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Ceith Creekmur
Assistant Cross Country/Men's Track and Field Coach
Phone: 513-529-8043
Email Coach Creekmur
Former RedHawk standout Ceith Creekmur enters his fourth season as an assistant coach at his alma mater, after completing a four-year track and field career in Oxford. An All-Mid-American Conference decathlete and three-time conference-point scorer, Creekmur handles the throws, pole vault and multi-events for the Red and White.
Creekmur helped guide Kevin Dwyer to the NCAA Championships each of the last two years, as Dwyer claimed 13th in the decathlon in 2009, one place shy of All-America status, and finished 19th in 2008. At the 2009 MAC Championships, seven of Creekmur's athletes scored for the RedHawks.
In his first season as an assistant, Creekmur helped three athletes score at the 2007 MAC meet, most notably Jake Kuhner, who placed fourth in vault and eighth in javelin. Creekmur's two additional scoring athletes were Bryan Ferres, who finished fourth in the javelin and Mitch Reynolds, who placed eighth in the decathlon.
Numerous athletes have also set new career-best performances under Creekmur's tutelage, including thrower Dan Beach, who moved to third on the Miami all-time top-10 list in the hammer throw (194-8) and Rob Prechtl, who ranks seventh all-time in the javelin (194-3). A pair of decathletes have also cracked the top-10 under Creekmur's watch, with Dwyer ranking second (7,453) and Michael McCarty 10th (6,780), while Creekmur himself sits eighth all-time (6,899).
Familiar with both the Miami program and the MAC, Creekmur was a four-year letterwinner with the RedHawks (2003-06) and finished in the top eight in the decathlon in each of his final three seasons, including a MAC runner-up finish as a junior. A Second-Team Sll-MAC honoree in 2005, Creekmur also earned MAC Track Athlete of the Week honors on March 22, 2005, after winning the decathlon at the Florida State Invitational.
In his final season in Oxford, Creekmur put the finishing touches on an impressive college career, turning in an eighth-place heptathlon finish at the U.S. Indoor Nationals and a fourth-place decathlon finish at the MAC Championships. In addition to Creekmur's decathlon mark, he also left Miami as the school record holder in the heptathlon with 5,399 points.
A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist All-America honoree as a senior, Creekmur graduated from Miami in May 2006 with a bachelor's degree in exercise science. He is currently enrolled in the master's program at Miami in exercise science. Creekmur has earned his Level I certification in the USA Track and Field coaching program.
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