Inside the Coaching Mind with Terry Pettit

Kirsten Bernthal Booth is the Head Women's Volleyball Coach at Creighton University, where she has led the Bluejays to ten consecutive Big East championships and numerous Top 25 rankings, while earning three National Coach of the Year titles.

She is also the President of the Board of Directors for the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), helping guide the sport through an ever-changing collegiate sports landscape.

Equally important is Kirsten's coaching philosophy, which is based on values that every parent and athletic administrator should celebrate.

Kirsten joins Terry Pettit to discuss her role with the AVCA and the Bluejays, which could receive a Top-Ten preseason ranking in the upcoming year.

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For four decades as a journalist in Nebraska, Paul Hammel has covered everything from University of Nebraska football and volleyball matches to pie-baking contests, the Legislature, and corruption in private businesses and government.

In reality, Paul is not the last living reporter, but is surely one of the best, as evidenced by his work at the Lincoln Journal Star, the Omaha World-Herald and the Nebraska Examiner. He talks with Terry about his journey as a fact-based reporter.

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Associate Head Coach Jaylen Reyes reveals the secret to Nebraska's consistency in women's volleyball. He talks about his role as recruiting coordinator and what the Cornhuskers look for in potential recruits, beyond the physical requirements.

Jaylen also shares what he learned about coaching from his father, Tino, a men's assistant coach for Mike Wilton at Hawaii and a women's head coach at Hawaii-Hilo. Jaylen was a libero at BYU and was an assistant to Cougars' head coach Shawn Olmsted before coming to Nebraska.

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Troy Dannen was introduced as the University of Nebraska's 17th Director of Athletics on March 26th.

Troy talks with Terry Pettit about the challenges and possible solutions to issues during uncertain times in college athletics. The former AD at Northern Iowa, Tulane and Washington discusses his leadership philosophy and what he believes will replace NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) in the future.

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Merritt Beason is a senior captain for the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team and a returning AVCA First-Team All-American.

The Alabama native joins Terry Pettit to talk about leading with empathy, as well as the changes she is making to become an even stronger player during the upcoming NCAA volleyball season.

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Former Arizona head volleyball coach Dave Rubio joins Cassidy Lichtman, Director of Volleyball for Athletes Unlimited and Cursty Le Roux, assistant volleyball coach at the University of Texas in a discussion with Terry Pettit. In this episode, the group talks about how they leveraged their talent, as well as the talent of the people they played or coached with.

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Three assistant women's volleyball coaches from Creighton, Kansas State and UCLA discuss their roles in recruiting, training and developing players at their successful programs.

Two of the coaches - Angie Oxley and Fiona Nepo - starred at the University of Nebraska, while Stevi Robinson excelled at indoor volleyball at Pepperdine and beach volleyball at USC.

Fiona coached for several years as an assistant at a Hawaii high school before moving on to college coaching at Iowa State and West Virginia. Stevi has coached at The Citadel, Gonzaga and Cal State Bakersfield before recently joining UCLA. Angie has been coaching for 21 years at Creighton with Kirsten Bernthal Booth and has helped lift the Bluejays to national prominence.

Host Terry Pettit joins the conversation, revealing what the average fan may not know about being an assistant coach.

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As a freshman this past season, setter Bergen Reilly helped lead Nebraska Volleyball to a Big Ten title and an appearance in the NCAA Championship Game against Texas.

Former All-American and Huskers' assistant coach Val Novak Warrior joins Reilly and Terry Pettit in a conversation about the setter position and what it takes to play at a supreme level.

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Taryn Kloth, along with partner Kristen Nuss (TNK), is currently ranked 2nd in the world in beach volleyball and will likely represent the U.S. in this year's Paris Summer Olympics.

Their meteoric rise from an unranked team that had trouble getting into professional tournaments, to one that won the Beach Pro Tournament Finals in December, is a story straight out of a Hollywood script.

Taryn talks about her journey from Sioux Falls, Iowa to Omaha, Nebraska, where she became a front-row attacker for Kirsten Bernthal-Booth at Creighton. Her next stop was LSU, playing beach volleyball despite never playing in the back row, and going two seasons without losing a collegiate match.

It is a conversation filled with courage and commitment.

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Jordan Larson has led USA Women's Volleyball to silver, bronze and gold medals in the last three Olympics.

As she prepares to play in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, Jordan also continues in her new role as an assistant coach at her alma mater, the University of Nebraska.

Terry chats with Jordan about balancing the two and much more!

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