ROYAL-LY ROCKIN' CREEK SPLITS LOVE AS GOALIE, GUITARIST.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News Brandy brandy [for brandywine, from Du.,=burnt, i.e., distilled, wine], strong alcoholic spirit distilled from wine or from marc, the residue of the wine press. The most noted brandy is cognac, made from white grapes in the Charente district of France. Creek was ready to give up swimming to learn to play the electric guitar and join a rock band after her freshman season at Royal High in 2001. The Highlanders senior has found fame and recognition with her new group. But it hasn't been in music. Instead, Creek has flourished as a goalie on the Royal girls' water polo water polo, swimming game encompassing features of soccer, football, basketball, and hockey. The object of the game is to maneuver, by head, feet, or hand, a leather-covered ball 27 to 28 in. team. While waiting to acquire a guitar, Creek was recruited to try water polo as an alternative to swimming, and it has been a good fit. Creek is Royal's single-season and career-leader in saves. She earned first-team All-Southern Section honors in helping the Highlanders reach the Division IV final, the furthest postseason venture in program history. This season, Royal (8-0, 3-0) is undefeated heading into a Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. showdown against Agoura on Tuesday. Last year, Royal won its first league title by ending Agoura's streak of five consecutive Marmonte League titles. ``She was always around the pool,'' Royal coach Devin Hurst said. ``We got kind of word from the players that she had little interest in swimming and talked to her about coming it out and giving it a try.'' Goalie was the natural position for the 5-foot-6 Creek, a breaststroke specialist who was named the most valuable player of this year's Irvine Tournament. The leg strength developed from swimming since age 4, and her ability to extend her arms from the breaststroke resulted in an easy transition to water polo. ``It was the position that I was best at,'' Creek said. ``I wouldn't have been able to do it without swimming. In the beginning, I didn't like as much as I do now. I didn't think I was going to keep playing and trying it and then I started liking it a lot more.'' Swimming was the family sport the Creeks specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. in at Royal, until Brandy became involved in water polo. Her sister, Christine, is a sophomore at Arizona State who was an Olympic Trials qualifier qual·i·fi·er n. 1. One that qualifies, especially one that has or fulfills all appropriate qualifications, as for a position, office, or task. 2. in the 200 breaststroke and holds Royal and Marmonte League records in the 100 breaststroke and 200 individual medley med·ley n. pl. med·leys 1. An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and . Creek's younger sister Kacey, who will be a freshman at Royal next year, plans to participate in both swimming and water polo. For Brandy, strumming chords on an electric guitar seemed more interesting than swimming laps in a pool. ``I had done it for a very long time and I had always wanted to be on the Royal swim team,'' Creek said. ``After my freshman year, I think I lost my interest.'' There's only excitement for Creek when it comes to water polo She would like to play in college and has been in contact with coaches at Cal State Northridge and San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. State. Creek finally saved enough money to purchase her dream guitar, a black Fender Stratocaster “Stratocaster” redirects here. For other uses, see Stratocaster (disambiguation). The Fender Stratocaster, (often referred to as a Strat), is a model of electric guitar designed by Leo Fender and Freddie Tavares in the early 1950s, and manufactured . But she has had little opportunity to play the instrument or even read the book that she had purchased on learning to play the guitar. ``It's just sitting in my room,'' Creek said. It's not to say that it has been all fun and games "Fun and Games" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 30 March, 1964, during the first season. Opening narration with water polo for Creek. She is still required to swim half the workout Workout Informal repayment or loan forgiveness arrangement between a borrower and creditors. workout 1. The process of a debtor's meeting a loan commitment by satisfying altered repayment terms. with the field players before concentrating on goalkeeping drills. ``Even though I am a goalie, I think I know the game a lot better this year,'' Creek said. ``This team doesn't really have one All-CIF player, but they all work really good together and as a team we're a lot better than last year.'' CREEK FILE Name: Brandy Creek Sport: Girls' Water Polo School: Royal Year: Senior Position: Goalie The Scoop: The former swimmer is Royal's all-time career and single- season leader in saves. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Brandy Creek helped Royal reach Southern Section Div. IV girls' water polo final last season. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer Box: CREEK FILE (see text) |
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