Coach Kevin Keathley has spent eight years coaching basketball on the college and pro levels. Keathley began his career as an assistant coach at Lees College in his home state of Kentucky. He served as the Lees College top assistant and later interim head coach. Following his stint at Lees, Keathley joined the coaching staff at Saint Catharine College, where the Patriots averaged 95.6 points per game in 2002. After two years at Saint Catharine, Keathley was named Associate Coach and Director of Basketball Operations for the Louisville Eagles of the UPBL. Keathley helped to guide Louisville to the 2003 UPBL championship. 

In 2004, Keathley was named Head Coach of the ABA's Kentucky Colonels. The Keathley-coached Colonels finished the 2005 season 21-12, falling to eventual champion Arkansas in the second round of the playoffs. The Colonels ranked fourth in the Massey Ratings. Keathley was named the ABA Coach of the Year following the 2005 season. At the time, he was the youngest head coach in all of pro basketball. In 2006, Pro Basketball News ranked Keathley as one of the top 10 young coaches in America. Most recently, Keathley was the top assistant coach of the ABA's Rio Grande Valley Silverados.

The East Kentucky Miners Coach has authored a book on basketball, entitled Hardwood Constitution - A Blueprint to Coaching Success. Keathley has returned to coach in Eastern Kentucky, where he spent most of his childhood.