COACHING STAFF

Keithan Gregg
Associate Head Coach

Keithan Gregg will enter his second year as associate head coach of the Vikings in 2022-23, though the season will mark his eighth overall on the Park Blocks. Gregg spent his first two years as the Vikings' Director of Basketball Operations, before serving as a full-time assistant for the next four seasons.

Gregg has orchestrated the Viking defense in his time on the Park Blocks, with his defensive schemes marking a strength of the program. The defense reached its pinnacle during the Vikings’ championship run in the 2018-19 season. The Vikings led the Big Sky while ranking 13th in the nation in field goal percentage defense that season, holding opponents to only 35.6 percent shooting from the floor. The Vikings also led the Big Sky in steals per game (9.8), blocks per game (5.3) and turnover margin (+1.39) that season, and ranked second in scoring defense (60.3 points allowed per game) and three-point field goal percentage defense (30.4%).

The 2018-19 title marked only the second Big Sky tournament title for the Vikings, and advanced the team to the NCAA tournament for only the second time in program history. The 2018-19 Vikings also made history while going 25-8 overall, the most wins in a season during the program’s Big Sky era. The Vikings also tied Big Sky era records for home wins (14) and Big Sky wins (14), and set a new Big Sky era record for road winning percentage (.615).

March runs have been common during Gregg's tenure at Portland State. The Vikings are 9-5 at the Big Sky tournament in Gregg's six years on the Park Blocks, having won at least one game at five of the last six conference tournaments. Besides the 2019 tournament title, the Vikings made the semifinals in 2017 and 2018, and made the quarterfinals in 2020 and 2021.

The 2021 tournament featured the most complete game of the season for the 2020-21 Vikings, as they beat Eastern Washington 71-51 in the first round. The 20-point margin of victory was the biggest of the season against a Division I opponent, as the Vikings put things together following a pandemic-altered regular season.

The Vikings practiced 5-on-5 only 25 times during the 2020-21 season, a fraction of what they would have done normally. Despite that, the Vikings were 6-2 in games decided by three points or less, with Jada Lewis (vs. NAU on Feb. 11 & SUU on March 5), Kylie Jimenez (vs. Montana on Feb. 4) and Desirae Hansen (vs. NAU on Feb. 14) all making game-winning plays in the final seconds during the season. Jimenez and Hansen received All-Big Sky third-team honors for the second straight season at the end of the year.

The Vikings went 16-16 in 2019-20, the third straight season where the Vikings were at .500 or above. The Vikings beat Eastern Washington 83-70 in the first round of the Big Sky tournament, the fourth straight season in which the Vikings have won at least one game at the conference tournament.

Hansen and Jimenez, two players Gregg has worked closely with as one of the team's primary guards coaches, were each named to the All-Big Sky third team as the pair led the Vikings with 14.3 and 12.1 points per game, respectively. Hansen scored in double figures in 12 straight games to finish the season, including four 20-point games in the Vikings' last six games. Jimenez, meanwhile, reached 1,000-career points against Weber State on Feb. 29, becoming the 19th member of the 1,000-point club at Portland State, as well as the third new member in the past three seasons.

Portland State led the Big Sky in free throw percentage (.791) and three-point field goal percentage (.373), and ranked fifth and 11th in the nation in each category, respectively.

The Vikings' .373 three-point percentage set a new Big Sky-era program record, crushing the old mark of .359 that the Vikings set two years earlier in 2017-18. The Vikings broke the single-game record with 15 three-pointers against Eastern Washington on Feb. 15, breaking a mark that had stood since Dec. 29, 2007. The Vikings matched the record two weeks later while going 15-of-31 (.484) from deep against Weber State. The Vikings also set a new overall program record with 261 made three-pointers, as three different Vikings moved into the single-season top 10 for makes in Belle Frazier (64), Jimenez (63) and Hansen (60).

The previous year, Ashley Bolston, another guard who worked closely with Gregg, led the Vikings to the Big Sky tournament title as she was named the tournament MVP after averaging 14.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game in the Vikings’ three wins at the tournament. Bolston was also named to the All-Big Sky second team after a regular season in which she became just the second Big Sky athlete to record two triple-doubles in a season between her performances against UC Davis (21 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists) and the University of Portland (19 points, 10 rebounds, 12 assists and nine steals).

Bolston also moved into the career top 10 for scoring during the 2018-19 season, along with fellow senior guard Sidney Rielly. Rielly finished fourth (1,501 points) on the all-time scoring list after becoming just the fourth PSU player to score over 1,500 points her career, while Bolston finished ninth with 1,334 career points. Rielly led the Vikings with 14.0 points per game during the season, and was named to the All-Big Sky first team following the regular season. Rielly was the first Viking to be named to the All-Big Sky first team since Eryn Jones made the first team following the 2010-11 season.

Hansen also became just the second Viking to earn Top Reserve honors from the Big Sky as she shared the honor with Eastern Washington’s Uriah Howard. Hansen earned the honor after averaging 8.3 points per game in Big Sky play, and went on to hit the game-winning shot in the Vikings’ 61-59 win over Eastern Washington in the championship game of the Big Sky tournament.

Jimenez was named an All-Big Sky honorable mention after leading the Big Sky with 2.6 steals per game while also ranking second in the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.3) and third in assists per game (4.7). Jimenez was also named to the All-Big Sky tournament team, after she scored a game-high 22 points in the Vikings’ 75-59 upset win of top-seeded Idaho in the semifinals of the Big Sky tournament.

