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Hard work has earned Creatore playing time, respect and the captain's band.
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GoHeels Exclusive: Hard Work Has Led To Opportunity For Creatore
November 20, 2019 | Field Hockey, Featured Writers
By Pat James, GoHeels.com
Marissa Creatore sat in the Francis E. Henry Stadium stands, just as she had several times before.
Then a student at East Chapel Hill High School (ECHHS), she'd attended her fair share of UNC field hockey games since she started playing the sport in fifth grade. The more she went, the more she appreciated the Tar Heels' high-caliber play. And the more in awe she became of head coach Karen Shelton, the goddess of field hockey in Creatore's eyes.
On this day, though, the person Creatore found herself most mesmerized by was Tar Heel midfielder Rachel Magerman, then one of Creatore's coaches at ECHHS.
For so long, Creatore had admired UNC's players. But never had she had a connection with one like she did with Magerman. To her, Magerman was a celebrity. And as she watched her that day, Creatore came to a realization.
"People look up to them so much," she remembers thinking. "I want to be that someday."
At the same time, she doubted she'd ever get the chance.
In her mind, she wasn't good enough to play at Carolina, a program that consistently attracts the top recruits from hotbeds such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Even when Shelton offered her a spot on the team as an invited walk-on, Creatore figured she'd sit on the bench throughout her time at UNC. But once she arrived on campus, she never resigned herself to that.
In the four-plus years since then, Creatore has turned herself into one of the Tar Heels' best players and a dynamic leader. The local product has also developed into the role model she hoped to be, as unlikely as that once seemed.
"She's the anomaly," said her father, Ron Creatore. "She's that four-leaf clover of field hockey players."
Coming to Carolina
Ron and Creatore's mother, Patty, met in high school in Youngstown, Ohio. They still lived there when Marissa, the second of three children, was born in 1996. But eight years later, they decided to leave, much to the surprise of their family in the area.
Both Ron and Patty said they wished to move somewhere that would offer their children more opportunities. Living somewhere warmer and with good health and educational institutions also appealed to them. So, they searched for places that matched that criteria. Ultimately, their decision came down to four options. They deemed Chapel Hill best.
"It was kind of a perfect place for us," Patty said. "We just picked up everybody and left."
When they did, no one in the family knew anything about the UNC-Duke rivalry. So, when Creatore walked into her second-grade classroom wearing a yellow shirt the day of a men's basketball game between the two schools, she wasn't prepared for what came next.
Almost immediately, her classmates started asking who she was cheering for, and she realized then and there that she had to make a choice. It wasn't difficult.
"Of course I chose the better blue," she said.
Creatore's college allegiance might not have been determined until then, but she'd been involved in athletics for years. For as long as she can remember, her mother required her, her older brother Matthew and her younger sister Maddie to participate in some sort of activity each season. It didn't have to be a sport, but that's naturally what they were drawn to.
For Creatore, there was baseball, basketball, lacrosse, soccer and swimming. She also participated in a running program. Then, once she became eligible for the local parks and recreation field hockey league in fifth grade, her mother suggested she give it a try.
What Creatore remembers most about that first season is she was "so bad," as she often struggled to make contact with the ball. That, however, wasn't a deterrent. Instead, it motivated her to improve. And around seventh grade, she started thinking she could be good.
As was the case in every other sport Creatore played, Ron said, her speed set her apart. Multiple times a game, she'd smack the ball down the field, then chase it down.
"Nobody could catch her," he said. "Then she would get the ball and she would score, and it was kind of embarrassing because she single-handedly would be running up the score and nobody would say to her, 'Hey, take it a little bit easier.'"
Creatore's speed was among the traits that stood out to Grant Fulton, Carolina's associate head coach, when she started playing for his club team, Carolina All-Stars, in high school.
Sometimes, he said, Creatore would get around one or more defenders and miss an open goal. But her speed "was a luxury." And she was always coachable, a hard worker and tough.
"I thought the potential was there," Fulton said, "hence why when she started talking about coming to UNC, I spoke to Coach Shelton and said, 'Here's a good prospect for us. She has all the raw skill and talent and attributes that could make up a nice player for us.'"
