This section contains upcoming news and information for Creekside High School spring sports
Tryout Information:
Monday Jan. 25th – Wednesday Jan. 27th – Practice starts Thursday Jan. 28th.
Creekside HS Practice Fields
Monday & Tuesday – 4:10 pm – 6:10 pm
Wednesday – Time TBD
Email Coach Alford @ [email protected] for a tryout packet.
Items in the packet must be completed before tryouts.
Tryouts will take place for 3 days beginning on Monday, January 18th. Please arrive dressed in proper attire with your softball equipment.
1/18: 2:00 – 4:30 pm
1/19: 4:15 – 6:30 pm
1/20: 4:15 – 6:30 pm
We are mindful that students are being quarantined on a daily basis. If this is the case for a potential athlete, we will most certainly provide a flexible plan for them to tryout during these challenging times.
Anyone trying out for Softball must successfully complete and upload their Athlete Registration and Physical prior to taking the field. Directions and forms can be found via the links above on this page
Tennis tryouts will start are on Monday January 18th at 2:30pm-4:30pm.
Tuesday 4:15pm-6:30pm
Wednesday 2:30pm-4:30pm
Thursday and Friday 4:15pm-6:30pm
Creekside High School Athletics is excited to announce that Patrick Diegan has been hired as the Knights’ head boys tennis coach.
Coach Diegan is a British LTA and PTR Professional with over 34 years of teaching and international playing experience. He is the author of the bestselling four-book series, “Coaching and Learning Tennis Basics.” Coach Diegan has coached in the United Kingdom, Spain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and the United States and his extensive playing experience includes professional and amateur events in the UK, France, Croatia, UAE, Oman, and the USA. Coach Diegan has played and won events on all surfaces, including outdoor hard, grass, indoor hard and carpet, indoor and outdoor red clay, and “Hartru” green clay.
With his extensive coaching experience, Coach Diegan’s philosophy is to establish good fundamentals as quickly as possible, then allowing his students to express themselves with their own interpretation of stroke production and style of play.
The Track and Field meet at Creekside High School this past Friday was a resounding success. View the results of the event!
Creekside senior Mitchell Fairgrieve is the 2019 St. Johns County Baseball Player of the Year after posting an 11-0 record with a 0.94 ERA for the Knights.
Creekside junior Mallorie Sykes is the 2019 St. Johns County Player of the Year after leading county pitchers with 22 wins.
REGION 1-7A
Triple-doubles aren’t just for basketball anymore, and Creekside is glad.
With three doubles in a breakthrough sixth inning, Creekside rallied past Pensacola Pine Forest to win Wednesday’s regional final 8-4 and earn the school’s third state semifinal berth in the last five years.
The Knights (23-6) struck for four runs on doubles from Daniel Cantu, Jacob Topping and finally Bryce Brindle, the last a two-run game-breaker that changed a 4-1 deficit into a one-run lead.
Creekside piled on insurance runs in the seventh on a Connor Hults triple and another Brindle base hit. Josh Emerson came in for the save after Pine Forest got its first two hitters aboard in the bottom of the seventh.
Pine Forest had taken an early lead on Keith Robbins’ two-RBI double in the first.Creekside will play its state semifinal at 4 p.m. May 31 against Venice in Fort Myers.
Creekside (24-4) will face Fort Myers (26-4) in Thursday’s FHSAA Class 7A state semifinal. The Knights enter the contest having won 19 of their previous 20 games.
Creekside (22-5) will try to end Pensacola Pine Forest’s 10-game winning streak in Wednesday’s Region 1-7A final.