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Sara Cain is back on the<br />

<strong>Creighton</strong> bench for her<br />

second season as the graduate<br />

manager. The former Bluejay<br />

captain is involved with film<br />

exchange and camps as part of<br />

the Bluejay staff.<br />

A two-year starter for the<br />

<strong>Bluejays</strong>, Cain started 64 of the<br />

121 games she played in from<br />

2004-08. The forward concluded her career ranked fifth in school<br />

history in games played and eighth with a 75.9 career free-throw<br />

percentage.<br />

The Walford, Iowa, native was a McDonald’s All-American<br />

nominee at Cedar Rapids Prairie High School before attending<br />

<strong>Creighton</strong>. Cain had a breakout junior campaign with the Jays,<br />

leading the team with 10.6 points per game, scoring more points<br />

as a junior than her first two seasons combined. She concluded<br />

her junior season with a career-high 24 points in the Missouri<br />

Valley Conference Tournament championship game and earned<br />

MVC All-Tournament Team honors for her play in the event.<br />

Women’s Basketball Support Staff<br />

Sara Cain<br />

Graduate Manager / Second Season / <strong>Creighton</strong>, 2008<br />

As a senior, she topped the team with 19 double-figure scoring<br />

games for the second straight season, finishing with 10.5<br />

points and a career-best 5.5 rebounds per game to earn secondteam<br />

all-MVC honors. She was a two-time MVC Scholar-Athlete<br />

Second-Team selection, and was named to the Division I-AAA<br />

Athletics Directors Association Scholar-Athlete Team and the<br />

ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District VII Second-<br />

Team as a senior. A dean’s list honoree all four years, she finished<br />

her career with 894 points and 483 rebounds.<br />

Cain’s older twin brothers, Nathan and Brett, were also collegiate<br />

athletes, playing football at Nebraska-Omaha and basketball<br />

at Wayne State (Neb.), respectively, while younger sister<br />

Lindsey is a junior basketball player at Northern Iowa.<br />

Cain earned her undergraduate degree in exercise science<br />

with a minor in biology from <strong>Creighton</strong> in 2008. She is currently<br />

working on her master’s degree in biomedical sciences, with<br />

plans to attend medical school upon completing her graduate<br />

studies.<br />

Women’s Basketball Support Staff<br />

Dan Bailey<br />

Head Strength and<br />

Conditioning Coach<br />

Margaret Bennett<br />

Administrative Assistant<br />

Lisa Chipps<br />

Academic Support<br />

Brandy Ingles<br />

Compliance<br />

Carol Ketcham<br />

Senior Woman Administrator<br />

Brandon McCarville<br />

Facilities<br />

Alison Mosel<br />

Assistant Athletic Trainer<br />

Women’s Basketball<br />

Rob Simms<br />

Associate SID<br />

Women’s Basketball Contact<br />

Mike West<br />

Associate Athletics Director<br />

WBB Administrator<br />

Teddy Young<br />

Ticketing<br />

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