Hall of Fame Inductees
Lexi Keeler was an outstanding Wesleyan volleyball player and a key member on the most successful Cardinal women’s volleyball team in program history.
Lexi is the all-time leader in service aces with 361. She also holds the school record for most aces (144) and aces per set (1.19) in a season, and most aces (12) and blocks (11) in a match. In 2000 and 2001 she won the University’s Jones Award for volleyball, and in 2002 she was recognized with the Roger Maynard ’37 Award for an exemplary senior scholar-athlete.
Lexi was co-captain of the 2000 volleyball team, which won the ECAC Championship. In 2001 she again was a team captain as the Cardinals amassed a 30-6 overall record and a 9-1 mark in NESCAC en route to their first-ever NCAA Championship appearance. Lexi was named NESCAC Player of the Year. Wesleyan earned the No. 1 seed in the NESCAC Tournament before falling short in the title match. Then, behind Lexi’s stellar play, the Cardinals reached the second round of the national postseason tournament. Lexi received an AVCA All-America Honorable Mention. She was awarded the Scott Prize in Romance Languages for excellence as a French studies major and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
In 2006 Lexi joined a team of Wesleyan volleyball alumni at the international Gay Games in Chicago, where they won a gold medal. A cousin of Kathy Keeler ’78, the outstanding Cardinal rower inducted into the Wesleyan Hall of Fame in 2008, Lexi now lives in Seattle with her wife and three children. Lexi works at Summer Search, a nonprofit educational organization.