As much as Creatore, a four-time state champion in field hockey at ECHHS, wanted to play for the Tar Heels, she explored other options, thinking she wouldn't hear from Shelton. But in her junior year, the head coach came calling.
Initially, Creatore's parents weren't going to let her answer Shelton's call because the time it was scheduled for fell in the middle of a math test. They relented, though, after Creatore came to an arrangement with her teacher. So, when Shelton called, Creatore stepped outside her classroom. She then received the question she'd always dreamed of being asked.
"(Shelton) just asked, 'Do you want to be a Tar Heel?'" Creatore said. "And immediately I just was like, 'Yes, I want to be a Tar Heel!' I called my parents after the call and I was like, 'I think I just committed to UNC.' I didn't know if that's how it worked, but I was ecstatic, I was crying, I was so excited."
All of that came across over the phone, Shelton said. But as much as she'll remember that, she'll never forget the promise Creatore made.
"What I loved," Shelton said, "is she said, 'I am going to work so hard for you.'"
And she stayed true to her word.
Gaining respect
Before enrolling at UNC in 2015, Creatore knew there'd be a considerable skill gap between her and her teammates, most of whom grew up playing on turf instead of the slower grass fields she was accustomed to. For that reason, she was prepared to redshirt.
But even then, she didn't truly realize how far behind she was until practices started.
"The reality check," she said, "was more like, 'I'm going to have to work four times as hard as I thought I was to even get a chance to get playing time.'"
As redshirts, Creatore and classmate Ellen Payne served as ball girls during scrimmages. In practices, they, along with fellow redshirts Leila Evans, Catherine Hayden and Ali Rushton, competed with each other and pushed the starters as hard as they could.
Traditionally, Carolina's redshirts play corner defense against the starters during practices, and because they're essentially sitting ducks, the session is called "Duck D." Creatore and the other redshirts that year took pride in their roles, so much so that they asked Shelton to pick the "Duck of the Day" after each practice. Creatore said that fueled her competitive spirit.
Over the course of her redshirt year, Creatore put in as much extra work as she could, whether that was on the field or in the weight room. (She is a three-time winner of the team's Iron Ram Award as the top performer in strength & conditioning.) She also grew smarter as a player, learning all the intricacies of playing forward.
"I think that redshirt year was humbling," she said, "and also it taught me so much about UNC field hockey in general and what our culture is but also skills on the field, fitness off of it, everything. It really took a whole year for me to kind of catch up with all that stuff."
As she did, she also gained more independence.
Both Ron and Patty left home for college, and they always encouraged their children to do the same so that they could become self-reliant. So, when Creatore called during her junior year of high school and told them she'd committed to Carolina, Ron said he was initially upset.
He eventually accepted her decision, knowing she couldn't pass up the opportunity. But he and Patty made it clear entering her freshman year that, aside from attending her games, they'd only be around as needed. They also told her she couldn't come home before Thanksgiving.
"That was good for her," Patty said, "because she had to push herself personally."
After a first semester full of growth, Creatore said she started to realize that she could hold her own on the field in the spring of 2016.
At that point, her skills still lagged behind those of her peers. But her speed was unmatched. So, as she progressed through the spring, she started believing she could carve out a role for herself as a spark plug off the bench. And that's exactly what she proved to be as a redshirt freshman, playing in all 26 games as a reserve forward and earning the Dawson Family Most Improved Player Award with four goals and an assist.
That was more than she ever thought she'd accomplish in her career. Still, entering her redshirt sophomore season, she thought she could be better, perhaps even a starter – which she turned out to be. She also saw a void that needed to be filled.
Carolina had only one senior, Gab Major, on its roster entering the 2017 season. And with the team practicing and playing its "home" games at Duke in the year between the demolition of Henry Stadium and the opening of the new Karen Shelton Stadium, Creatore recognized someone needed to step up and keep everyone's spirits high.
"I really took it upon myself to make sure everyone was thriving and happy," she said. "I wasn't necessarily viewing myself at that point as like a big leader on the team, but I just wanted to be a difference-maker, in that sense. And coming in with that attitude, I think I gained a lot of respect from others, which eventually turned me into a leader."
In the two seasons since then, Creatore, who has started all 67 of UNC's games since 2017, has been a captain. Once a bit hesitant to have harder conversations with her teammates, Shelton said she isn't now. As important as that is, Creatore's contagious optimism is her best leadership trait.
