Rob Keys

Rob Keys is the defensive backs coach and the special teams coordinator at Slippery Rock University, a position he assumed in 2006. Prior to coming to SRU, he served one season as safeties coach and special teams coordinator at Indiana State, five seasons as co-defensive coordinator, defensive backs coach, and special teams coordinator at the University of Findlay (OH), and one season in that same role at Glenville State College (WV). A 1996 graduate of West Virginia University, where he played football for the Mountaineers and earned the special teams MVP award in 1995 (the same season in which he served as a team captain), was selected as the top walk-on player in 1994, and was named to the Mountaineer Club (the highest honor a WVU player can achieve) in 1994 and 1995. He was a member of the WVU teams that won the 1993 Big East Conference championships and played in the 1994 USF&G Sugar Bowl and 1994 Carquest Bowl games. Keys started his coaching career as an offensive graduate assistant from 1996-1998 at WVU, his alma mater.