Keith Gavin is the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh wrestling program in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A former Pitt national champion, he returned to his alma mater in 2017 as the program's 11th head coach after building coaching experience at Oklahoma and Virginia and competing for years on the international freestyle circuit.
Under Gavin, Pitt reestablished itself as a contender in the ACC and on the national stage. The Panthers shared the 2023 ACC dual title, and Nino Bonaccorsi won the 197-pound NCAA championship that season to end Pitt's 15-year national title drought and join Gavin among the school's NCAA champions. Pitt also produced NCAA finalists Jake Wentzel and Bonaccorsi in 2021, the program's first pair of national finalists since 1963, and finished 11th at the NCAA Championships for its best team result since 1970. Gavin was named ACC Co-Coach of the Year for that 2021 season. His teams later matched the program's best ACC Championship finish since joining the league by placing second in 2024-25, when Reece Heller, Mac Stout, and Dayton Pitzer won conference titles, Pitzer was named the event's Most Outstanding Wrestler, and Stout became Pitt's 85th All-American with a seventh-place NCAA finish.
