Kiefer Isaac Crisologo Ravena (; born October 27, 1993) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Yokohama B-Corsairs of the B.League. Ravena played for the Ateneo Blue Eagles of the UAAP during his college days. He plays the point guard position. Ravena is known for being one of the first players to utilize the Pinoy step, which is increasingly being used by NBA players.
The son of former PBA player Bong Ravena, Ravena enjoyed a successful high school basketball career at the Ateneo de Manila High School in Quezon City where he was recognized as one of the top high school basketball players in the Philippines. Ravena is a three-time UAAP Juniors Champion (2008, 2009 and 2010), two-time UAAP Juniors Finals MVP (2009 and 2010), two-time UAAP Juniors Mythical Team member (2009 and 2010), one-time FIBA Asia U-18 Mythical Team member (2010), two-time UAAP Seniors Champion (2011 and 2012) and three-time UAAP Seniors Mythical Team member (2011, 2014 and 2015). He is also the UAAP Season 74 Rookie of the Year and the UAAP Season 77 and 78 Most Valuable Player recipient. At the 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 Southeast Asian Games, he won as a member of Gilas Pilipinas.
During his stay with Ateneo, Ravena have led the Blue Eagles to four Final Four appearances in 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015 including two UAAP championships in 2011 and 2012. He also led Ateneo into two PCCL runner-up finishes in 2011 and 2012. Aside from that, he also led the Blue Eagles to their first championship in the Filoil Flying V Preseason Hanes Cup in 2011 while leading them to a 3rd-place finish in the same tournament the following year. In 2014, Ravena led Ateneo to their 3rd basketball championship in Unigames.
He has also won many accolades while playing for the Blue Eagles, which includes the 2011 Filoil Flying V Preseason Hanes Cup Most Valuable Player Award, UAAP Season 74 Rookie of the Year, UAAP Season 75 Todo Bigay Player of the Year, UAAP Season 77 and 78 Most Valuable Player Award, and the 2014 Unigames Most Valuable Player Award. He is also a three-time UAAP Mythical Five member in 2011, 2014, and 2015, two-time FilOil Mythical Five member in 2011 and 2012, one-time PCCL Mythical Five member in 2012, and one-time Unigames Mythical Five member in 2014.
Aside from the championships and the individual accolades, Ravena also broke some records in the UAAP. On his first ever Ateneo-La Salle game in the UAAP Seniors Division, Kiefer has scored his then-UAAP seniors career best of 24 points (22 in the first half alone) which is at that time the second highest individual scoring output in a first half of a game since Dylan Ababou scored 23 points in 2009. In their Final Four match-up against the DLSU Green Archers in Season 75, Ravena had his then-UAAP seniors career best with 28 points (16 in the payoff period) to go along with 12 rebounds and 7 assists. On August 10, 2014, he recorded his new career high of 38 points on their come-from-behind overtime win against UE before that his career high was 29 points on their second win of Season 77 against their bitter rival La Salle. The 38 points that he made became the then-second highest points made by a single player in the Final Four era next to the 43 points made by the former NU Bulldogs Jeff Napa back in 2002, currently it is the fourth highest scoring output by a single player when Napa's record was surpassed by the 49 points made by UE's Alvin Pasaol and DLSU's Ben Mbala scored 39 points both in 2017. During UAAP Season 77, he also set a new record of most free throws taken by single player in a single game with 25 on their game against UE, he made 19 free throws out of that 25, the previous record was 19 set by another Blue Eagle Chris Tiu in 2008, where he only missed two freethrows. His 77.64 statistical points in season 77 is the highest recorded statistical points made by a single player in one season until it was surpassed by the 92.43 statistical points of La Salle's Mbala in 2016. His 11 assists in their second-round game against the Adamson Falcons in season 78 is the second most assist done by an individual player in the UAAP since 2003, only behind by the 12 assists made by Terrence Romeo against the UE Red Warriors in 2013, tied along with UE's Philip Manalang against the FEU Tamaraws and UP's Juan Gómez de Liaño against UE in 2018 Ravena recorded his season high and second career best of 32 points (21 points in the 1st quarter and 26 points in the first half alone) to go along with 3 rebounds and 2 assists on their second round win against the NU Bulldogs in season 78. His 26 points on the first half is the most points scored by any player in the UAAP, it broke the previous record held by Dylan Ababou who scored 23 points on season 72. Also, Ravena is only the third Atenean and 10th player in UAAP history to win back-to-back MVP awards.
