2 - Creighton University Bluejays

Jenny Vickers
Jenny Vickers
Assistant Coach / Seventh Season / Creighton, 2003
Vickers’ Coaching Resume
Creighton Assistant Coach, 2006-present
Creighton Graduate Manager, 2004-06
Bellevue (Neb.) West High School Asst. Coach, 2003-04
Jenny Vickers returns for her seventh season on the Creighton
women’s basketball staff and her fifth as an assistant coach,
after serving as the graduate manager for two seasons.
Vickers is responsible for coordinating camps, marketing the
team and community service, along with her on-court duties
working with the wing players.
“Jenny is bright, talented and organized,” said head coach
Jim Flanery. “She cares a lot about our players and shows that
in many ways. Jenny also has a tremendous appreciation for
Creighton, and she recruits and coaches with that affection on
her sleeve. She’s very dependable and loyal too.”
Her coaching of forwards Megan Neuvirth and Sam Schuett
helped the duo to impressive freshman campaigns in 2006-07.
Neuvirth led the team and Missouri Valley Conference in steals,
topped the team in rebounding and earned league Newcomer of
the Year honors, while Schuett led the Jays in three-point shooting
and earned MVC All-Freshman Team recognition. Neuvirth,
the 2008-09 MVC Defensive Player of the Year, had an outstanding
career, finishing with more than 1,200 points and a
school-record 929 career rebounds. Both Neuvirth and Schuett
earned first-team all-conference honors in 2009-10.
The former Jenny Burns was a forward for the Bluejays from
1999 through 2003. Prior to returning to the Bluejay bench,
Vickers spent the 2003-04 season as an intern in the Creighton
athletics department working with both marketing and ticketing.
She also spent a semester each as a student teacher and a substitute
teacher in the Bellevue, Neb., school district.
While working at Bellevue West High School, Vickers
coached the girl’s junior varsity basketball team. She has also
coached with the Crusaders summer basketball program in the
Omaha area.
The Minnetonka, Minn., native was a starter on Creighton’s
back-to-back Missouri Valley Conference regular-season championship
teams in 2001-02 and 2002-03. She was a major contributor
to Creighton’s 2002 NCAA Tournament team and 2003
WNIT Final Four squad.
Vickers was twice named to the MVC scholar-athlete firstteam
and earned CoSIDA Academic All-District VII Second-Team
accolades as a senior while graduating with a 3.96 grade point
average. She led the Jays in blocked shots as a senior and finished
her career ranked in the top-10 in Creighton career blocked
shots. Despite battling injuries during her first two seasons, she
ranked eighth in games played when she finished her career.
Vickers earned bachelor of arts degrees in history and secondary
education in December 2003.
She and her husband, Steve, reside in Omaha and have one
son, Connor, who was born March 26, 2010.
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