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Sharen M. Keller

  • Class
    1963
  • Induction
    2001
  • Sport(s)
    Women's Basketball, Softball, Women's Volleyball
Sharen M. Keller was an early women’s athletic pioneer who took lessons she learned as a physical education major and math minor and applied them to her professional career as a volunteer, coach and educator.

In her days as a Warrior, Keller participated in what was known as “Play Days.”  Those days were turned into years of participation in community volleyball, softball and bowling leagues.


Those athletic skills eventually turned into coaching skills when she started her career in Sheboygan, WI and later when she started the Coon Rapids, MN High School volleyball program.  She has been head coach for the past 25 years and her teams have posted over 320 wins and also won the Minnesota State High School League Class AA State Championship in 1978.


Keller’s coaching exploits at Coon Rapids High School also extended to golf, track and softball where her slow-pitch softball team won conference championships in its first two years of existence and, after becoming a fast-pitch program, led to a state championship.


Besides coaching, Keller worked several years as a softball umpire and also a few years as a basketball official.


Keller also devotes her time to high school ministry and fund raising events.  Her ministry has also led a mission work abroad, where she has traveled to Hungary, Romania and the Philippines. 
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