Thriving Sports

Enthusiasm- Offensive Footwork- Skill Development

Team Spirit-Maintaining a Successful program/While cooperating with championship level football program

Initiative- Team Early Offense Push & Actions

Kirsten Bernthal Booth is the head volleyball coach at Creighton University. Booth owns an impressive past, both on and off the court. Creighton has posted a record of 441-184 and averaged 1,456 fans per home match in Booth’s tenure. All 20 of Booth’s teams have qualified for the conference tournament, with nine of her last 11 teams winning the event. Join us now for a discussion with Kirsten about team spirit, work ethic, and enthusiasm in team sports.

Tom Osborne is a former American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and politician from Nebraska. He served as head football coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1973 to 1997 (25 seasons). After being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999, Osborne was elected to Congress in 2000 from Nebraska's third district as a Republican. He served three terms (2001–2007), returned to the University of Nebraska as athletic director in 2007, and retired in 2013.

Josh Luedtke is the head basketball coach at Creighton Prep. Listen in as we have a discussion about coaching and focus in on the topic of team spirit.

Join us as we have a discussion with former Creighton Athletic Director, Bruce Rasmussen about how coaches can develop alertness in their players and team. Rasmussen served as Creighton's Director of Athletics from Aug. 1, 1994 to Aug. 16, 2021. In his 27 years as athletics director, Creighton rose to national prominence with its success inside and outside the lines of athletic competition. The Bluejays won 43 regular-season conference titles and 43 conference tournament titles, graduated outstanding young women and men, built new facilities for nearly every sports program, and celebrated record-breaking fundraising campaigns. Rasmussen fostered Creighton's success in the Missouri Valley Conference, and he played a major role in Creighton's entrance into the BIG EAST Conference in March 2013.

In this introduction episode, we explore the vision and the purpose of Thriving Sports.