Tim Creamer
Tim Creamer

Bio

The 2023-2024 season marks Coach Tim Creamer's third season as Head Track & Field and Cross-Country Coach at Point Park University, his 6th season at Point Park, and his 22nd season overall coaching collegiate Track & Field and Cross-Country. Coach Creamer was named head coach in August of 2021 and works with the high jumpers and pole vaulters on the track and field side.

Over his twenty-two-year career, Coach Creamer has won one Team National Championship, has had one Individual National Champion, one Individual National Runner-Up, 62 national individual qualifiers, 24 All-Americans, 323 All-Conference award winners, and 159 individual conference champions. During Creamer's first three seasons at Point Park as head coach, he has led the Pioneers to a 2021-2022 runner-up finish with the women's cross-country team in the River States Conference Championship and four track and field team River States Conference Championships in 2022. In the 2022-2023 academic year Coach Creamer has led the women's cross-country team to the River States Conference Championship, an appearance at the NAIA cross-country national championships and both his men's and women's teams have won the 2023 River States Indoor Track & Field Team Championships, with the men winning the 2023River States Outdoor Track & Field Team Championship. In the 2023-2024 academic year Coach Creamer has led the men’s marathon team to the 2023 NAIA Men’s Marathon National Team Championship. This was not only the first team national championship in program history but the first team national championship for any University sponsored sport. Both his men’s and women’s teams have won the 2024 River States Indoor Track & Field Team Championships. During his career, Coach Creamer has been a part of 27 team conference championships (19 as a head coach and 8 as an assistant coach) which include 18 team titles at Point Park and 10 as head coach. He has been named conference coach of the year 18 times during his career, including 9 River States Conference Coach of the year honors.

Coach Creamer values education and that is evident where his teams have excelled in the class where he has coached 60 academic All-Americans along with one Elite 89 Academic Award Recipient and one United States Track & Field, Cross-Country Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete of the Year. His teams have also earned multiple United States Track & Field, Cross-Country Coaches Association School Team Awards.

Creamer competed collegiately in track and field at Allegheny College. While at Allegheny, he earned All-Conference honors in track and field for the pole vault and was a part of the first two Indoor Track & Field Team Championships and the first two Outdoor Track & Field Team Championships in school history.

Creamer currently resides in the North Hills of Pittsburgh with his wife Lisa and four children.