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Career Highlights:

  • Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2023)
  • Three-time CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-District (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Four-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Three-time NABC Honors Court (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Finished Stanford career ranked 11th field goal percentage (.551, 166/301) and fourth in games played (136)

As a Graduate Student (2023-24):

  • CSC Academic All-District
  • NABC Honors Court
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in 31 games with one start
  • Averaged 2.4 points and 2.3 rebounds per game on 54.6 percent shooting
  • Scored a season-best eight points against Eastern Washington (Nov. 17) and Northern Iowa (Nov. 24)
  • Secured a career-best 12 rebounds against Eastern Washington (Nov. 17) while tying a career-high with four assists

As a Senior (2022-23):

  • Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year
  • CSC Academic All-District
  • NABC Honor Roll
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in 21 games with nine starts
  • Averaged 4.8 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, shot 58.7 percent from the floor
  • Scored a season-best 14 points vs. Loyola Chicago (Dec. 22), going 7-for-9 from the floor
  • Grabbed a season-best eight rebounds three times

As a Junior (2021-22):

  • CoSIDA Academic All-District
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • NABC Honors Court
  • Appeared in 30 games with 24 starts
  • Averaged 5.3 points and 4.8 rebounds per game
  • First-career double-double, including a buzzer-beater for the win with 16 points and 10 rebounds, against Arizona State in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament (March 9)
  • Scored a career-best 17 points in a win over Washington (Feb. 6)
  • Career-high 11 rebounds against California (Feb. 1), led the team in offensive rebounds per game.
  • Averaged 12 points per game at the Pac-12 Tournament on 67 percent shooting
  • Led the team in “floor burns” with 69

As a Sophomore (2020-21):

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in 24 games off the bench, averaged 1.3 points and 1.8 rebounds per game
  • Had a season-high eight points in the Maui Invitational against Indiana (Dec. 2, Asheville, N.C.)
  • First-career double-digit rebound game at North Carolina A&T (Dec. 6)

As a Freshman (2019-20):

  • Appeared in 30 games off the bench
  • Averaged 2.2 points and 2.0 rebounds per game
  • Scored a career-best nine points against Arizona State (Feb. 13) on a perfect 4-for-4 mark from the field
  • Grabbed seven rebounds against Oklahoma (Nov. 25)
  • Helped Stanford to the nation’s seventh-best defense (KenPom) and 16th-best scoring defense (62.5 ppg)

Prior to Stanford

  • 2019 graduate of Loyola High School in Los Angeles
  • First Team All-CIF Southern Section Division I pick
  • First Team All-Mission League selection as a senior
  • Guided the Cubs to the regular-season Mission League championship
  • Loyola finished 23-7 Keefe’s senior season
  • Averaged a double-double with 15.6 points and 10.8 rebounds to go along with 1.4 blocks his senior season
  • Ranked third in the Mission League in rebounding, eighth in scoring and led the league in offensive rebounds (93)
  • Posted 16 double-doubles for the Cubs as a senior
  • Among the top prospects in the state of California and a top-100 forward nationally
  • Son of Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame inductees Adam and Kristin Keefe, as both were inducted in 2000
  • Father, Adam, was a consensus All-American during his standout Cardinal career from 1988-92, finishing as Stanford's career rebounding leader (1,119) and ranking third in program history in career scoring (2,319)
  • Mother, Kristin, the former Kristin Klein, was a four-time All-American volleyball player (1988-92) and member of the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team
  • Sisters, Caitlin and Michaela, are members of the Stanford women's volleyball team
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2019-20
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6-9 / 220 lbs
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2020-21
Forward
6-9 / 225 lbs
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2021-22
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6-9 / 235 lbs
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2022-23
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6-9 / 240 lbs