James McKeown (born March 6, 1956), is a retired American soccer defender who played in the North American Soccer League for the Tulsa Roughnecks and Philadelphia Fury.
McKeown grew up in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey and graduated from Steinert High School in 1974, where he was part of two Group IV championship soccer teams.
[2] He then attended Rider University, playing on the men's soccer team from 1974 to 1977.
He was inducted into the Rider University Athletics Hall of Fame in June 2016.
[3] The Tulsa Roughnecks selected him in the first round (13th overall) in the 1979 North American Soccer League draft.