Assistant coach Keith Komeiji joined the newly resurrected Chaminade University baseball team in 2024, the first such team since 1981 when the Silverswords were a club team. He will be the hitting coach, work with the catchers and coach third base.

In the program's first year of resurrection, the Silverswords won 15 games with eight Pacific West Conference victories. Outfielder Ryan Ruch finished the 2024 season on the All-PacWest Second Team as well as earning conference Freshman of the Year honors after hitting .371. First baseman Casey Kuddell was also named all-conference, earning third team kudos. But perhaps even more impressively, 30 members of the team were named Academic All-PacWest.

Komeiji's impressive coaching credentials include nine years at the University of Hawai'i Manoa from 2002-09, first working with the catchers then being elevated to hitting coach in 2006. It was under his tutelage the Rainbows became one of the Western Athletic Conference's top slugging squads, posting team batting averages of .297 in 2006, .305 in 2007, .288 in 2008 and .287 in 2010. All four season averages are still among the highest averages by UH teams since 2000 heading into the 2024 season.

In 2009, Hawai'i bashed a school-record 64 home runs with three Rainbows -- Kevin McDonald, Vinny Catricala and Kolten Wong -- each finishing in the top 10 in single-season homers. In 2010, the Rainbows won the WAC Tournament and earned a bid to the NCAA Regionals.

Komeiji's work with catchers helped two of them get drafted in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft with Grady Symonds in 2002, Brian Bock in 2003,and Esteban Lopez and Matt Inouye in 2006.

Following his time in Manoa, Komeiji became a volunteer assistant coach at the University of the Pacific from 2011-12.

Prior to Chaminade, Komeiji was an assistant coach for Kamehameha-Kapalama School for four years, helping the Warriors capture the 2023 Hawai'i High School Athletic Association Division I state championship, the school's first since 2003.

A graduate of Kaiser High School in Honolulu, he played one season at UH Manoa then attended Orange Coast College where he was selected in the 1993 supplemental draft by the Seattle Mariners. After six seasons in the Mariners' organization, Komeiji played two seasons in the Italian Baseball League.

After leaving his playing career, he had his first coaching assignment, serving as an assistant at Iolani School in Honolulu from 1995 to 2001.