Chris Creighton

He was the 26th head football coach for the Ottawa University Braves and ranked fourth in school history in total wins and first in winning percentage (.780).

Creighton, who has a life-long interest in mountain climbing, took his seniors on mountain-climbing trips.

Creighton explained that the trips encouraged personal growth: "You're doing something that maybe you didn't think you could do...I just think you grow as a person in those situations."

Steve Ryan, then an assistant coach, carried over the practice of mountain hikes when he became head coach at Morningside College.

Ryan credited the hikes with improving the senior leadership of the team.

Christopher William Creighton (born February 7, 1969) is an American football coach and former player.

Creighton was born on February 7, 1969, and grew up in San Francisco.

He attended his first Oakland Raiders game at the age of eight.

Creighton remained a "diehard" Raiders fan even as his playing and coaching career pulled him east.

His family moved to Seattle, where Creighton attended Roosevelt High School and played quarterback on the football team.

For college, Creighton chose Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he played quarterback from 1988 to 1990.

In 1989 Kenyon won a share of the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) title, Kenyon's first and only conference championship.

In 1990 Creighton's 29 touchdown passes set an NCAC record which stood until 2001 when Wabash College's Jake Knott–playing under Creighton–eclipsed it.

Following graduation in 1991, Creighton became offensive coordinator (OC) at Concordia University Chicago under Jim Braun while working on his master's degree, which he completed in 1993.

In 1993, he played professionally for the Limhamn Griffins, a Swedish club team, and won the Superserien league championship as the team's quarterback.

In 1993, he signed to play professionally for Limhamn Griffins in Sweden's top league Superserien.

As the team's quarterback, Creighton led the Griffins to win the Swedish league championship.

In the spring of 1993, he received an opportunity to play quarterback for Sweden's Limhamn Griffins, where he also served as a coach.

The Griffins won the Superserien championship.

Creighton returned to the United States in the fall of 1993 to become offensive coordinator at Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana, under Dale Liston.

Still in Sweden when the job became available, Creighton applied for it over the phone.

His 48 passing touchdowns over his two years as a starter were also an NCAC record until Kenyon's Brad Hensley surpassed it in 1994.

Creighton spent four seasons at Manchester, continuing under Dave Harms after the latter replaced Liston following the 1994 season.

His offenses set ten new school records during his tenure.

Creighton has served as the head coach at three other schools: Ottawa University (1997–2000), Wabash College (2001–2007), and Drake University (2008–2013).

Creighton played quarterback at Kenyon College where he established several North Coast Athletic Conference records (since broken).

Creighton's first head coaching job was at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, from 1997 to 2000.

Ottawa competed as part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

He succeeded Dave Dallas, who had taken the head coaching job at Kansas Wesleyan University.

In those four seasons, Creighton's teams went 32–9 and won the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championship in 1997 and 2000.

As the head coach at Wabash in the early 2000s, he turned the school into a national contender at the NCAA Division III level.

At Drake, he shared back-to-back Pioneer Football League conference titles.

Creighton holds the unusual distinction of having won football games on three different continents.

Creighton departed Ottawa after the 2000 season to become the head coach at Wabash College, replacing Greg Carlson.

Wabash, like Kenyon and Manchester, competed in NCAA Division III.

Kenyon inducted Creighton into its athletic hall of fame in 2008.

While at Kenyon, Creighton studied abroad in Ecuador, kindling an interest in developing countries.

In 2011, he coached Drake in an exhibition game in the Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium in Arusha, Tanzania, defeating a Mexican all-star team.

In addition, he coached Wabash in exhibition games in Austria and Panama.

He is currently the head coach at Eastern Michigan University, a position he has held since the 2014 season.