Keilani Unga enters her fourth season on head coach Dan Nielson's staff at Utah Valley University. She helped lead the Wolverines to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2020-21, where they faced No. 1 and eventual national champion Stanford. During her tenure on staff, she has coached six All-WAC, two WAC All-Defensive Team picks, a WAC All-Newcomer selection, and 19 Academic All-WAC honorees.
The 2020-21 team finished 13-7 overall and 10-4 in WAC play (including a 4-2 mark on the road), setting a program record for WAC wins since joining the conference in 2013-14. UVU also finished second in the conference for the second straight year and have gone 19-10 in the WAC over her first two seasons on staff.
She coached two first-team All-WAC selections in 2020-21 in Maria Carvalho and Josie Williams. Two players on the WAC's first team was also a program first. Shay Fano and Nehaa Sohail were also named honorable mention All-WAC with Fano, a Southern Utah transfer, also being named to the All-Newcomer Team, and Carvalho was on the All-Defensive Team for the second straight season.
UVU is Unga's her first foray into coaching collegiately after spending time as a personal trainer and an assistant coach at Mountain View High School in Orem, Utah. She also played at BYU from 2007-13, with two seasons off (2010-12) giving birth to her first two children. Unga graduated from BYU in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in life science.
Unga is from Warrenville, Illinois and prepped at Wheaton Warrenville High School. She is the sister of former NFL tight end, Tony Moeaki, who played collegiately at Iowa. Her husband, Harvey, played football at BYU and in the NFL and is the current running backs coach at Brigham Young. They are the parents of four kids: Jackson, Leila, Makai and Naomi.