"She's very inspiring," senior midfielder Feline Guenther said. "Her positivity, her energy, it's really something. I just look up at her on the field sometimes and I know she's there for me."
Even some of the most positive people wouldn't be able to maintain such an attitude seemingly all the time. But it's easy for Creatore.
"That's just kind of my personality," she said. "If we fail, you know what? We're going to learn our lesson from it and we're going to go somewhere new. That's kind of how I've always been. Having that wiring, especially after that junior year (in 2017) when we lost in the final four, it was natural for me to just be like, 'Guys, this is an opportunity for us. We're not losing another game.'"
Forty-four games later, they still haven't.
Finishing strong
Sitting in the team lounge at Karen Shelton Stadium last Wednesday, Creatore got choked up a handful of times as she tried putting into words how much she loves Chapel Hill and UNC and how hard it'll be to leave after she graduates in December.
Somehow, she held back her tears then. But she couldn't after the Tar Heels beat Iowa 2-1 Sunday to advance to an 11th straight NCAA final four in her final home game.
"Before the game, I was just playing scenes in my head of when I was a redshirt and just all the work that's been done," she said, pausing to collect herself. "This program means so much to me, and to play my last game here was just amazing, and with a win and going to the final four. I just want to finish it off strong."
She's certainly on track to.
Entering Friday's national semifinal game against Boston College at Wake Forest's Kentner Stadium, Creatore is second on the team in goals (14) and points (33). Both marks are career highs. In Sunday's thriller against Iowa, she assisted on Guenther's game-winning goal. That came a week after she scored twice in the ACC Tournament final against Boston College and was named tournament MVP.
Any college coach will tell you there are few things they enjoy more than watching a senior deliver such performances as they near the end of their career. That's no different with Shelton, who knows as well as anyone how much work Creatore has put in to reach this point.
"For a long time all she had was her speed," Shelton said, "and then just she's grown receiving the ball, to now making elimination moves, to shooting the ball, forehand, backhand, deflections. It's been a gradual process."
Yet, as much as Shelton and Fulton have helped Creatore grow on the field, it's what they've done for her off of it that Ron and Patty are most thankful for.
"What I appreciate the most is how Coach Shelton and Grant and the team's culture have molded her into a leader and a disciplined young woman," Ron said. "To me, if they lost every game and they still developed her as a person, I would feel as though that was successful. The wins and the national championship and everything, to me, have been extras.
"I thank Coach Shelton and Grant for everything they've done from a development standpoint. … The lessons they've taught her and the values they've instilled in her are going to carry her through the rest of her life."
As a child, Ron said Creatore wanted to be a volcanologist. Then, when she arrived at Carolina, she was dead set on becoming a nurse. Ultimately, she ended up majoring in psychology and minoring in media and journalism, with a specialization in advertising/public relations.
Creatore thought her major and minor could help her find a job that will allow her to showcase her creativity and outgoing personality, just as she's been able to do as the field hockey team's social media manager the last two years. This past summer, she interned with Nike at the company's world headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.
That experience, Patty thinks, has helped prepare Marissa and the family for what comes next – Marissa finally leaving Chapel Hill.
Marissa plans to move to New York City after graduation. And although her parents will no longer be just a few minutes away, she won't be alone: her brother is moving there from Atlanta.
"I love Chapel Hill so much, and I'm going to miss it," Creatore said. "They call it heaven and there is something so special about it. Everyone is happy and the skies are always blue. But I'm also just excited to be in a new place where there's a new adventure around every corner."
Growing up, Marissa went not only to Tar Heel field hockey games, but also other athletic events. She hung out on Franklin Street, too. But before becoming a UNC student, she'd spent hardly any time in the heart of campus. Doing so the past four and a half years and experiencing what it's like to be a part of the student body, she said, has given her a greater appreciation of where she's from.
The same can be said of her experience playing for the program that she longed to join.
"It's been so incredible," she said. "I get so excited to hear my name being announced and, 'From Chapel Hill, North Carolina.' And I know there are a bunch of little girls who are sitting where I used to sit and for them to look down and see me doing that, I just want them to know that they could be there, too, someday.
