Staff Directory
- Title:
- McCormick Endowed Athletic Director
- Email:
- Phone:
- (402) 280-1795
   Marcus Blossom starts his fifth year as McCormick Endowed Athletic Director at Creighton in 2025-26.
   Creighton has enjoyed historic levels of success in Blossom’s first four years on the job, as Bluejay teams have made 18 postseason appearances, won six conference tournament titles, five regular-season titles and had 78 First Team All-Conference selections to go with eight Conference Coach of the Year accolades. The Bluejays have had 11 College Sports Communicators Academic All-Americans during Blossom’s tenure.
   Among Creighton’s most prominent student-athletes in his reign have been 2022 MAC Hermann Trophy Award winner and 2024 Olympian Duncan McGuire, NBA Draft picks Ryan Kalkbrenner and Baylor Scheierman, USA Basketball 3x3 MVP Morgan Maly and First Team All-American Kendra Wait.
   Creighton is the nation’s only school to reach the Elite Eight in men’s soccer, volleyball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball in the last four years. Creighton and UCLA are also the nation’s only schools to reach the Sweet 16 at least once in men’s soccer, women’s volleyball, men’s basketball and women’s basketball in the past four years.
   The work performed by Bluejay student-athletes in the classroom also featured excellence across the board. The men’s track program owned the nation’s best GPA in 2023-24 and 2024-25. CU has had 16 programs recognized by the BIG EAST with Team Academic Excellence Awards. CU student-athletes owned a 3.51 GPA in the spring of 2025.
   As athletic director at Holy Cross, Blossom led the development of the athletics department’s first strategic plan, with a focus on creating a high-performance culture, achieving and sustaining competitive excellence, and increasing ticket sales, external support and community engagement, while also enhancing facilities.
   Under his leadership, academic success within the Holy Cross athletics program was among the very best in the nation, ranking first for graduation success rate, with the school receiving more than a dozen Division I Academic Progress Rate public recognition awards from the NCAA. Several teams at Holy Cross posted multi-year APR scores in the top 10% of all squads in their respective sports.
   Prior to his time at Holy Cross, Blossom spent five years at Boston College as senior associate athletics director for business and administration. While there, he was a member of the executive team and assisted with all aspects of strategic planning and vision execution for the department of athletics.
   Blossom has a deep background with Jesuit higher education, and he is no stranger to the BIG EAST, having spent two years with Providence College as associate athletic director for business operations. Earlier in his career, he also served as assistant director of championships for the NCAA, managing the complex process of championship host-city selection, among other duties.
    Blossom, who is from Chicago and has strong Midwestern ties, earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in finance at Northeastern University, a Master’s Degree in Sport Management from West Virginia University and an MBA from the University of Rhode Island. While earning his undergraduate degree at Northeastern University, Blossom was a three-time GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-District and three-time all-conference selection in men’s basketball.
   Blossom and his wife, Karli, have two daughters, Maya and Mora.
