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Crocker leaving Middle Creek for Panther Creek

Panther Creek vs. Middle Creek (Oct. 22, 2010)

Middle Creek's head coach Sean Crocker gives QB Garrett Leatham the play as Middle Creek defeats Panther Creek 42-21.

Published: 2012-01-11 15:06:00
Updated: 2012-01-11 15:14:16

Jan 11, 2012

The coaching carousel in the Tri-Nine Conference continues.

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Panther Creek announced on Wednesday that Sean Crocker will leave Middle Creek to become the Catamounts' third head football coach. A press conference is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at Panther Creek High School.

Crocker succeeds Wayne Bragg who left Panther Creek last month to become the athletic director at Green Hope.

For the past seven seasons, Crocker has been on the sidelines at Middle Creek. He has been the head coach for the last five season. Under Crocker, Middle Creek posted a 43-23 record, including a 10-4 mark last season.

In 2009, Middle Creek won a school record 12 games, advancing to the third round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4-A state playoffs where it fell to eventual state runner-up Harnett Central.

Crocker, from Wakefield, Va., played college football at the University of the North Carolina. He has also served as an assistant coach at Cary and Chapel Hill.

Panther Creek posted an 8-4 record last season, one year after going 13-2 and advancing to the NCHSAA 4-AA Eastern Regional Final.

Copyright 2012 by Capitol Broadcasting Company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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to work for that principal...oh ok leaving middle creek gotcha
ntheweeds
January 12, 2012 8:59 a.m.
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Impressive! --http://www.ihigh.com/panthercreek/video_903340.html
CaliKid
January 11, 2012 10:45 p.m.
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Panther Creek is likely to leave the tri 9 conference during the next alignment. The conference will be even easier now for Fuquay.
efresh81
January 11, 2012 9:41 p.m.
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He made it clear in the press conference. PC is much closer to home and thus family than MC. Done deal.
durhamfbfan
January 11, 2012 7:21 p.m.
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There are many, many reasons he may have chosen to move.
cantbustem
January 11, 2012 4:49 p.m.
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Interesting. Hopefully they have questions at the press conference. One of those questions 'should' be, 'Why leave a program equivalent or in many folks eyes above that of the Catamount program? Moreover, both schools are in Wake county - I would imagine based on that the finances are the same. Middle Creek appears to have a very strong support network as does Panther Creek. Long and short of it - I see a lot of equivalency at these two schools from the outside looking in. Good for PC and tough for MC.
durhamfbfan
January 11, 2012 3:12 p.m.
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