Jenny Vickers - Director of Operations - Staff Directory

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Jenny Vickers

Title:
Director of Operations
Email:
Phone:
(402) 280-5782

Jenny Vickers returns for her 21st season on the Creighton women’s basketball staff, including her 12th season as the Director of Basketball Operations. Vickers is another of the trio to play a role in each of Flanery’s seven trips to the NCAA Tournament. Vickers and Carli Berger have both played and coached in an NCAA Tournament game for the Bluejays.

Vickers’ responsibilities include coordinating camps, coordinating travel, marketing the team and setting up community outreach. She also served as an assistant coach for the Bluejays from 2006-13 and was the graduate manager for two seasons (2004-06).

Her impact on the Creighton program has been impressive. Vickers coached forwards Megan Neuvirth and Sam Schuett, helping the duo to impressive freshmen campaigns in 2006-07. Neuvirth led the team and the Missouri Valley Conference in steals, topped the team in rebounding and earned league Newcomer of the Year honors. Schuett, meanwhile, led the Bluejays 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 All-MVC First Team 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. 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 also 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 First Team and earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District VII Second Team accolades as a senior while graduating with a 3.96 grade-point average. She led the Bluejays 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 have three children, Connor, Sam and Walter. The family resides in Omaha.