Ceith Creekmur Last College: Miami '06 Position: Assistant Coach Years at Miami: Second Season

Ceith Creekmur
Assistant Cross Country/Men's Track and Field Coach
Phone: 513-529-8043
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Former RedHawk standout Ceith Creekmur enters his second season as an assistant coach at Miami after wrapping up his four-year 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.

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 Mitchell Reynolds, who placed eighth in the decathlon. Numerous athletes also set new career-best performances under Creekmur's tutelage, including thrower Dan Beach, who moved to eighth on the Miami all-time top 10 list in the hammer throw (181-0).

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 all-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, Creekmur registered the seventh-best decathlon score in program history at the SeaRay Relays, tallying 6,899 points. Creekmur 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.

CREEKMUR AS AN UNDERGRAD:

2005-06: Versatile athlete who competed in three decathlons ... registered a career-best point total in the decathlon (6,899) at the SeaRay Relays ... score ranks as the seventh-best tally in program history ... scored at the MAC Championships for the third consecutive season, placing eighth in the pole vault (14-1 1/4) ... also notched a scoring finish in the decathlon with a fourth-place point total (6,177) ... won the javelin and high jump events in the decathlon at the conference meet ... also set season-best marks in the javelin (170-7), shot put (40-9), high jump (6-6 1/4), 1,500 meters (4:51.96) and 400 meters (51.74) at the MAC meet ... narrowly missed scoring in the high jump with 10th-place height (6-4 3/4) and a 12th-place leap (21-1 1/2) in the long jump ... competed in the heptathlon at the US Indoor Nationals, finishing eighth in the 11-athlete field with 5,040 points.

2004-05: MAC Track Athlete of the Week (3/22) ... All-MAC Second Team ... won the decathlon at the Florida State Invitational with 6,478 points by taking five of the 10 events, earning MAC weekly honors ... indoors, won the long jump at the Denison meet with a 21-10 1/2 leap ... won the event again at the Southern Ohio Cup outdoors, jumping 22-8 ... earned a silver medal in the decathlon at the MAC Championships with a career-high 6,893 points ... also set a career-best time in the 110 hurdles during the decathlon, finishing in 15.54 seconds, and won the high jump portion with a 6-6 1/4 leap.

2003-04: Scored in the decathlon at the 2004 MAC Championships, finishing eighth and winning the high jump portion of the competition with a leap of 6-4 3/4 ... at the Southern Ohio Cup, finished ninth in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.75, and leaped 6-8 3/4 in the high jump at the Miami Invitational, both collegiate-bests.

2002-03: Finished in second at the Southern Ohio Cup with a personal-best mark of 6-8 ... placed fifth at the Miami Invitational and sixth at the Wake Forest Invitational ... finished ninth at the MAC Championships.