While looking at the Elite Prospects page for Keegan Davis, you might wonder how the 18-year-old came to play hockey and where he grew up - in Michigan? In Los Angeles? Minnesota?

The truth is, Davis and his family have lived in Minnesota for his entire life, growing up in Ham Lake and in Stillwater, suburbs of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. Keegan was originally inspired to get into hockey from a young age after watching his older brother play the sport and competing on outdoor rinks together.

Davis played youth hockey in his home state for a while but when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, no one was sure of what the future held for sports since rules and regulations seemed to change week to week and month to month. Due to the uncertainty of the situation, Davis and his family started to consider other opportunities for Keegan’s future in hockey.

“Everything was kind of shut down [at the time in 2021] and I heard that in Detroit that hockey was still kind of going so I took a trip out there and did a stickhandling clinic with Sean Skinner and then got a practice with Little Caesars and then just kind of never turned back and kept going with them for the rest of that season,” said Davis about how he eventually wound up playing triple-A hockey out in Michigan.

About 13-years-old at the time, Davis and his mother lived in Grosse Pointe, a suburb of Detroit, while Davis’ father kept their house back in Minnesota. Davis officially competed with the Little Caesars team for a bit, then played for Honeybaked a little before he was sidelined with a shoulder injury, so it was a bit of an up and down season that year.

Davis and his family kept their options open from then on for his future in hockey and they wound up moving back to Minnesota the season after but the 6-foot-1 forward decided to stay on the path of triple-A hockey and he joined the Los Angeles Jr. Kings program. The family did not move out to California though as Davis would typically just fly out to the area some weekends for practices or for games. This wasn’t too unheard of for the Kings team either as there were guys from all over the country on that team, although most were from the central/western U.S.

After a 14U season with the Kings, Davis again made a change and wound up back in Michigan, this time competing for Compuware’s 15U AAA squad in 2023-24. He had a great time there but again was hit by the injury bug after breaking his ankle. After that year, the forward from Minnesota thought that it was time to return home and settle in to playing high school hockey instead.

The Stillwater resident had attended Hill-Murray in sixth and seventh grade so he was considered possibly going back there but then he took a visit out to Benilde-St. Margaret’s in St. Louis Park and immediately fell in love with the Red Knights program. Davis joined the varsity roster as a junior in 2024-25 and his time playing triple-A hockey seemed to prepare him well for the ranks of high school hockey as he posted 34 points through 27 games in his rookie season for Benilde-St. Margaret’s, which was tied for third-most in total points on the roster that year. His 17 goals were second only to senior Junior Podein at the time, who is committed to play Division I hockey at Western Michigan, so Davis’ junior season was incredibly impressive from a statistics perspective. The Red Knights posted a 21-6 overall record that season before ultimately falling to Wayzata in the Class 6AA section semifinal.

“I learned a lot from the seniors and I thought it was a good year. Obviously, we’re in one of the hardest, if not the hardest section in the state, so it was a big learning curve for that first year but then I kind of just fit right in and felt like I was able to contribute,” Davis said about his first year playing high school hockey in his home state.

The forward then decided to return to the Red Knights for his senior year after having such a positive experience there as a junior. He was eventually named a captain of the Benilde-St. Margaret’s squad after showing leadership both on and off the ice in 2024-25 and he wound up making one of the rosters for the Upper Midwest High School Elite League too, so the fall of 2025 held a lot of excitement for the Stillwater native.

“The big thing for me was just having fun. You’re only going to go to high school once so I think staying for that senior year for me was important,” he said about his decision to stay with the Red Knights. “I never got to play in Elite League [as a junior], I would go watch Junior [Podein - his teammate] when he was in it the year before but I just thought that it was really cool and obviously there’s a lot of scouts and stuff there so that was kind of my decision. I just wanted to have fun my senior year.”

Davis had an eye-popping showing at Elite League by posting 31 points through 21 games for Team The Base - which was the most points by anyone on the roster. That certainly started to draw plenty of positive attention towards the 6-foot-1 skater that fall before the start of the high school hockey season. Davis had casually talked with a few college hockey programs prior to Elite League but nothing that ever got too serious. That all started to change after his impressive performance for The Base.

