Creighton Athletics Hall of Fame
Rasmussen, Bruce
Bruce Rasmussen
- Induction:
- 2025
**will be inducted October 16, 2025**
It’s hard to imagine where Creighton University and its athletic programs would be without the considerable impact that Bruce Rasmussen made on The Hilltop from 1980-2021.
In 27 years with Rasmussen as athletic director (1994-2021), Creighton won a combined 86 regular-season and conference tournament titles and made 90 postseason appearances while also making a transformational move to the BIG EAST in 2013. In addition to graduating outstanding student-athletes and record-breaking fundraising initiatives, Rasmussen helped oversee the construction of five new facilities that now make up much of Creighton’s East campus athletic corridor.
The Webster City, Iowa, native also had a knack when it came to identifying and hiring talented head coaches, including the winningest coaches in school history in men’s basketball (Dana Altman, and then Greg McDermott), women’s basketball (Jim Flanery), volleyball (Kirsten Bernthal Booth), baseball (Ed Servais), tennis (Tom Lilly), women’s soccer (Bruce Erickson) and men’s soccer (Bret Simon, and then Bob Warming).
Rasmussen became Division I’s first four-time recipient of the Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year Award (2004, 2010, 2015, 2019). He received the 2019 Gary Cunningham Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division I-AAA Athletic Directors Association, and in 2022 was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame.
Rasmussen spent five years on the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Selection Committee, serving as its chairman in his final year in 2018, and was a member of the College World Series of Omaha Inc., Executive Committee, which helped select the downtown location for Charles Schwab Field Omaha and kept the Greatest Show on Dirt in Omaha.
Hired as Creighton’s women’s basketball head coach in 1980, Rasmussen went 196-147 in a dozen years at the helm. His final squad went 28-4 and was the first in program history to play in the NCAA Tournament. He then spent the next two years as Associate Athletic Director before his promotion to Athletic Director.
Rasmussen and his wife, Jill, reside in Omaha and have five children.
It’s hard to imagine where Creighton University and its athletic programs would be without the considerable impact that Bruce Rasmussen made on The Hilltop from 1980-2021.
In 27 years with Rasmussen as athletic director (1994-2021), Creighton won a combined 86 regular-season and conference tournament titles and made 90 postseason appearances while also making a transformational move to the BIG EAST in 2013. In addition to graduating outstanding student-athletes and record-breaking fundraising initiatives, Rasmussen helped oversee the construction of five new facilities that now make up much of Creighton’s East campus athletic corridor.
The Webster City, Iowa, native also had a knack when it came to identifying and hiring talented head coaches, including the winningest coaches in school history in men’s basketball (Dana Altman, and then Greg McDermott), women’s basketball (Jim Flanery), volleyball (Kirsten Bernthal Booth), baseball (Ed Servais), tennis (Tom Lilly), women’s soccer (Bruce Erickson) and men’s soccer (Bret Simon, and then Bob Warming).
Rasmussen became Division I’s first four-time recipient of the Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year Award (2004, 2010, 2015, 2019). He received the 2019 Gary Cunningham Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division I-AAA Athletic Directors Association, and in 2022 was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame.
Rasmussen spent five years on the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Selection Committee, serving as its chairman in his final year in 2018, and was a member of the College World Series of Omaha Inc., Executive Committee, which helped select the downtown location for Charles Schwab Field Omaha and kept the Greatest Show on Dirt in Omaha.
Hired as Creighton’s women’s basketball head coach in 1980, Rasmussen went 196-147 in a dozen years at the helm. His final squad went 28-4 and was the first in program history to play in the NCAA Tournament. He then spent the next two years as Associate Athletic Director before his promotion to Athletic Director.
Rasmussen and his wife, Jill, reside in Omaha and have five children.
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