Creighton Bluejays, Creighton University
Conference: Missouri Valley Conference
Location: Omaha, NE
Head Coach: Brent Vigness
Home Stadium: Kitty Gaughan Pavilion
Mascot: Billy Bluejay
Nickname: Bluejays
Fight Song: The White and the Blue
Colors: Blue and White
The Creighton Bluejays softball team represents Creighton University softball. The team participates in the Missouri Valley Conference. They are currently coached by Brent Vigness and play their home games at the Kitty Gaughan Pavilion.
The architect of the most successful softball program in the Missouri Valley Conference over the last decade is Brent Vigness. Now in his 16th season at the helm of one of the Midwest’s finest programs, he has guided the Bluejays to five MVC regular-season titles (1998-2000, 2007-08), five MVC tournament titles (1999, 2003-05, 2007), six NCAA regional appearances (1999, 2003-05, 2007-08) and a place on the national scene, earning top 25 notice in recent years.
The Creighton softball team has captured more combined MVC regular-season and tournament titles since 1998 than any softball program in the conference with 10 titles in that span. In both 2007 and 2008, Vigness led his teams to the MVC regular-season championship, while leading the MVC Coaching Staff of the Year in both seasons. The longest tenured head coach in the Creighton athletic department, Vigness is among the top-40 active coaches in NCAA Division I softball with the most wins. Under the leadership of Vigness, over the past 11 seasons Creighton’s winning percentage in conference play is an impressive .690.
2009 was another banner season for the Creighton Bluejays, however, despite a 35-16 overall record, a third straight Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title at 19-6 and an appearance in the MVC Tournament title game, the Bluejays were left out of the field for NCAA tournament for just the second time in the last seven years.
The Bluejays return all but two starters in 2010, as they will look to make MVC history by winning their fourth straight regular-season title. Included in the returners is 2009 MVC Player of the Year Renae Sinkler, who led the league in home runs, slugging percentage, on-base percentage and walks as a junior this spring. First-team all-MVC second baseman Michelle Koch will also return as part of a seven-member senior class.
