In all Keating has 27 years of coaching experience, including three years coaching wide receivers at Division I-AA Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. from 2000-2003 under head coach Frank Tavani.

Keating owns 106 wins in his 16 years as head coach at Pottsville and trails only the legendary Bill Flynn in these categories at the school. Two of his teams have won Eastern Conference AAAA Championships; two of his teams were District XI AAAA runner-ups - losing to Easton High School in 1991 and 1993. This past season, Keating’s squad posted the best turn-around season in the state of Pennsylvania, going from 2-8 in the 2003 campaign to 10-2. In doing so, the 2004 squad captured the Inter-County League Section I Championship and the school’s first District XI AAA Championship, defeating a previously unbeaten Jim Thorpe squad 25-19.

He has coached nine teams to postseason appearances, and led his 1994 squad to a 42-29 victory over Oviedo High School in Orlando, Fla. at the 22nd annual Rotary Bowl, becoming the first out-of-state team to defeat a Florida high school team in the history of the Thanksgiving Day game.

Nineteen of his players have earned scholarships to Division I-A or I-AA college programs, while four have earned “Big 33” honors. Two have received AP 1st Team All State Honors, and one has received High School All American Honors. He has been named coach of the year by the Schuylkill County Coaches Association seven times and Coach-of-the-Year in the Lower Anthracite Region in 1996 and 2004. He was recently selected to coach in the Pennsylvania Football Coaches Association Annual East-West All-Star Football Classic in Altoona last June.

During his playing career at Pottsville, Keating won two letters under coach Bill Flynn as a running back, quarterback and defensive back. He also ran track for the Crimson Tide. He attended Gettysburg College (Class of 1978) where an ACL-tear cut his playing career short.

Keating currently teaches English at Pottsville and also coaches track for the Crimson Tide. He is married to the former Teresa Torpey and has three children: Kevin (24), Alicia (20) and Patrick (8).