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Stevie Keller
Position: Associate Head Coach
Other Position: Multi-Events, Pole Vault, Hurdles
City/State: Harvey, N.D.
Alma Mater: Montana State
Graduating Year: 1999
Phone: (701) 231-7344
Email: Stevie.Keller@ndsu.edu
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Stevie Keller
Courtesy: NDSU Athletic Media Relations
Release: 12/17/2012

Now in his 13th year with North Dakota State track & field and his fifth season as associate head coach, Stevie Keller has continued to direct the Bison multi-events, hurdles and pole vault to unprecedented success.

Since the Bison gained full NCAA Division I status in 2008, the number of achievements racked up by Keller's student-athletes is remarkable. In all, Keller-coached athletes have earned 158 All-Summit League honors and 55 Summit League titles over the past five seasons.

Keller has directed four athletes to a total of five first-team Division I All-America honors since 2009, including a fifth-place heptathlon finish by Whitney Carlson in 2011 and a fourth-place finish in the pole vault by Leslie Brost at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championships. In addition, Carlson was a three-time second-team All-American in the long jump and multi-events.

Keller has qualified 13 athletes for the NCAA Outdoor Preliminary Rounds (2010-present) and NCAA Regionals (prior to 2010). Indoors, Keller has coached five NCAA Championships qualifiers.

As a team, the Bison women have won five consecutive Summit League championships both indoors and outdoors. The NDSU men have claimed four indoor and four outdoor titles in the last five seasons.

Keller owns coaching experience on the national and international levels. In 2010 and 2011, he coached Heather Zander, Leslie Brost and Whitney Carlson at the USATF Championships. In 2008, Keller served as an assistant coach for Team USA in the Thorpe Cup decathlon and guided Weston Leutz to a 10th-place finish at the Junior World Championships in the decathlon.

Under Keller's guidance, Brost has developed into the most decorated vaulter in NDSU history, with honors including a fourth-place finish and a school record vault of 14-03.25 at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championships. Brost placed ninth at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and was the top collegiate finisher in the event.

Keller coached Carlson to the NDSU heptathlon school record on her way to a fifth-place finish at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships. The Buchanan, N.D., native also placed ninth in the long jump at the national meet in 2011 and was a second-team All-American in the indoor pentathlon. Carlson was awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship and was later named the NCAA Elite 88 Award winner as the nation's top student-athlete in women's track & field.

In 2010, Heather Zander became NDSU's first multi-event Division I All-American after placing eighth in the heptathlon under Keller's guidance.

Matt Bishoff was NDSU's first male Division I All-American in 2009, taking home the honor in the indoor heptathlon.

Prior to NDSU's move to Division I, Keller coached 10 athletes to 28 NCAA Division II All-American awards, including Nate Schmidt who won two NCAA Division II national championships in the decathlon.  

As an athlete at NDSU, Keller was a two-time North Central Conference champion and a Division II All-American in the decathlon. Keller also competed at Montana State University where he was a Big Sky Conference champion and Division I All-American in the decathlon. He competed in the 2004 Olympic Trials in the decathlon.

He is married to former NDSU distance runner Erin (Klein) Keller. The couple have one son, Kyson, and one daughter, Aspyn.

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