Ken O'Keefe (born August 18, 1953) is an

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coach and former player. He most recently served as the quarterbacks coach for the

Iowa Hawkeyes football The Iowa Hawkeyes football program represents the University of Iowa in college football. The Hawkeyes compete in the Big Ten Conference. Iowa joined the Conference (then known as the Western Conference or Big Nine) in 1899 and played their first ...

team, a position he held from January 2017 through February 2022. O'Keefe served as the

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for the

team from 1999 to 2011. He was the head football coach at the

Allegheny College Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1815, Allegheny is the oldest college in continuous existence under the same name west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is a member of the G ...

from 1990 to 1997 and at

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in 1998, compiling a career

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record of 83–17–1. In O'Keefe's first season at Allegheny, in 1990, his team went 13–0–1 and won the NCAA Division III Football Championship.

Coaching career

While coaching at

, O'Keefe created an exchange program between Russian and American middle school football players. In recognition he received the Dodge Award for language advocacy from the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in 1998. On February 3, 2012, O'Keefe resigned from the Iowa program to take a job with the

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of the

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(NFL). Former Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin spent several years on Iowa's staff, coaching the offensive line from 1999 to 2002. O'Keefe returned to Iowa prior to the 2017 season as its quarterbacks coach. He stepped down from his role after the 2021 season, taking an off-field role in the program.

Head coaching record

References

External links

Iowa profile
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