"That's an incredible feeling for me to know that I'm inspiring them the way that UNC field hockey girls in the past inspired me."
Marissa Creatore sat in the Francis E. Henry Stadium stands, just as she had several times before.
Then a student at East Chapel Hill High School (ECHHS), she'd attended her fair share of UNC field hockey games since she started playing the sport in fifth grade. The more she went, the more she appreciated the Tar Heels' high-caliber play. And the more in awe she became of head coach Karen Shelton, the goddess of field hockey in Creatore's eyes.
On this day, though, the person Creatore found herself most mesmerized by was Tar Heel midfielder Rachel Magerman, then one of Creatore's coaches at ECHHS.
For so long, Creatore had admired UNC's players. But never had she had a connection with one like she did with Magerman. To her, Magerman was a celebrity. And as she watched her that day, Creatore came to a realization.
"People look up to them so much," she remembers thinking. "I want to be that someday."
At the same time, she doubted she'd ever get the chance.
In her mind, she wasn't good enough to play at Carolina, a program that consistently attracts the top recruits from hotbeds such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Even when Shelton offered her a spot on the team as an invited walk-on, Creatore figured she'd sit on the bench throughout her time at UNC. But once she arrived on campus, she never resigned herself to that.
In the four-plus years since then, Creatore has turned herself into one of the Tar Heels' best players and a dynamic leader. The local product has also developed into the role model she hoped to be, as unlikely as that once seemed.
"She's the anomaly," said her father, Ron Creatore. "She's that four-leaf clover of field hockey players."
Coming to Carolina
Ron and Creatore's mother, Patty, met in high school in Youngstown, Ohio. They still lived there when Marissa, the second of three children, was born in 1996. But eight years later, they decided to leave, much to the surprise of their family in the area.
Both Ron and Patty said they wished to move somewhere that would offer their children more opportunities. Living somewhere warmer and with good health and educational institutions also appealed to them. So, they searched for places that matched that criteria. Ultimately, their decision came down to four options. They deemed Chapel Hill best.
"It was kind of a perfect place for us," Patty said. "We just picked up everybody and left."
When they did, no one in the family knew anything about the UNC-Duke rivalry. So, when Creatore walked into her second-grade classroom wearing a yellow shirt the day of a men's basketball game between the two schools, she wasn't prepared for what came next.
Almost immediately, her classmates started asking who she was cheering for, and she realized then and there that she had to make a choice. It wasn't difficult.
"Of course I chose the better blue," she said.
Creatore's college allegiance might not have been determined until then, but she'd been involved in athletics for years. For as long as she can remember, her mother required her, her older brother Matthew and her younger sister Maddie to participate in some sort of activity each season. It didn't have to be a sport, but that's naturally what they were drawn to.
For Creatore, there was baseball, basketball, lacrosse, soccer and swimming. She also participated in a running program. Then, once she became eligible for the local parks and recreation field hockey league in fifth grade, her mother suggested she give it a try.
What Creatore remembers most about that first season is she was "so bad," as she often struggled to make contact with the ball. That, however, wasn't a deterrent. Instead, it motivated her to improve. And around seventh grade, she started thinking she could be good.
As was the case in every other sport Creatore played, Ron said, her speed set her apart. Multiple times a game, she'd smack the ball down the field, then chase it down.
"Nobody could catch her," he said. "Then she would get the ball and she would score, and it was kind of embarrassing because she single-handedly would be running up the score and nobody would say to her, 'Hey, take it a little bit easier.'"
Creatore's speed was among the traits that stood out to Grant Fulton, Carolina's associate head coach, when she started playing for his club team, Carolina All-Stars, in high school.
Sometimes, he said, Creatore would get around one or more defenders and miss an open goal. But her speed "was a luxury." And she was always coachable, a hard worker and tough.
"I thought the potential was there," Fulton said, "hence why when she started talking about coming to UNC, I spoke to Coach Shelton and said, 'Here's a good prospect for us. She has all the raw skill and talent and attributes that could make up a nice player for us.'"
As much as Creatore, a four-time state champion in field hockey at ECHHS, wanted to play for the Tar Heels, she explored other options, thinking she wouldn't hear from Shelton. But in her junior year, the head coach came calling.
