Brad Keller

Brad Keller is the head coach of the USC women’s volleyball team.

Brad Keller is in his sixth season (2025) as the head coach of the USC women’s volleyball team. He was hired as the seventh coach in program history on February 20, 2020.

The Trojans are 85-57 (.599) in five seasons under Keller. In Keller’s first official season as a head coach, the Trojans played the 2020 season during the spring of 2021 due to COVID-19 precautions. USC went 7-8 amidst match cancellations and delays but won its final four matches of the spring. The Trojans went 15-15 in the fall of 2021 and were 10-10 in Pac-12 matches to finish seventh in the league standings.

Keller’s 2022 Trojans broke through and earned an at-large postseason berth into the NCAA tournament. USC finished fourth in the Pac-12 standings with a 13-7 mark in league matches and was 22-11 overall. That year, the Women of Troy reached the second round of the tournament. Outside hitter Skylar Fields was named to the AVCA All-America first team to become the first USC All-American student-athlete under Keller’s tutelage.

In 2023, USC was 12-8 to finish fifth in the final year of the Pac-12 as a 12-team conference. Overall, the Trojans went 19-13 and earned a second consecutive selection to the NCAA tournament. USC won its first-round match but fell to host Pittsburgh in the second round. Fields earned her second All-America award as a Trojan; the third of her career.

The Trojans earned a third straight NCAA berth in 2024 and were 22-10 overall with a 13-7 mark in their first season in the Big Ten for a sixth-place finish. USC advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament but was eliminated by Texas. Setter Mia Tuaniga was named to the AVCA All-America third team.

Prior to USC, Keller was the associate women’s head coach at UCLA in 2019 and helped the Bruins to a 19-12 overall record. UCLA took fourth place in the Pac-12 at 13-7 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament where the Bruins fell to eventual NCAA national runner-up Wisconsin.

Prior to the 2019 season with the women’s team, Keller served six years (2013-18) as an assistant coach for the UCLA men’s volleyball program. While on staff, Keller coached 10 All-Americans and helped the Bruins reach the NCAA national semifinals in 2016 and to a national runner-up finish in 2018. According to Volleyball Magazine rankings, Keller helped bring in four top-ranked recruiting classes at UCLA: in 2013, ’14, ’17, and ’18.

On the national level, Keller has served as a coach for the U.S. Youth National Team programs. He was the head coach of the A1 U.S. Boys’ Youth Team that won silver at the 2018 NORCECA U19 Continental Championship. Keller was also the U.S. Youth National Team’s associate head coach in 2016 and 2017; and served as an assistant coach in 2014 and 2015.

Keller’s collegiate coaching career began at USC where he served as an assistant coach for the Trojans’ men’s program for four seasons (2007-10). In 2009, USC won the MPSF Tournament and finished as the NCAA runner-up. Among the outstanding Trojan men that he coached were Murphy Troy, Tony Ciarelli, Tri Bourne, and brothers Riley and Maddison McKibbin.

Keller joined the UC Irvine men’s program for the 2011 season as an assistant coach where he helped the Anteaters to a No. 3 national ranking and a semifinal appearance in the MPSF tournament. In the fall of 2011, Keller moved to the women’s side of the sport and spent that season as an assistant coach a UConn. In the spring of 2012, Keller was named an assistant coach for the Santa Clara women’s volleyball program. He helped the Broncos through the spring season before he was hired by the UCLA men’s program that summer.

Prior to joining the collegiate coaching ranks, Keller was the owner, director, and a coach of Bay to Bay, a boys’ volleyball club in Northern California, from 2000-06. His club won a pair of silver medals at the Junior Olympics and produced numerous NCAA Division I student-athletes. In the summer of 2006, he served as an assistant coach with the U.S. Men’s Junior National Team.

Keller’s other coaching experience includes two seasons (1995-96) as an assistant with the girls’ team at Del Mar High School in San Jose, California, and as head coach in 1999 of the girls’ junior high team at Harvard-Westlake High School in North Hollywood.

As a student-athlete, Keller played outside hitter and defensive specialist at Loyola Marymount for two seasons (1999-2000) before the school stopped sponsoring the sport. He received his bachelor’s degree in graphic design with a minor in marketing from LMU in 2002.

Keller attended Bellarmine Prep in San Jose, Calif., where he was the CIF Central Coast Section MVP in 1998. His younger brother Jarod played libero for the Stanford men’s volleyball program. Keller was born Dec. 30, 1979.