Brad Keller joins the UC Irvine staff as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2011 season.

Keller served as an assistant coach at USC from 2007-2010, being named the offensive coordinator in 2009. After being named the offensive coordinator, the Trojans ended the year ranked second in kills and assists nationally as well as fifth in hitting percentage. In Keller's tenure, USC had a player ranked in the nation's top 10 in assists or kills each of his four seasons. In four years at USC, Keller helped coach two All-Americans as well as six All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation honorees.

Keller has also worked in several capacities for USA Volleyball. In the summer of 2010, he was an assistant coach with the USA Volleyball Men's Junior National Team, guiding the Americans to a gold medal at the NORCECA Men's Junior Continental Championship in Quebec, Canada. He has also served as an assistant with the 2008 USA Volleyball Boys Select A1 Team and head coach of the Boys Select A2 team. This fall, Keller helped prepare the U.S. Men's National team for the 2010 FIVB World Championship.

He has won several medals at the Boys' Junior National Championships, including a gold medal in 15s in 2010. He is currently coaching with the Balboa Bay Volleyball Club.

Keller was the owner, director and coach of the successful Bay To Bay boys volleyball club in Northern California from 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. He has also run the Bay To Bay Summer Camp since 1999.

His other coaching experience includes two 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.).

He played outside hitter and defensive specialist at Loyola Marymount foe two 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 that won the silver medal at the Junior Olympics.

His brother, Jarod, was a libero at Stanford.