Head swimming coach, Dr. Rick Creed, has been coaching high school swimming for 29 years. Before teaching and coaching at Mill Creek, Coach Creed had also coached at Parkview High School for 13 years. Coach Creed has earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from Georgia State University and received his National Board Certification in Adolescence/Young Adult Mathematics. Coach Creed started his high school teaching career in 1981. He taught mathematics and coached swimming, football, and baseball from 1981-1984 at Redan High School and from 1986-1991 at Stone Mountain High School. From 1984-1986 he attended the University of Montana where he earned his Masters Degree in Mathematics Education. In Montana, he was a graduate assistant in the University of Montana's Mathematics Department. He also found time to coach both USA and high school swimming during his stay in Missoula, Montana. He went to high school at Towers High in DeKalb County, where he held the school record in the 100 breaststroke. He continued to be a standout swimmer at Georgia State, where he held the school record in the 200 breaststroke. He served one year as an assistant coach at GSU after graduation. He was named captain of his college team his junior year. Coach Creed is a former President of the Georgia High School Swim Coaches' Association and was the 2002 Parkview and Gwinnett County Teacher-of-the-Year. Coach Creed was also named the 2002 National High School Boys Swimming Coach of the Year.
His and his teams' honors include:
- Boys State Champs 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003
- Girls State Champs 1997 and 1998
- Boys Gwinnett County Champs - 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003
- Girls Gwinnett County Champs 1997, 1998, 2003, 2009, and 2014
- National High School Boys Coach of the Year 2002
- Georgia Coach of the Year 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2009
- Gwinnett Coach of the Year 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2008, and 2009
Heidi Creed is a retired Gwinnett County teacher. She swam for Ohio University and Southern Connecticut University. Heidi both coached and trained under Olympic and Hall of Fame Coach Frank Keefe with the Yale Bulldog Swim Club in CT. While attending Ohio University, she coached the USA swimming club team where she coached a swimmer to a national age-group record in backstroke. She also coached national select camps with Coach Frank Keefe at Yale University. After graduating from Ohio University with a BFA in Graphic Design and Illustration, she became the head coach of the Missoula Aquatic Club Team in Missoula, Montana. In two years, she led the team to two state USA swimming championships. She also coached high school swimming in Missoula. When she moved to Atlanta, she took on a position with Swim Atlanta helping to build the program in Lilburn. She then became the head age-group coach for Dynamo at Mountain Park and coached athletes that went on to the Olympic Trials and competed for Stanford, UVA, Williams College, Middlebury College, and Kenyon to name a few. She has also coached age-groups at Swim Atlanta at Sugarloaf.
Heidi and Rick have coached summer league swimming together since 1986. The two of them coached at Rivercliff for 9 years before starting at team at Eastside Athletic Club. After 9 years at Eastside, they started the team at Chateau Elan where they have been for 20 years. Along with coaching, Heidi taught Art at Kingsley Elementary, St. John Neumann School, Arcado Elementary, and Jones Middle School for over 25 years.
They have two daughters, Marlie and Sommers, who are both swimmers, of course! Marlie graduated from Georgia Tech with a Masters degree in Economics and Sommers graduated from University of Georgia with a BA in Graphic Design and a Masters in Motion Media from SCAD.
