Trevor Keeper was named the University of Regina's men's hockey head coach in April, 2025.
Keeper joined the Cougars following a long stint as the head coach at Red Deer Polytechnic. He has coached the Kings since 2012, rebuilding the Kings program after the team hadn't played in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Association for nearly a decade. They sported a 186-99 regular season record since rejoining the league and finished off Keeper's tenure with consecutive ACAC championships in 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Named the ACAC's Coach of the Year in both 2013 and 2017 at RDP, Keeper graduated from the University of Lethbridge in 1990 with a Bachelor of Education degree. He also earned a Master of Applied Science degree in 2007 from the University of Queensland in Australia, as well as a Diploma in Performance Nutrition in 2020 from the Institute of Performance Nutrition in London, England.
Keeper was born in Regina before moving to Yorkton with his family as a pre-teen. After his time as a player concluded, he began his coaching career as an assistant at the University of Lethbridge from 1992 to 1994 and helping the Pronghorns win the CIAU national championship during his second year with the team. Keeper then spent the next seven seasons as a head coach in minor hockey and in Japan with a Sapporo-based squad before moving to Red Deer where he took on a role as an associate coach with the Kings during the 2002-03 campaign. He served as an assistant coach with the Western Hockey League's Red Deer Rebels for four seasons, then was head coach of Red Deer's entry in the Alberta Major Midget Hockey League and Alberta's U16 program for two seasons each.
Keeper is married to Sharon Hamilton, a former basketball player and All-Canadian with the University of Lethbridge. They have one daughter, Stephanie, who played for McGill's women's hockey team during the 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24 seasons.
