Bio

Keitha Dickerson was named head women's basketball coach at Dallas College Mountain View in 2019, marking her return to the Lions women's basketball program. 

Dickerson guided the Lions to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III National Tournament for the first time in 2022-23 as the Lions went 12-9 overall, 3-1 in the Dallas Athletic Conference. She was named the DAC Coach of the Year. 

In the 2020-21 COVID-altered spring season, Dickerson guided the Lions to the NJCAA Division III Southwest District championship game. She was selected as the DAC Coach of the Year. In her return to the sidelines as head coach with the Lions in 2019-20, her team won four more games than the previous season, going 12-11. 

She served as an assistant coach with Mountain View men's basketball team from 2016-19. The Lions went 59-34 in those three seasons, advancing to the Metro Athletic Conference semifinals in 2017-18.

From 2008-11, Dickerson was the assistant women's basketball coach at Gateway Charter Academy in Dallas. Dickerson's first stint at Mountain View began in 2003, when she was the head coach of the women's basketball club team until 2008.

She was an assistant women's coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2002 when the Roadrunners went 18-11. Dickerson coached one season as an assistant at the University of Texas at El Paso in 2001-02.

Dickerson played 36 games in the WNBA for the Minnesota Lynx and Utah Starzz. In 2000, she started 29 of the 32 games for the Lynx, who made her the 24th pick overall in the 2000 WNBA Draft. She averaged 4.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game for the Lynx. She scored a career-high 15 points against the Seattle Storm on July 5, 2000, and grabbed a career-best eight rebounds twice. She had five assists twice, and three steals on four occasions. 

Dickerson was a Second Team All-Big 12 selection at Texas Tech after leading the conference in rebounding at 10 boards per game, while ranking third on the team in scoring at 11.9 points per game. She finished her Red Raiders career in 2000, ranked sixth on the all-time career list for rebounds at 843. She also ranked fifth on Texas Tech's single season rebound list with 330 and rebound average at 10.0 boards per contest. She had 88 steals as a senior, which ranked 10th all-time in a single season.

Dickerson scored 1,008 points in her career as a Lady Raider from 1996-00. She ranked second in the Big 12 in 1999-00 in double-doubles with 13. She was selected as one of the Top 25 junior players in the United States, and chosen to participate in the Women's Junior World Championship Qualifying Team Trials after her freshman year at Tech.

Dickerson earned a bachelor's degree in exercise and sports sciences from Texas Tech in 2000. She has a daughter, Kylyn.