season as a UCLA
assistant coach. Before coming to the Bruins,
Keating for two years (2002-03) was an assistant on
Buzz Peterson's staff at Tennessee.
In 2005, Rivals.com tapped Keating as one of the
nation's Top 25 collegiate recruiters. During the
summer of 2004, he was featured in a USA Today
article about the rigors of college basketball
recruiting and in the fall of 2005 was featured in a
similar article in the Los Angeles Times. In the
2003-04 Athlon Sports College Basketball Preseason
Magazine, Keating was named one of the Top 10
assistant coaches in the U. S. His recruiting
efforts helped UCLA in 2004 earn the nation's No. 4
(Rivals.com) incoming freshman class and in 2005 the
No. 13 (Scout.com) recruiting class. "Kerry brings a
range of knowledge and contacts to UCLA and a known
energy that has helped him develop a reputation as a
tireless recruiter," said Bruin head coach Ben
Howland.
During his two seasons (2002-03) at Tennessee,
Keating helped the Volunteers land top-ranked
recruiting classes -- highlighted in 2003 by
freshman C. J. Watson (Las Vegas, NV), who led the
Southeastern Conference in minutes played and was
the league leader in assists. In 2002-03, Tennessee
was 17-12 overall and advanced to the first round of
the NIT.
Prior to Tennessee, he spent the 2000-01 season
under Peterson at Tulsa in the Western Athletic
Conference. That season the Golden Hurricane was
26-11 overall and won the NIT crown.
From 1998-2000, Keating was an assistant coach under
Peterson at Appalachian State in Boone, NC. During
those two years, the Mountaineers were 44-17
overall, won two regular season conference titles,
made two appearances in the Southern Conference
championship game and earned a 2000 NCAA berth. At
ASU, he worked with backcourt players and was also
responsible for on-campus recruiting and scheduling.
Keating helped aid in the development of Tyson
Patterson, the 2000 Southern Conference Player of
the Year.
Keating's coaching relationship with Peterson began
in the Southeastern Conference at Vanderbilt in
1994-95, when they were both assistants on Jan van
Breda Kolff's staff at Vanderbilt. In all, Keating
and Peterson, now the Head Coach at Coastal
Carolina, worked together at four different schools.
Before his stint at Appalachian State, Keating spent
three seasons (1995-98) at his alma mater, Seton
Hall, as an assistant coach under George Blaney and
Tommy Amaker. With the Pirates, Keating helped
produce two All-Big East guards, Shaheen Holloway
and LaVell Sanders, along with current Chicago Bull
Adrian Griffin. From 1993-94, Keating was an
administrative assistant under Dave Odom at Wake
Forest. The Demon Deacons, led by Randolph Childress
and Tim Duncan, were 21-12 overall and advanced to
the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
The 1993 Seton Hall graduate was a walk-on for head
coach P. J. Carlesimo's Pirates during the 1989-90
season. Keating began his coaching career the next
year when he served as a student assistant coach and
video coordinator from 1990-93. During his four
years in South Orange, NJ, the Pirates won a total
of 88 games and played in the NCAA Tournament each
of his last three seasons. In 1991, Seton Hall
advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight.
Always dapper on the sidelines, Keating in 2003 was
named by CollegeInsider. com's Angelo Lento as the
nation's best dressed collegiate assistant coach and
has been No. 2 in that category the last two
seasons. Keating also frequently contributes columns
to the website.
Keating, 34, was born on July 15, 1971 in Stoughton,
MA and was raised in Rockville Centre, NY. He
attended high school at Archbishop Molloy and
graduated from Seton Hall Prep. His father, Larry,
is one of the country's top collegiate athletic
administrators. Currenty a senior associate athletic
director at Kansas, he was Athletic Director at
Seton Hall University from 1985-97 and also served
as the Associate Commissioner of the Metro Atlantic
Athletic Conference (MAAC) in Edison, NJ. |
