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Women's VolleyballAllison Keeley

Women's Volleyball Head Coach

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

NCAA DII • Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference | PSAC

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If you are reading this then you came to the right place. Allison Keeley SHOULD NOT be coaching, period! She is the epitome of a BULLY coach, always negative, always putting down the girls with destructive criticism. She constantly shames them during practice and games, demoralizing each player to the point that they are either afraid of playing, or simply do not want to win for her. She also plays favorites, in which her favorites are the girls that unfortunately don’t speak up about this injustice/abuse. Just look at what she has done to the 2024 Kutztown Volleyball team…scores of upperclass have quit or transferred in past years, resulting in a struggling team that went an appalling 1-27! Girls that play for her are under HEAVY MENTAL ABUSE, often losing their passion to continue playing volleyball. She has a very checkered past, as she comes into a school, decimates the program, kills the team culture, then moves on to the next unsuspecting “victim” school. Please read all the comments on this post, and watch some of the online videos as well from past players so you don’t make this mistake. Shame on KU Athletic Director for hiring her, and for the inevitable next college that unfortunately picks her up. Don’t become another victim by playing for her, you will absolutely regret it!

Women's VolleyballAllison Keeley

Women's Volleyball Head Coach

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

NCAA DII • Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference | PSAC

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Allison Keeley is an ineffective coach and a horrible human being. She has ruined the sport for many female athletes and does not deserve to be coach at any level of the sport. She tells parents that she cares about the athlete’s well being and then proceeds to verbally and emotionally abuse them in front of their teammates. In her first season at Kutztown, she decimated the team roster, getting rid of recognized team leaders and starters whom she feared would not put up with her abusive tactics. And the KU athletic director looked the other way when more than half of the remaining team members quit citing incidents of verbal and emotional abuse. Shame on you Keeley and shame on you KU for letting this horrible person continue to coach in your program.

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I played for this coach from 2014-2016 and I would NOT allow her to coach any young women that I know. She plays favorites, insults her players intelligence and makes them feel less than. If you are not one of her starters, you do not matter as much to her and she does not try and hide that. There is a GOOD reason she has been bouncing around from program to program for the last decade.

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She went out of her way to support and help her athletes that were having personal issues. She cares more for her athletes then most be people could possibly imagine. It was a great learning experience to watch the compassion and help she provided those her really needed someones help. She always put their wellbeing over the need to win games. A incredibly caring individual,thanks.

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She is verbally abusive to her athletes. Google her. She has no patience and can play favorites.

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DirectHonestKnowledgeableBelieves In YouDedicated To Players

She was great at helping me. I felt she truly cared about me and the team. Coach Keeley is direct and you know what she expects. That being said she will do whatever you need to succeed, I just realized I had to be open with her and stop saying I'm fine. I had a lot on my plate and took it out on others but coach never gave up and I am so glad she was my coach. She didn't just want us to succeed in volleyball but everything we did. I think some players got upset when they couldn't get their way. I've had several coaches through the years and coach Keeley did her best to manage many personality types. Everyone has to do their part not just the coach.

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Old School MentalityPoor Communication

Toxic, abusive and divisive. Body shames her athletes. Ineffective preparation and game planning. Archaic and rigid strategies. Incapable of making sensible game or line-up adjustments to utilize her talented roster and wastes subs. 100% uninspiring. Worst volleyball coach ever encountered in 12 years. Allison Keeley needs to be banned from coaching volleyball at every level. Her brand of coaching is an assault on the mental health of young minds and has no place in youth/collegiate sports.

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Abusive terrible coach does not deserve to work with young minds

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Abusive. Does not deserve to coach anybody. She ruins young women’s self esteem. She is a horrible person.

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Allison Keeley has a history of abusive coaching practices that have remained hush hush, which enables her to start over at a new University causing significant mental heath issues for her players. Universities need to wake up and take complaints from athletes seriously. This is not tough coaching, this is toxic coaching that is harmful.

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Current coach at Kutztown University. 7 players quit mid season citing mental health issues brought on by the coach. Gaslights the student athletes while creating a divide amongst the team.