Keefe has been coaching high school athletics for thirty-one years. While two of those years were at Jesuit High School, twenty-nine have been here at Newman. He has coached track and field at Newman for the twenty-nine years that he has been here. While the head coach of the Newman Varsity Boys’ Track and Field Team for sixteen years, he has won eleven District Championships and been the runner-up five times. Newman has three Regional Championships and two Regional Runner-ups during Keefe's tenure. The Regional Championship in 1992 was the first Regional Championship that Isidore Newman had ever won in Boys’ Track and Field. Newman was the State Runner-up in 1999 which was also the first time that Newman had ever finished second in the State Meet. Keefe was the head coach when Chip Abbott was a state champion in the 100 meter dash in 1993, Adam Biderman was a state champion in the discus in 1998 and Trevor Middleton was a state champion in the 800 meter run in 2004. Before he came to Newman in 1976, he coached at St. John Vianney Prep High School for 1/2 year, at Jesuit (N.O.) for three years and at Carver Junior High in St. Charles Parish for three years. He coached football and basketball at Jesuit and football, basketball and track and field at St. John Vianney and Carver. He has coached the middle school cross country boys’ and/or girls’ teams at Newman for eight years since he decided to make change from coaching football which he had been doing since his arrival in 1976 to coach cross country. He played football, basketball, baseball and ran track and field at Jesuit High School in New Orleans from 1959 – 1964. He was captain of the football team in 1963 when Jesuit was the State Runner-up. He was also a member of the 1964 State Championship Basketball Team.