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Brad Keller is in his third season as an assistant with the USC men's squad after joining the program in the summer of 2006. He was named the offensive coordinator in 2009.
Keller, 29, came to USC after serving as the owner, director and coach of the successful Bay To Bay boys volleyball club in Northern California for the previous 5 seasons (2000-06). His club won a pair of bronze medals at the Junior Olympics and produced 8 Division I players, including 5 players who he coached. Three of his pupils played on the USA Volleyball Men's Junior or Youth National Teams, including current Trojan Hunter Current. He also ran the Bay To Bay Summer Camp since 1999.
In the summer of 2006, Keller served as an assistant coach with the USA Volleyball Men's Junior National Team. He then was an assistant with the 2008 USA Volleyball Boys Select A1 Team and head coach of the Boys Select A2 team.
His other coaching experience includes 2 seasons (1995-96) as an assistant with the girls team at Del Mar High in San Jose (Calif.), as each squad won a league title and was the state runnerup, and as the head coach in 1999 of the girls junior high team at Harvard-Westlake High in North Hollywood (Calif.).
Keller has also worked in the printing and graphic design businesses.
He played outside hitter and defensive specialist at Loyola Marymount for 2 seasons (1999-2000) before the school dropped the sport. He received his bachelor's degree in graphic design (with a minor in marketing) from Loyola Marymount in 2002.
He prepped at Bellarmine Prep in San Jose, where as a senior he was the 1998 CIF Central Coast Section MVP as his team won the CIF CCS championship.
He played club volleyball with the Los Angeles Athletic Club team, including the 1996 squad coached by Ferguson that won the silver medal at the Junior Olympics.
His brother, Jarod, is a senior libero at Stanford.
Born Dec. 30, 1979, he is single.