† | Denotes seasons in which Ravena won a UAAP championship |
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|- | style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"| 2011–12 † | style="text-align:left;"| | 17 || 16 || 27.69 || .448 || .156 || .712 || 4.06 || 3.19 || 1.38 || .06 || 13.65 |- | style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"| 2012–13 † | style="text-align:left;"| | 17 || 17 || 30.41 || .467 || .311 || style="background:#cfecec;"| .783 || 5.41 || 3.41 || 1.00 || .18 || 16.00 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2013–14 | style="text-align:left;"| | 12 || 9 || 25.83 || .363 || .204 || .537 || 4.67 || 2.50 || 1.00 || .25 || 12.67 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2014–15 | style="text-align:left;"| | 16 || 16 || style="background:#cfecec;"| 35.31 || .326 || .276 || .705 || 5.81 || style="background:#cfecec;"| 5.50 || style="background:#cfecec;"| 1.44 || .06 || style="background:#cfecec;"| 21.25 |- |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2015–16 | style="text-align:left;"| | 15 || 15 || 32.20 || .387 || .245 || .514 || 5.86 || style="background:#cfecec;"|4.66 || 1.20 || .40 || style="background:#cfecec;"|19.33 |-
On his debut game in the PCBL for the Mighty Sports, he scored 16 points on top of five assists and three steals on their win against the Jumbo Plastic Linoleum Giants. On May 18, 2016, despite having a jetlag, Ravena still managed to score 17 points (12 on the second quarter) to help his team sweep the Euro-Med Laboratory Experts on their best-of-three semi-finals series after missing Game 1 of their semi-finals match-up. On May 22, 2016, he scored 20 points (15 points in the second half) to lead his team to victory in Game 1 of the best-of-three PCBL Finals against the Jumbo Plastics Linoleum Giants. During their Game 2 match-up, against the Linoleum Giants, Ravena who was named the Most Valuable Player, led the Cavaliers with 18 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals in a losing effort. He wasn't able to play in Game 3 of their match-up because he went straight to the airport right after Game 2 to catch a flight going to London to attend a celebrity volleyball match and spend time with loved ones.
He made his PBA debut on December 19 wherein he recorded 18 points, 12 assists and 7 rebounds in a 119–115 win against the Kia Picanto. On December 25, he scored 20 points on top of 5 assists and 4 steals against the GlobalPort Batang Pier. On December 27, he got his first ever PBA Player of the week award after leading the Road Warriors to two consecutive wins.
Starting May 2018, Ravena served an 18-month ban imposed by FIBA on all basketball-related activities including playing in PBA in relation to him testing positive for a banned substance while playing for the Philippine national team. NLEX expressed support for Ravena stating that he had passed multiple drug tests by the PBA, as well as by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas and the Games and Amusements Board believing that he took the pre-workout aid which led to the ban without being aware it contained a substance prohibited by FIBA. In September 2019, he rejoined the team.
In September 2020, Ravena signed a three-year extension to his contract with NLEX.
On August 8, 2022, Ravena re-signed with the Lakes. After the 2022–23 season, the team was relegated to the B2 League.
On May 24, 2023, Ravena signed a one-year contract extension with the team.
He once again played for the Sinag Pilipinas team that was sent to the 2013 SEA Games that was held in Myanmar from December 11–22 but the basketball event started earlier from December 8–16, the team managed to swept the competition and was automatically declared champions of the tournament.
Ravena was named as the team captain of the Gilas Cadets in 2015 that will compete together with Bobby Ray Parks Jr., Kevin Ferrer and Marcus Douthit among others at the 2015 SEABA Championship in Singapore. They won the gold medal in that tournament after winning all their games. Their last game was against the host team. That same squad also competed for the Philippines at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games which was held also in Singapore last June 5–16, 2015, wherein they managed to win the gold medal against Indonesia. With these achievement, Ravena became only the second Filipino basketball player to win three straight SEA Games gold medal in basketball after Rommel Adducul did the trick in 1997, 1999 and 2001. On June 27, 2017, it was confirmed by Chot Reyes that Ravena together with Von Pessumal, Bobby Ray Parks Jr., Kevin Ferrer and Kobe Paras among others will again play for the Philippines for the 2017 William Jones Cup in Taiwan where they finished in 4th place. The same team was also sent in the 2017 Southeast Asian Games where they successfully defended their title. With these, Ravena became the first Filipino basketball player to win a record fourth straight SEA Games gold medal in basketball.
On September 19, 2017, it was announced that Ravena along with Jeron Teng, Jeric Teng, LA Revilla, Carl Bryan Cruz, Almond Vosotros, Norbert Torres and Isaiah Austin among others will be part of the national team which will compete as Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas at the 2017 FIBA Asia Champions Cup in China, wherein they finished the tournament in fifth place.
In November 2017, Ravena was named as part of the Gilas Pilipinas line-up that will compete at the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Chinese Taipei. In February 2018, he was again included to compete against Australia and on their second meeting against Japan.
Ravena represented the Philippines in the 2017 FIBA 3x3 World Cup on June 17 to 21, 2017 in Nantes, France. They finished the tournament at 11th place.
Ravena again represented Team Philippines in an exhibition game held during the FIBA 3X3 World Tour Final this time with Karl Dehesa, Paolo Hubalde and Jayson Castro (who replaced L.A. Tenorio). The event took place in Abu Dhabi, UAE wherein they were defeated by the host team.
Prior to the suspension, Ravena is scheduled to play in the Visayas leg of the PBA All-Star in Iloilo City. However, Ravena was quickly pulled out by the SBP and head back to Manila. PBA Commissioner Willie Marcial didn't divulge further details on why he was pulled out form the game. There were speculations circulating that Ravena have tested positive on performance-enhancing drug.
