{"id":307536,"date":"2026-06-15T01:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307536\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:57:09","slug":"usm-baseball-assistant-coach-announced-as-jacksonville-states-new-head-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307536\/","title":{"rendered":"USM baseball assistant coach announced as Jacksonville State\u2019s new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) &#8211; Jacksonville State announced today that Travis Creel will be the new head coach of the Gamecock baseball program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Creel has had seven successful seasons at USM, serving as recruiting coordinator, hitting coach and infield coach. Before becoming a coach, Creel attended USM and was a two-time team captain. He was also a member of the Golden Eagles\u2019 2009 College World Series team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI am incredibly honored and grateful for the opportunity to lead the Jax State baseball program,\u201d Creel said. \u201cThis is a program with a proud tradition, outstanding facilities, tremendous support and a clear commitment to winning at the highest level. My family and I are excited to become part of the Jax State community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Along with Southern Miss, Creel also has coached at Louisiana Tech and Jones College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Creel is the sixth head coach in Jax State baseball history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Want more WDAM 7 news in your inbox? Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdam.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WDAM. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) &#8211; Jacksonville State announced today that Travis Creel will be the new head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3816,85205,128431,5545,128433,116,118,117,38519,122168,128430,128432,122171,128429,118954,118955,118957,118956,128434],"class_list":["post-307536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-coach","tag-coach-travis-creel","tag-college-baseball","tag-college-baseball-coaches","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jax-state","tag-jax-state-baseball","tag-travis-creel","tag-travis-creel-jax-state","tag-usm","tag-usm-baseball","tag-wdam","tag-wdam-7","tag-wdam-7-news","tag-wdam-news","tag-who-is-jax-states-new-baseball-head-coach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}