“It’s been good to do some reflecting the last couple of days as I’ve prepared for this moment and try to get through it,” said right before starting with her farewell speech. Yet all the preparation in the world couldn’t help coach Kirsten Bernthal Booth choking up. And how could it? After 22 years at Creighton Volleyball, a head coach took the program from 3-23 in 2003 to 32-3 in 2024.
Yet, that same emotion was absent in the words of Creighton’s athletic director, Marcus Blossom. The AD’s speech recounting Booth’s immense contribution to the program was so generic, that it stood out to those who tuned in to the farewell press conference. The hint of awkwardness was so noticeable that legendary Huskers coach Terry Pettitt couldn’t help but express his observations.
While Pettitt admitted he didn’t know Marcus Blossom, the 79-year-old doubted if the AD “knew Kristen,” either. “Blossom continually referred to her as ‘Booth.’ He never made eye contact, and everything he said sounded like it had been taken from a media guide,” wrote the national championship-winning coach. All this, and the “data” Blossom read off a sheet, made his account of the Creighton volleyball coach sound even more impersonal to Pettitt.
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