Initially, Creatore's parents weren't going to let her answer Shelton's call because the time it was scheduled for fell in the middle of a math test. They relented, though, after Creatore came to an arrangement with her teacher. So, when Shelton called, Creatore stepped outside her classroom. She then received the question she'd always dreamed of being asked.
"(Shelton) just asked, 'Do you want to be a Tar Heel?'" Creatore said. "And immediately I just was like, 'Yes, I want to be a Tar Heel!' I called my parents after the call and I was like, 'I think I just committed to UNC.' I didn't know if that's how it worked, but I was ecstatic, I was crying, I was so excited."
All of that came across over the phone, Shelton said. But as much as she'll remember that, she'll never forget the promise Creatore made.
"What I loved," Shelton said, "is she said, 'I am going to work so hard for you.'"
And she stayed true to her word.
Gaining respect
Before enrolling at UNC in 2015, Creatore knew there'd be a considerable skill gap between her and her teammates, most of whom grew up playing on turf instead of the slower grass fields she was accustomed to. For that reason, she was prepared to redshirt.
But even then, she didn't truly realize how far behind she was until practices started.
"The reality check," she said, "was more like, 'I'm going to have to work four times as hard as I thought I was to even get a chance to get playing time.'"
As redshirts, Creatore and classmate Ellen Payne served as ball girls during scrimmages. In practices, they, along with fellow redshirts Leila Evans, Catherine Hayden and Ali Rushton, competed with each other and pushed the starters as hard as they could.
Traditionally, Carolina's redshirts play corner defense against the starters during practices, and because they're essentially sitting ducks, the session is called "Duck D." Creatore and the other redshirts that year took pride in their roles, so much so that they asked Shelton to pick the "Duck of the Day" after each practice. Creatore said that fueled her competitive spirit.
Over the course of her redshirt year, Creatore put in as much extra work as she could, whether that was on the field or in the weight room. (She is a three-time winner of the team's Iron Ram Award as the top performer in strength & conditioning.) She also grew smarter as a player, learning all the intricacies of playing forward.
"I think that redshirt year was humbling," she said, "and also it taught me so much about UNC field hockey in general and what our culture is but also skills on the field, fitness off of it, everything. It really took a whole year for me to kind of catch up with all that stuff."
As she did, she also gained more independence.
Both Ron and Patty left home for college, and they always encouraged their children to do the same so that they could become self-reliant. So, when Creatore called during her junior year of high school and told them she'd committed to Carolina, Ron said he was initially upset.
He eventually accepted her decision, knowing she couldn't pass up the opportunity. But he and Patty made it clear entering her freshman year that, aside from attending her games, they'd only be around as needed. They also told her she couldn't come home before Thanksgiving.
"That was good for her," Patty said, "because she had to push herself personally."
After a first semester full of growth, Creatore said she started to realize that she could hold her own on the field in the spring of 2016.
At that point, her skills still lagged behind those of her peers. But her speed was unmatched. So, as she progressed through the spring, she started believing she could carve out a role for herself as a spark plug off the bench. And that's exactly what she proved to be as a redshirt freshman, playing in all 26 games as a reserve forward and earning the Dawson Family Most Improved Player Award with four goals and an assist.
That was more than she ever thought she'd accomplish in her career. Still, entering her redshirt sophomore season, she thought she could be better, perhaps even a starter – which she turned out to be. She also saw a void that needed to be filled.
Carolina had only one senior, Gab Major, on its roster entering the 2017 season. And with the team practicing and playing its "home" games at Duke in the year between the demolition of Henry Stadium and the opening of the new Karen Shelton Stadium, Creatore recognized someone needed to step up and keep everyone's spirits high.
"I really took it upon myself to make sure everyone was thriving and happy," she said. "I wasn't necessarily viewing myself at that point as like a big leader on the team, but I just wanted to be a difference-maker, in that sense. And coming in with that attitude, I think I gained a lot of respect from others, which eventually turned me into a leader."
In the two seasons since then, Creatore, who has started all 67 of UNC's games since 2017, has been a captain. Once a bit hesitant to have harder conversations with her teammates, Shelton said she isn't now. As important as that is, Creatore's contagious optimism is her best leadership trait.
