Keegan Kempf was promoted to Assistant AD for Football in January 2026 after joining head coach Travis Johansen's staff as the Director of Football Operations in the spring of 2025 and his first season at South Dakota. He spent two seasons at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2023-24).
Kempf started at North Carolina in May 2023 as a football operations assistant for the 2023 season. In April of 2024, he was promoted to Assistant Director of Football Operations where he became more involved with the operations of the Tar Heel football program. In his time in Chapel Hill, he helped oversee the UNC travel party in securing team hotels, rooming lists, scheduling. He served as the head of the travel party and worked with the Tar Heel coaching staff on day-to-day needs of the football program.
Following graduation, he served as a football operations graduate assistant at the University of Utah for the 2022 football season. There he got involved with the day-to-day operations of handling a football program.
As an undergrad at Ohio State, Kempf was a football program volunteer. In August 2021, he was a football operations intern at the University of Ohio.
Kempf is a 2022 graduate of Ohio State University with a degree in business administration. He earned his master's degree in finance from the University of Utah in 2023.