The PBA has yet to test its players for substances prohibited by FIBA although it has previously sanctioned players for illegal substances such as marijuana and methamphetamine (locally known as shabu).
In November 2019, Ravena returned to the national team as he represented the Philippines in the 2019 SEA Games, wherein he won his fifth straight gold medal.
Ravena was included in the 21-man pool for the 2023 FIBA World Cup, where he was eventually included in the final 12-man lineup.
Ravena also starred in his own reality show called Phenoms together with his fellow Atenean and then-girlfriend Alyssa Valdez, who is a 3-time UAAP volleyball MVP and former team captain of the Ateneo Lady Eagles. The first season aired from August 24 to November 22, 2015, on TV5 and on its official website. In December 2015, it was confirmed that the show will be back for its second season which started on June 17, 2016 and ended on September 9, 2016.
Ravena previously dated volleyball players Mika Reyes (2014-2015) and fellow Atenean Alyssa Valdez (2016-2022). In October 2024, he announced his engagement to model and beauty pageant contestant Diana Mackey. The couple married in June 2025.
2016 | PUSH Awards | Popular Sports Personality | ||
PCBL Awarding Ceremonies | Most Valuable Player | |||
Mythical Team | ||||
Ateneo Athletes' Night Awards | Xavier Athletic Achievement Award | |||
College Basketball Awards | Seniors Player of the Year | |||
Mythical Team | ||||
2015 | UAAP Season 78 Awarding Ceremony | Most Valuable Player | ||
Mythical Team | ||||
Master Gameface Player of the Season | ||||
Enervon Todo Bigay Player of the Season | ||||
2014 | PSA Annual Awards | Major Citation for Collegiate Basketball (tied with the San Beda Red Lions) | ||
College Basketball Awards | Seniors Player of the Year | |||
Mythical Team | ||||
Unigames Awarding Ceremony | Most Valuable Player | |||
Mythical Team | ||||
UAAP Season 77 Awarding Ceremony | Seniors Most Valuable Player | |||
Seniors Mythical Team | ||||
Fast Fizz Player of the Season | ||||
Jollibee Champ of the Season | ||||
Master Gameface Player of the Season | ||||
RCBC Savings Bank Life Changing Player of the Season | ||||
PS Bankable Player of the Season | ||||
2013 | Filoil Flying V Cup Awarding Ceremony | Seniors Most Valuable Player | ||
Seniors Mythical Team | ||||
Ateneo Athletes' Night Awards | Ateneo X Factor of the Year | |||
PSA Annual Awards | PSA Sportsman of the Year (with the Ateneo Blue Eagles) | |||
2012 | Shorty Awards | Best Basketball in Social Media | ||
Rappler Social Media Awards | Best Pinoy Athlete | |||
The Samsung Sixth Man Awards | People's Choice Most Valuable Player | |||
People's Choice Mythical Team | ||||
College Basketball Awards | Most Valuable Player | |||
Mythical Five | ||||
PCCL Awarding Ceremony | Most Valuable Player | |||
Mythical Team | ||||
UAAP Season 75 Awarding Ceremony | Enervon Todo Bigay Player of the Year | |||
Meg's Movers and Shakers | Meg Magazine's 30 under 30: Movers and Shakers | |||
FilOil Flying V Cup Awarding Ceremony | Seniors Most Valuable Player | |||
Seniors Mythical Team | ||||
2011 | PSA Annual Awards | Tony Siddayao Awardee | ||
College Basketball Awards | Most Valuable Player | |||
Mythical Team | ||||
UAAP Season 74 Awarding Ceremony | Seniors Most Valuable Player | |||
Seniors Mythical Team | ||||
Seniors Rookie of the Year | ||||
FilOil Flying V Cup Awarding Ceremony | Seniors Most Valuable Player | |||
Seniors Mythical Team | ||||
2010 | College Basketball Awards | Juniors Player of the Year (tied with Baser Amer) | ||
Ateneo Athletes' Night Awards | Ateneo High School Most Outstanding Athlete for Basketball | |||
FIBA Asia U-18 Championship Awarding Ceremony | Most Valuable Player | |||
Mythical Team | ||||
Best Forward | ||||
UAAP Season 73 Awarding Ceremony | Juniors Finals Most Valuable Player | |||
Juniors Most Valuable Player | ||||
Juniors Mythical Team | ||||
2009 | UAAP Season 72 Awarding Ceremony | Juniors Finals Most Valuable Player | ||
Juniors Most Valuable Player | ||||
Juniors Mythical Team | ||||
2007 | UAAP Season 70 Awarding Ceremony | Juniors Rookie of the Year | ||
2005 | PBA Juniors Basketball League Awarding Ceremony | Most Valuable Player | ||
Mythical Team |
2012 | Candy Awards | Candy Cutie | ||
Meg Top Choice Awards | Top Youth Icon for Male | |||
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