"She's very inspiring," senior midfielder Feline Guenther said. "Her positivity, her energy, it's really something. I just look up at her on the field sometimes and I know she's there for me."
Even some of the most positive people wouldn't be able to maintain such an attitude seemingly all the time. But it's easy for Creatore.
"That's just kind of my personality," she said. "If we fail, you know what? We're going to learn our lesson from it and we're going to go somewhere new. That's kind of how I've always been. Having that wiring, especially after that junior year (in 2017) when we lost in the final four, it was natural for me to just be like, 'Guys, this is an opportunity for us. We're not losing another game.'"
Forty-four games later, they still haven't.
Finishing strong
Sitting in the team lounge at Karen Shelton Stadium last Wednesday, Creatore got choked up a handful of times as she tried putting into words how much she loves Chapel Hill and UNC and how hard it'll be to leave after she graduates in December.
Somehow, she held back her tears then. But she couldn't after the Tar Heels beat Iowa 2-1 Sunday to advance to an 11th straight NCAA final four in her final home game.
"Before the game, I was just playing scenes in my head of when I was a redshirt and just all the work that's been done," she said, pausing to collect herself. "This program means so much to me, and to play my last game here was just amazing, and with a win and going to the final four. I just want to finish it off strong."
She's certainly on track to.
Entering Friday's national semifinal game against Boston College at Wake Forest's Kentner Stadium, Creatore is second on the team in goals (14) and points (33). Both marks are career highs. In Sunday's thriller against Iowa, she assisted on Guenther's game-winning goal. That came a week after she scored twice in the ACC Tournament final against Boston College and was named tournament MVP.
Any college coach will tell you there are few things they enjoy more than watching a senior deliver such performances as they near the end of their career. That's no different with Shelton, who knows as well as anyone how much work Creatore has put in to reach this point.
"For a long time all she had was her speed," Shelton said, "and then just she's grown receiving the ball, to now making elimination moves, to shooting the ball, forehand, backhand, deflections. It's been a gradual process."
Yet, as much as Shelton and Fulton have helped Creatore grow on the field, it's what they've done for her off of it that Ron and Patty are most thankful for.
"What I appreciate the most is how Coach Shelton and Grant and the team's culture have molded her into a leader and a disciplined young woman," Ron said. "To me, if they lost every game and they still developed her as a person, I would feel as though that was successful. The wins and the national championship and everything, to me, have been extras.
"I thank Coach Shelton and Grant for everything they've done from a development standpoint. … The lessons they've taught her and the values they've instilled in her are going to carry her through the rest of her life."
As a child, Ron said Creatore wanted to be a volcanologist. Then, when she arrived at Carolina, she was dead set on becoming a nurse. Ultimately, she ended up majoring in psychology and minoring in media and journalism, with a specialization in advertising/public relations.
Creatore thought her major and minor could help her find a job that will allow her to showcase her creativity and outgoing personality, just as she's been able to do as the field hockey team's social media manager the last two years. This past summer, she interned with Nike at the company's world headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.
That experience, Patty thinks, has helped prepare Marissa and the family for what comes next – Marissa finally leaving Chapel Hill.
Marissa plans to move to New York City after graduation. And although her parents will no longer be just a few minutes away, she won't be alone: her brother is moving there from Atlanta.
"I love Chapel Hill so much, and I'm going to miss it," Creatore said. "They call it heaven and there is something so special about it. Everyone is happy and the skies are always blue. But I'm also just excited to be in a new place where there's a new adventure around every corner."
Growing up, Marissa went not only to Tar Heel field hockey games, but also other athletic events. She hung out on Franklin Street, too. But before becoming a UNC student, she'd spent hardly any time in the heart of campus. Doing so the past four and a half years and experiencing what it's like to be a part of the student body, she said, has given her a greater appreciation of where she's from.
The same can be said of her experience playing for the program that she longed to join.
"It's been so incredible," she said. "I get so excited to hear my name being announced and, 'From Chapel Hill, North Carolina.' And I know there are a bunch of little girls who are sitting where I used to sit and for them to look down and see me doing that, I just want them to know that they could be there, too, someday.
"That's an incredible feeling for me to know that I'm inspiring them the way that UNC field hockey girls in the past inspired me."
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