Hall of Fame
Forward
USF Career Years: 1973-1977
Greg McKeown was born in 1957, and attended USF in the class of 1977. At 6’, 165lbs., he played on the Men's Soccer Team from 1973 to 1977. In the 1975 NCAA Championship, USF beat Brown in the semifinals by 2-1, but it required three overtime periods. San Francisco used a fierce, icy wind to good advantage in controlling the first half: the Dons took 12 shots and allowed the Bruins only three, but neither team could score. Each registered once in the second half and then struggled through the first two overtime periods. After 127 minutes of play, the Dons' Greg McKeown faced Brown's goalkeeper, Dave Flaschen. McKeown looked Flaschen in the eye, dared him, drew him out, and then flipped the ball to forward Mal Roche, who put San Francisco into the finals by slamming it into the net.
In 1976, he scored a goal and assisted on another as the Dons won the NCAA Men's Division I Soccer Championship. In 1977, McKeown captained the Dons to a second consecutive NCAA Division I championship. In 1977, the San Jose Earthquakes selected McKeown in the 1st Round of the North American Soccer League. He played two first-team games over two seasons. From 1980 to 1984, he played for the Sacramento Gold, Carolina Lightin’, and the Charlotte Gold of the American Soccer League. After retiring from soccer in1989, he became the co-owner of the Sacramento Senators of the Western Soccer League. In 2003, McKeown was inducted into the USF Sports Hall of Fame.
He earned a Bachelor's in Accounting at California State University at Sacramento in 1998, and worked in finance for more than thirty years. McKeown worked as a CFO in multiple corporate divisions of Pacific Coast Building Products. McKeown has been the CFO for Somerston Estate and Wine Company in Napa Valley since 2014, and Comptroller for the Cambay Group.
