Creekview High School (Carrollton, Texas)

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Creekview High School is a secondary school located on in Carrollton, Texas, United States.

Creekview High School
School type	Public
Grade levels	9^th through 12^th
Principal	Cyndi Boyd
Location	Carrollton, Texas, USA
Contact	(972) 968-4800
Enrollment	2177 (as of 2005-2006)
Mascot	Mustang
Colors	Red and Black
Homepage	[1]

The school is a part of the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District. The school's mascot is the Mustang. Creekview High School, which currently serves grades 9 through 12, opened in 1998.

Creekview's One-Act Play team won the 5A State Championship in 2001, the first UIL state championship won by the school. They have attended state competitions in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006. Creekview placed 1st Runner-Up in 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006. Several individual performances were recognized at each state meet, including two Best Actor and four Best Actress awards.

Creekview's speech team is also successful in the competitive spheres of the National Forensics League and the Texas Forensics Association. The school regularly has students place at local, state, and national tournaments. D'Angelo Lacy (Class of 2005) won the National Championship in Dramatic Interpretation in 2004.

The girls' varsity soccer team won the 5A state championship in 2003. The girls' varsity soccer team again attended the state meet, but lost in 2006. The varsity football team made it to the 5A playoffs for the first time in 2001, and again in 2005.

During the years 2001-2005, Salman Mohammed (Class of 2005) became the first person from the Carrollton Farmers Branch Independent School District to win the UT Southwestern STARS Fellowship. He used the grant to conduct research in the field of otolaryngology. Mohammed is now a freshman at Johns Hopkins University studying Vocal Performance at the Peabody Conservatory and Public Health Studies with a concentration in Psychology.

Creekview hosts the school district's Law & Criminal Justice Academy. In 2006, the Mock Trial team attended their first state meet, and won first place. They went on to receive 18th in the country at the national tournament.

On April 29, 2006, Travis Wilson (Class of 2002) became the first Creekview alumnus to be drafted to the National Football League. Wilson was drafted in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns. Wilson attended the University of Oklahoma as a wide receiver.

In June of 2005, Taylor Teagarden (Class of 2002) was drafted in the third round of the Major League Baseball Draft by the Texas Rangers after he won the 2005 College World Series with the University of Texas at Austin. During his junior year in college (2005), Teagarden was a finalist for the Johnny Bench Award (nation's top catcher), First-Team All-Big 12, and later named to the the Big 12 Baseball 10th Anniversary Team. He is a client of Scott Boras and currently plays in the Rangers minor league system. He is the son of current Creekview High School Counselor Penny Teagarden.

Creekview will host the Texas Forensics Association State Tournament from March 1st through 3rd, 2007.

In the 2005 football season the varsity team advanced to the playoffs but lost at the first game against Dallas Carter.

The Creekview Mustang Marching Band's 2006 show is entitled 'Divine Inversion'.

The Creekview Mustangs also reached state playoffs in baseball. They lost in the second round to Tyler Lee May.

2006 Texas Education Agency Accountability Rating

Exemplary | Recognized | Academically Acceptable | Academically Unacceptable | Not Rated: Other