Three-time National Coach of the Year Kirsten Bernthal-Booth has coached 17 season at Creighton, one of the nation’s fastest-rising volleyball programs. Since inheriting a 3-23 team in 2002, Booth has steadily built a program that has appeared in the AVCA’s Top 25 poll each of the last six years, and reached seven of the last eight NCAA Tournaments. That includes a 2016 run to the Elite Eight, which followed a 2015 Sweet Sixteen appearance. She was also a standout athlete at Lincoln East and later at Truman State University. 

Kamryn Willman is a senior at Grand Island Central Catholic. She was a four-year varsity player in volleyball & helped lead the Crusaders to the Class C-1 state final her junior season. Kamryn, however, has been dealt some bad cards over the past couple years, but it hasn't stopped her from being a great teammate and leader and has made her appreciate her high school career even more.

Tony Chapman is co-founder and a contributor for Striv Sports, a sports writer for the Grand Island Independent and all-around fanatic/historian of high school sports in Nebraska.