Welcome to the Keesler Connections page! Here you can find clubs to join around base ranging from basketball to video gaming. These clubs were created to allow Keesler personnel and their families the ability to connect with others on base in a COVID safe environment. Just click on the club you are interested in and contact the club mentor to join!
For information on starting your own club, please fill out the contact form below.
Club Mentor: Kate Mudrak, selfdefense.keesler@gmail.com
Want to learn how to protect yourself? Want to feel safer going out? Want to have fun and get a great work out? Join the self-defense club where the instructor will teach you Krav Maga (the official fighting system used by the Israeli Army.) The instructor, Kate, has been practicing Krav Maga since 2009 and has been a certified instructor since 2012.
Learn how to properly punch, defend against strangulations, learn front, groin, and round kicks, wrist and hair pull defenses, eye and throat gouges, and much more!
All classes held in Dolan Hall room 153 (across from SARC and next to SVC office)
*Current schedule: For SAPR’s Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM) classes held every Thursday at 1730 in April - 1, 8, 15*, 22, 29th. April 15th is reserved for the youth center teens for #safedate event. And every Friday in April – 2, 9, 16, 23, 30th. April 2nd and 16th are reserved for training students only.
If interested, send an email to selfdefense.keesler@gmail.com to get the latest schedule. *Private or unit PT classes available as well*
Club Mentor: Nicholas Hallman, nicholas.hallman@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: Jessica Johnson, jessica.johnson.6@us.af.mil
Takiyah Shumpert, takiyah.s.shumpert.mil@mail.mil
Club Mentor: Daanyaal, Shearwood, daanyaal.a.shearwood.mil@mail.mil
Club Mentor: Makayla Davis, makayla.davis.1@us.af.mil
Club Mentor:
Club Mentor: David Leon, david.m.leon10.mil@mail.mil
The gulf coast has some of the most diverse paddling environments in the country. Dedicated to sharing knowledge and building community with experienced paddlers of kayaks, paddleboards, canoes, and surfskis, we will help those with the appropriate equipment and skill explore bayous, cypress swamps, black water creeks, and muddy rivers. Camp out on river sand bars, and paddle miles of open water to visit the barrier islands in the Mississippi Sound. Train and race the Battle of the Bayou, the Pascagoula Run, or the Chattajack. Let’s hit the water!
Club Mentor: Kenneth Leggett, kenneth.leggett.4@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: Jazmonique Jones, jazmonique.l.jones.mil@mail.mil
Korrie Johnson, korrie.a.johnson.mil@mail.mil
Club Mentor: Pamela Lanier, pamela.lanier@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: Kimberly Brooks, kimberly.brooks@us.af.mil
Atiya Nathan, atiya.c.nathan.civ@mail.mil
Club Mentor: Odis King, odis.king@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: Dangellette Woods, www.militarysorority.com
Club Mentor: Dangellette Woods, Keesler Youth Center
Club Mentor: Jonathan Talley, jonathan.talley@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: William Naron, william.naron@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: William Schmid, william.schmid.1@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: Dewi Clark, dewi.clark@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: Jennifer Nguyen, keeslerphotoclub@gmail.com
Joel Yerkey, keeslerphotoclub@gmail.com
Experience life through a lens with other budding photographers! The Keesler Photography Club is a place where all skill levels gather to discuss topics ranging from basic camera functions to composition to editing. We’ll shoot together using various styles such as landscape, night, portrait, and more. Whether you’re just learning how to pick up a camera or your photo is the next National Geographic cover, we’d love to have you!
Please email or join our Facebook Group, @KeeslerPhotoClub for more details and our meeting schedule.
Club Mentor: Faustina Lai, cheffaussy@gmail.com
Club Mentor: Amanda Wright, amanda.wright.19@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: Alvin Cantey, alvin.cantey@us.af.mil
Julia Montgomery, julia.montgomery.1@us.af.mil
Club Official Email: KeeslerGamingClub@gmail.com
Mission Statement: : Provide a fun networking and social environment for those interested in gaming including but not limited to: Board, Tabletop, Roleplaying, Card, Console, and PC Gaming.
Mission Body: Interested in finding a like-minded group of people into things like Spades? Looking for great D&D group play? Or possibly find friends that enjoy fun filled game nights filled with board games or card tournaments!
The Keesler Gaming Club is a great place to make these connections and have a sustained network of like interested people. We look forward to hearing from you all!
Club Mentor: Andrew Simmonds, andrew.simmonds@us.af.mil
Club Mentor: Jimmy Simmons, jimmy.w.simmons6.ctr@mail.mil