Jimenez and Bolston each ranked in the top five of the Big Sky in terms of assists per game, while the Vikings led the Big Sky and ranked 13th in the nation with 17.2 assists per game as a team. The Vikings finished with 569 total assists during the season, the most assists by a Viking team during the program’s Big Sky era.

In his first year as a full-time assistant in 2017-18, Gregg helped assist in the development of All-Big Sky guards Bolston and Rielly. Bolston and Rielly earned All-Big Sky second- and third-team honors, respectively, following the season, while Bolston ranked 10th in the Big Sky with 16.6 points per game.

Rielly joined the 1,000 points club during the 2017-18 season, making her just the third Viking to ever reach the benchmark after only two years in the program. Rielly went over 1,000 points while leading the team with 24 points in the Viking’s Big Sky first-round win over Northern Arizona on March 5, 2018.

Gregg was also instrumental in Jimenez being named the 2017-18 Big Sky Freshman of the Year, making her the first Viking to earn the honor since Kelli Valentine following the 2007-08 season. Jimenez earned the honor while leading the Big Sky with a 2.7 assist-to-turnover ratio, and also ranked fourth and seventh in assists per game (4.5) and steals per game (1.8), respectively.

Kiana Brown also led the Big Sky and ranked seventh in the nation with a .898 free throw percentage in 2017-18. As a team, the Vikings ranked second in the Big Sky and fifth in the nation with a .786 team free throw percentage – the second highest single-season free throw percentage in program history.

Additionally, the Vikings posted the top three-point field goal percentage since joining the Big Sky in 2017-18, shooting .359 from beyond the arc.

A native of Cut Bank, Mont., Gregg played three years of basketball at the University of Great Falls (now the University of Providence) from 2005-2006 and then from 2007-2009. He led the NAIA in assists during the 2005-06 season.

He became the assistant coach at Great Falls in 2009 and coached there for five seasons, helping the team get as high as No. 21 in the nation in 2013. He recruited the 2013 and 2014 Frontier Conference Player of the Year in Marcel Towns.

Gregg became the Ashland High School Head Boys’ Basketball coach for the 2014-15 season, and led the team to a 12-12 record and a first-round appearance at the Oregon 5A state tournament, two years removed from a one-win season. Gregg coached Collin Malcom, an All-Midwestern conference first-team selection who went on to become an NAIA honorable mention All-American at Warner Pacific in 2017-18. Gregg also led the Ashland High School Girl’s Tennis team to the 2015 Oregon 5A State Championship as its head coach.

Gregg earned a Master’s Degree in organizational management from the University of Great Falls in 2013. Gregg also earned his Bachelor’s Degree in elementary education from Great Falls in 2010.

Beth Mounier
Assistant Coach

Beth Mounier joined the Vikings as an assistant coach in June 2021, and will enter her second year on the Park Blocks during the Vikings’ 2022-23 season.

Mounier stepped into her new role as one of the most promising young coaches on the West Coast. Mounier counts both Tara and Heidi VanDerveer as mentors, having served on the staff at both Stanford and UC San Diego, where she also played for Heidi VanDerveer from 2014-17.

Mounier worked as an intern for Tara VanDerveer at Stanford during the Cardinal’s 2018-19 season. Mounier’s responsibilities at Stanford saw her create personalized mailouts for ESPN No. 1 recruit Haley Jones, who went on to be named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four during Stanford’s 2021 national championship run. In addition to that, Mounier also assisted the coaching staff with scouting, recruiting and video breakdown among other tasks during her time at Stanford.

Mounier then earned a 2020 Tara VanDerveer fellowship, which seeks to provide opportunities for aspiring females to excel in coaching.

The fellowship overlapped with Mounier’s time as the Video Coordinator at UC San Diego, a role she served in during the Tritons’ 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons. Mounier helped lead the Tritons to a share of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) regular-season title in her first year on staff, and the team won the CCAA tournament title that season as well. Mounier also helped the Tritons shift to NCAA Division I status, which the Tritons did before the 2020-21 season.

Mounier also had a successful run as a player at UC San Diego, where she played from 2014-17. Mounier earned All-CCAA first-team honors as a senior, when the Tritons won the CCAA regular-season title outright after sharing the honor the previous year.

Mounier was born and raised in Los Angeles, Calif. While at UC San Diego, she earned a B.A. in Communications in 2017.

TJ Harris
Assistant Coach

TJ Harris joined the Vikings as an assistant coach in June 2021, and will enter his second year on the Park Blocks during the Vikings’ 2022-23 season.

Harris came to the Vikings with experience coaching at multiple different levels of basketball. Before joining the Vikings, Harris worked as an AP Chemistry Teacher at Combs High School in San Tan Valley, Ariz., while also serving as a men’s assistant coach at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. Harris also simultaneously held head coaching responsibilities for the Boys and Girls teams at Northland Preparatory Academy in Flagstaff, Ariz., from 2017 to 2020.

Harris played for the University of Great Falls (now the University of Providence) from 2011-15 where he crossed paths with fellow Viking coach, Keithan Gregg, who was an assistant on Great Falls’ staff during Harris’ first couple years as a collegiate player. Harris earned first-team all-conference honors as a senior, when he averaged 14.8 points, 4.0 assists and 1.5 steals per game while shooting nearly 43 percent from three-point range.

Harris also served as a player coach during Great Falls’ 2015-16 season, and has coached at Youth Camps the Phoenix Suns have put on from 2014 to current day.

Harris was born and raised in Huntley, Mont. While at UGF, he earned a B.A. in Secondary Education in 2016, then went on to earn a Masters of Education (M.Ed) in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University (NAU) in 2020.