Football
Logan Lowery, Assistant Director/Communications
STARKVILLE – The list of athletic accomplishments and accolades within Creed Whittemore’s immediate family is nothing short of impressive.
Whittemore’s father, Mark, played wide receiver at UCF in the mid-1990s and has been the head coach at Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Florida for over a decade. His mother, Missy, was a three-time All-SEC volleyball player at Florida.
Older brothers, Trent and Luke, are/were college wideouts with Trent recently transferring from Florida to UCF while Luke, who played at Troy, just took a job at Southern Miss to work for the Athletic Foundation/Eagle Club.
Needless to say, there’s no shortage of sports that could be discussed during dinners at the Whittemore home. But with athletics already occupying so much of their day-to-day, the family tries to maintain some semblance of normalcy at home.
“We try not to get too submerged in it because it’s already a big part of our lives,” Creed said. “We enjoy sports but we try to do what we do for the Lord and make sure He’s at the top.”
Like the rest of the family, Creed is following in their footsteps and is now a freshman wide receiver at Mississippi State. The former four-star recruit feels fortunate to be the next Whittemore to carry on the family’s legacy of excellence in college athletics.
“It’s awesome to experience all of this and to be living out what my dad and brothers have lived out,” Creed said. “I’ve just taken my own path and am creating my own story.”
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