Keith is currently the Head Men’s Basketball Coach of the 2024 SUNYAC Champions at SUNY New Paltz and the Assistant Director of Athletics. He has coached college, high school and AAU and trained players for over 25 years. He is also is a Strength & Conditioning Specialist and a Personal Trainer.

Coach Kenney led the Hawks this past season, his 6th season, to the programs only SUNYAC Championship and to the most wins in a season, finishing 20-8. The Hawks defeated the #5 ranked team in the nation Oswego in the 2024 SUNYAC conference championship game and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.

Kenney starred as one of the most talented men’s basketball players to ever suit up for SUNY New Paltz Basketball. A two-time First-Team All-State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) selection. Kenney received the department’s esteemed Floyd Patterson Male Athlete of the Year following the 1998-99 academic year in recognition of his on-court success.

Kenney has the fifth highest career scoring average in SUNYAC play history at 20.5 and totaled 927 career points in less than two full seasons at SUNY New Paltz. Kenney captained the 1999 ECAC Championship team that finished 18-11, and scored 41 points in the ECAC Championship game. The 1999 team holds the all-time record in wins for SUNY New Paltz Men’s basketball. Kenney holds the all-time 3-pointers made record in a game at nine.

Prior to SUNY New Paltz, Kenney played from 1995-97 at SUNY Cobleskill, gaining All-America recognition and graduating as the school's all-time scoring leader (991 points in two seasons) and all-time career steals leader. He remains a member of the Cobleskill Athletic Hall of Fame. His Cobleskill teams went a combined 60-9 in two years, finishing 27-3 in 1996-97 season where he also served as Captain.

In his four years of playing at SUNY New Paltz and Cobleskill Kenney scored a total of 1, 918 points in his college career. His team records were 90-33 in his four years of college basketball.

Kenney played professionally for the Hudson Valley Hawks in 2007 at the age of 30 and averaged 24.5 points a game and was part of the inaugural season championship team.

Kenney is a Middletown, N.Y. native who attended Pine Bush High School where he was selected as a First-Team Times-Herald Record All-Star his senior year, leading Section IX in scoring (26.0 ppg) and gaining All-State Class AA honors.