Loyd Star’s Creel is The Daily Leader’s Defensive Player of the Week
Published 2:00 pm Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- FILE PHOTO Cooper Creel
Defensive Player of the Week
Cooper Creel, Loyd Star
Defensive Back, Sophomore
In a defensive slugfest that was won 19-12 by visiting Loyd Star (6-1) at Amite County on Friday, sophomore safety Cooper Creel made some huge plays for the Hornet defense.
Creel had a second half interception in a game where every possession mattered. He also made two tackles and broke up one pass for coach Adam Smith. One of those tackles came on a third-and-long when Amite County was trying to convert late and put together another scoring drive. Creel’s stop put them short of the line to reach and on fourth down, the Trojans failed to convert.
Also a cross-country runner, baseball player and forward in soccer, Creel comes from a family of athletes. His father Jamie coached baseball at Vicksburg High and his mother EJ was the first female coach to lead a boys’ basketball team to a state title when she did so at Porter’s Chapel Academy in 2013. EJ Creel played at PCA, where she scored over 3,000 points in her high school career.