Jaybackers Organization

The Jaybackers Organization strengthens and promotes broad-based support for intercollegiate athletics at Creighton University by serving as ambassadors and providing funding to offset the increasing costs of competing at the Division I level.

Through the years, the Jaybackers Organization has touched the lives of many CU student-athletes – young women and men who have worked to balance academic excellence with superior sports performance. Many have gone on to represent Creighton University in professional sports, many more have earned a college degree and the means to pursue successful careers, and all have grown from their association with the CU athletics program.

The long-range goal of the Jaybackers Organization is to raise 100 percent of the money needed to fund Creighton University’s athletic scholarships on an annual basis. Creighton’s annual scholarship bill for student-athletes currently stands at over $4 million – and gifts to the Jaybackers Organization currently pay only a fraction of that bill.

Jaybackers Organization funding helps supplement many areas of the Athletics budget which ensures the furture growth and success of all Creighton University athletics programs which currently include eight women’s sports (basketball, crew, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball) and six men’s sports (baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer and tennis).

Over 2,700 families and businesses joined Jaybackers for the 2009-10 academic year and gifts to the organization totalled over $3.3 million, both all-time highs for the 13th consecutive year. In the last 14 years, the Jaybacker Organization has more than quadrupled in members while gifts have increased from $376,000 in 1996-97 to over $3.3 million in 2009-10.

For more information about joining Jaybackers, contact Assistant Director of Athletics for External Operations Kevin Sarver (402-280-5810, ksarver@creighton.edu); Director of Ticket Sales Operations Adrian Rider (402-280-3371, adrianrider@creighton.edu) or Assistant Director of Ticket Sales Operations Teddy Young (402-280-5716, theardisyoung@creighton.edu).