Montana State Northern Lights & Skylights Athletics

Arnie Keck taught and coached at Northern from 1963 through 1968, holding the positions of athletic director, athletic trainer, PE instructor, swimming coach, baseball coach, and assistant football coach. Keck's swim program produced several Conference Championships and NAIA All American swimmers, including Little Sullivan Award winner Chad Chadwick in 1967. Keck was named District Coach of the Year in 1965. His service to athletics didn't stop at NMC however. He helped coach and organize swim meets and practices for the Havre Lions Swim Team where he and Harvey Welch coached many state champions. Many of these athletes also went on to receive swimming scholarships at larger schools. In 1968 he accepted a position as assistant professor of physical therapy at the University of North Dakota-Grand Forks. He worked as a physical therapist in Oregon from 1974 to 1978, taught anatomy at the University of California at Davis from 1978 to 1981 when he returned to the UND faculty. Currently an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Anatomy at UND, Keck retired in December, 1996.