During the NIT event at Elite League, Augustana started talking with Davis along with a few other teams as well. He eventually went on a visit out to the Vikings campus in Sioux Falls when he had free time that fall/winter and he decided to verbally commit to the Division I newcomer about two or three weeks later.

“I’m extremely proud and honored to announce my commitment to Augustana University to further my education and play DI hockey. Thank you to God, my family, friends, teammates, coaches, and advisors for giving me the guidance throughout this journey,” Davis posted to his social media pages on Dec. 20, 2025.

“The way they run things over there, it’s a little different in a very good way. I think that was really, really noticeable,” Davis said about his decision to commit to Augustana. “Obviously, Rabs [Head Coach Garrett Raboin] is a really, really good coach so it was really cool recently to see him stay [after rumors came up that he would take the open position at the University of Minnesota] and I think they finished 13th [in the NPI] so they were really close to making the tournament and they had a great season and it’s only their third year in Division I so we’ve really got a great future ahead of us there.”

Davis joins a large chunk of Minnesotan athletes that are either currently playing at the private, Lutheran university or guys that have been recruited to compete for the school in the years to come. This includes guys that Davis is already familiar with such as 2026 Mr. Hockey Tyden Bergeson (Moorhead), Caleb Pittsley (Edina), Teddy Lechner (Holy Angels), and Brock Cheslock (Rogers), among others.

After making his Division I commitment, it certainly made things a bit easier on the senior forward as he didn’t have to focus so much on exposure and recruitment and he could just play his game with no pressure. It felt much more relaxing to now play hockey while having that college logo next to his name on line charts.

Davis and the Red Knights had an up and down season in 2025-26, posting a 10-13-3 overall record before a heartbreaker of an overtime loss in the Section 6AA quarterfinals to the Academy of Holy Angels. The senior forward led Benilde-St. Margaret’s in scoring by posting 42 points through 26 games - which was 10 more points than the next closest skater on the roster. He now has nothing but fond memories of the Red Knights program and he felt honored the wear the ‘C’ for such a storied team this past year as a senior.

“It’s just such a good team and such a great organization, whether you’re talking about the school, the locker rooms, the rink, you’re always treated so well,” he said. “They’ve [Benilde-St. Margaret’s] had lots of success in the past and being a captain alongside names like Grant Besse and some of those guys, it was pretty cool for sure.”

Looking back on his time playing high school hockey, some of his favorite memories include scoring a goal against Edina in the third game of the season during his junior year or going 2-0 on their northern Minnesota trip in 2025 against top teams in Grand Rapids and Hermantown.

After the conclusion of his senior year with the Red Knights, Davis was able to join the Waterloo Black Hawks of the USHL to get some high-level experience in junior hockey. The 6-foot-1 forward was a sixth round draft pick of Waterloo in the 2025 USHL Entry Draft.

“It’s been great, you learn super, super fast here. If you make a turnover it can be in the back of the net before you know it so there’s a huge learning curve just trying to learn and figure out all the systems and stuff but it’s great, it’s a super supportive organization,” said Davis about his experience with the Black Hawks. Since he had already traveled quite a bit for hockey throughout his career so far it didn’t seem too crazy to move out to Waterloo for juniors. He was able to stay with a great billet family which helped a lot and his own family was able to come down for pretty much every game that he was able to appear in over the past few weeks.

Waterloo unfortunately did not make the USHL playoffs in 2026 but Davis was still able to skate in 12 games with the team, just enough to start to get used to the higher level of competition. That ended up working out well though for the Minnesotan skater as he had finished up Quarter 3 of his high school classes online at Benilde-St. Margaret’s but he likely would’ve had to return in-person for Quarter 4 anyway to finish up his time there.

For now, Davis is focused on finishing up his high school classes before getting into offseason work this summer and playing junior hockey in the fall.

“I think I’m a hard, physical player who is not afraid to hit someone or take hit to make a play but I’m also a skilled player who likes to shoot the puck too,” he said about his style of play.

Davis isn’t quite sure yet what he’ll major in once he gets out to Augustana but is considering something possibly related to business or psychology. It’ll likely be a year or two before the 18-year-old joins the ranks of college hockey but he’ll be a big part of the Vikings forward core along with tons of other Minnesotan recruits before he knows it.

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