Annika Creel
Position: D
Height: 5-9
Hometown: Zionsville, Ind.
College: Butler University/ UConn
2023: Started all six matches played totaling 481 minutes of action… Registered a pair of assists… Part of a backline that only allowed six goals and helped the Girls in Blue to 10 shutouts… Helped the club to the 2023 W League Championship, second straight division title and a 12-1-1 record.
Creel joined Indy Eleven after spending the 2021 and 2022 NWSL seasons with the Houston Dash. After tearing her ACL Creel missed part of the 2022 regular season and re-signed with the Dash for the 2023 season, before coming to Indy.
Before joining the Dash, Creel spent the 2020 season in Sweden with Goteborg FC.
Creel spent three years of her college soccer career with Butler University. While with the Bulldogs she started 53 of her 55 games played and was selected to the All-BIG EAST First Team all three seasons. Between the 2018 and 2019 seasons, Creel was a three-time Big East Defensive Player of the Week and helped the Bulldogs limit opponents to 16 goals on the season her redshirt senior season.
Prior to her time at Butler, Creel spent one season at the University of Connecticut playing in 15 games and over 500 minutes on the field for the Huskies.
Creel was a four-year varsity soccer letter winner at Zionsville Community High School. She was named two-time All-State and Academic All-State. In her senior season, she was a Girls High School All-American and named MVP of the Girl’s High School All-American game.
