Chris Keevers

Head Coach

Indianapolis-native Chris Keevers enters his sixth season as the UIndy head coach in 2024. After spending 25 years as an assistant at UIndy, He took over as the head man in 2019 and has already compiled an impressive list of accomplishments in his relatively short time at the helm.

Keevers was voted the GLVC Coach of the Year by his peers three times in the last four years. He captured back-to-back conference crowns in 2022 and '23 after earning his first GLVC title in the spring of 2021. He also guided the Greyhounds to NCAA Division II playoff appearances in '19, '22 and '23, while his .787 career winning percentage is tops in program history*.

Last fall, the Hounds capped a nine-win regular season with a convincing 41-3 victory at Southwest baptist, clinching the program's ninth outright GLVC crown. UIndy excelled on both sides of the ball, finishing the season ranked second in all of Division II in red zone defense, sixth in passing efficiency, eighth in scoring defense and 17th in total offense.

Prior to taking over the head job at UIndy, Keevers wore numerous coaching hats, working with all positions on the defensive side of the ball, while also spending time as both a special teams and strength & conditioning coach. In his 12th and final season as the Greyhound defensive coordinator in 2018, he led a unit that ranked 13th in Division II in passing defense, 15th in scoring defense and 18th in total defense.

Since UIndy football joined the Great Lakes Valley Conference in 2012, Keevers has helped the Hounds to nine conference titles and eight NCAA Division II playoff appearances, a span that includes a 103-27 (.792) overall record and a stellar 56-8 (.875) mark at home.

Prior to joining the UIndy staff in 1994, Keevers helped Division II St. Mary’s College (Calif.) to three winning seasons as the Gaels’ defensive line, special teams and strength & conditioning coach from 1991-93. He also spent three seasons as the defensive line graduate and student assistant at Purdue, his alma mater.
 
As a player, Keevers’ career began at Coffeyville Community College (Kan.), where he was a Junior College All-America Honorable Mention honoree. He transferred to Big Ten-member Purdue University and excelled on the defensive line as a two-year starter.
 
In 1986, he earned a spot on the Boilermaker d-line and started on the same side of the ball as future NFL Hall of Famer Rod Woodson. As a senior in ‘87, Keevers was named the ABC “Player of the Game” for his performance at Iowa in October of that season, and he later won the team’s Leonard Wilson Award (for “unselfishness and dedication”). He was also nominated for the athletic department’s Red Mackey Award (for “competitive spirit, a positive attitude, loyalty, self-discipline, hard work for the best interest of the team and a willingness to help others”).
 
A graduate of local John Marshall Community High School, Keevers earned a communications degree in 1989 and a master’s degree in education administration in ‘91 – both at Purdue.  He and wife Alexis have four children: Chris, Jessica, Tucker (who is currently on the UIndy football roster) and Porter (a current UIndy wrestler).