Keitha Dickerson honored at Las Vegas Aces alumni weekend

Keitha Dickerson stood on the Las Vegas Aces logo near center court on June 18, a recognition that tied her Dallas College Mountain View career to the WNBA’s earliest days. The honor came during the Aces’ 30-year alumni weekend, a celebration built around the franchise’s roots as the Utah Starzz and the league debut that began June 21, 1997.

The Aces’ alumni initiative is an annual three-day weekend for former players from the Utah Starzz, San Antonio Stars and Las Vegas Aces, and this year’s version was part of a larger season-long push that includes Legacy Night games, community initiatives, digital fan activations and 30 acts of service across the Las Vegas area. The anniversary program connects the franchise’s past and present, and Dickerson fit that frame precisely: a former WNBA player who has spent years building at the two-year college level.

Dickerson called the return a “full-circle moment” and described the WNBA as opportunity, perseverance, leadership and breaking barriers.

Dallas College named her athletic director in September 2025, after she had been named head women’s basketball coach in 2019. Her earlier stops at the campus include assistant women’s coach from 2008 to 2011 and assistant men’s coach from 2016 to 2019, before she coached the women’s club team from 2003 to 2008. Dallas College also honored her with its Athletics Lifetime Legacy Award in 2026, a distinction reserved for former student-athletes and coaches who excelled athletically and academically and kept excelling professionally and personally after their playing days.

Her playing career had its own footprint. Dickerson was the 24th pick in the 2000 WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx, started 29 of 32 games as a rookie and averaged 4.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game. She played 36 WNBA games total for Minnesota and Utah, a short pro run that still placed her inside the league’s original era and gave her a direct link to the anniversary being celebrated in Las Vegas.

The coaching numbers tell the rest of the story. Mountain View went 12-9 in 2022-23, beat Dallas College Cedar Valley 67-57 for the South Central District championship, reached the NJCAA Division III National Tournament for the first time in program history and helped Dickerson earn Dallas Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors.