Keith Keahna began his role as Assistant Director of Communications on June 2, 2025. He comes to Chicago State after working as a graduate assistant in the Sports Information Department at the University of Dubuque from 2023–2025.

While at the University of Dubuque, Keahna oversaw athletic communications duties for both track & field programs, women’s soccer, and men’s hockey. He began his time at UD when the university announced it would take over the men’s and women’s hockey programs from Finlandia University in 2023. The two teams became the 24th and 25th varsity sports at the University of Dubuque. Keahna then became the first-ever communications contact for the men’s hockey team, which remains the first and only NCAA-sanctioned men’s hockey program in the state of Iowa.

He also assisted with all 25 varsity sports at the University of Dubuque, supporting game statistics and data collection, preview and postgame recaps, media day coordination, and game event management. During his time in communications at UD, Keahna promoted and highlighted the men’s track & field program’s three consecutive team runner-up finishes at the American Rivers Conference Championships. He also covered the men’s team’s 10th-place finish at the 2025 NCAA Division III Indoor National Championships—the highest in program history—and celebrated the team’s program-record eight All-American honors earned at a single national championship meet.

Keahna also has a coaching background, having helped the Iowa City West High School boys track and field team win the 2023 Mississippi Valley Conference team championship. Under his guidance, all high jumpers achieved personal bests, and the coaching staff was named the Conference Staff of the Year. The team finished fifth overall at the Iowa High School State Track and Field Championships in Class 4A and won state titles in four relay events.

Keahna also worked for the Iowa Heartlanders Hockey Team, a professional minor league ice hockey franchise in the ECHL, the affiliate team of the Minnesota Wild (NHL) and Iowa Wild (AHL). He served as a gameday operations intern while an undergraduate student at the University of Iowa, assisting with in-game promotions, guest services, and ensuring smooth game operations during the 2022–2023 season.

In fall 2021, Keahna worked as a student employee for the Event Management staff at the University of Iowa. He provided guest services support to fans at Iowa football and basketball games, assisting with crowd control, concession line management, and ticket entry at both Kinnick Stadium and Carver-Hawkeye Arena. He also assisted with the 2021 NCAA Division I Cross Country Midwest Regional and the NCAA Division I Field Hockey Tournament.

A Tama, Iowa native, Keahna was a college track and field student-athlete, competing in the high jump for both the University of Iowa and the University of Dubuque for five combined seasons. During his three seasons at Iowa, he was a member of three Big Ten Conference Championship teams. He was crowned the Class 3A Iowa High School Track & Field State Champion in the High Jump in 2018 and was also a standout football and basketball student-athlete at South Tama County High School. He is an enrolled member of the Meskwaki Nation, also known as the “Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi,” located in Tama, Iowa.

Keahna earned his master’s degree in Sport Management from the University of Dubuque in spring 2025 and his bachelor’s degree in Sport and Recreation Management from the University of Iowa in fall 2022.

He currently resides in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood with his girlfriend, Michaela, and their two cats, Jasper and Betty.