| Daryn Cresswell | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Born | 22 May 1971 | ||
| Original team | North Hobart | ||
| Draft | No. 34, 1988 national draft | ||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1992–2003 | Sydney Swans | 244 (208) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2003. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Daryn Cresswell (born 22 May 1971) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League, and the former senior coach of the Tasmanian Devils Football Club that played in the Victorian Football League. He is currently the Head Coach of the Corowa Rutherglen Football Club.
Cresswell started his football with Glenorchy in the Tasmanian Football League. He also briefly played for Geelong Reserves in the Victorian Football League. Daryn then returned to Tasmania to play with North Hobart in the TFL the following year. Daryn was then drafted to the Sydney Swans in the 1992 mid-season draft.
Cresswell played for the Swans for twelve seasons between 1992 and 2003, playing 244 games, the seventh-most games in Sydney and South Melbourne history. [1] He was a member of the Swans' losing 1996 Grand Final team and was named in both the Swans and Tasmanian Teams of the Century. [2] In 1993, in his second season, he won the Swans' most improved award; and, in the following season, he was awarded the Bob Skilton Medal as the Swans best for 1994. [3] In 1997, he dislocated his kneecap while laying a tackle, knocked it back into place immediately, and played again the next week. Other notable moments in Cresswell's career include a number of game-winning goals. Particularly, a kick after the siren from Creswell scored a goal and secured victory for Sydney over North Melbourne in Round 4 of the 2002 season. [4]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
| 1992 | Sydney | 28 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 100 | 56 | 156 | 23 | 1 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 12.5 | 7.0 | 19.5 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0 |
| 1993 | Sydney | 28 | 18 | 29 | 15 | 224 | 83 | 307 | 75 | 18 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 12.4 | 4.6 | 17.1 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0 |
| 1994 | Sydney | 28 | 21 | 15 | 13 | 275 | 152 | 427 | 84 | 26 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 13.1 | 7.2 | 20.3 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 3 |
| 1995 | Sydney | 8 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 306 | 201 | 507 | 111 | 24 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 13.9 | 9.1 | 23.0 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 3 |
| 1996 | Sydney | 8 | 24 | 11 | 22 | 363 | 161 | 524 | 106 | 56 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 15.1 | 6.7 | 21.8 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 3 |
| 1997 | Sydney | 8 | 23 | 16 | 14 | 367 | 244 | 611 | 71 | 32 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 16.0 | 10.6 | 26.6 | 3.1 | 1.4 | 6 |
| 1998 | Sydney | 8 | 24 | 21 | 13 | 375 | 264 | 639 | 85 | 15 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 15.6 | 11.0 | 26.6 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 13 |
| 1999 | Sydney | 8 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 352 | 284 | 636 | 98 | 26 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 15.3 | 12.3 | 27.7 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 7 |
| 2000 | Sydney | 8 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 364 | 202 | 566 | 108 | 31 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 16.5 | 9.2 | 25.7 | 4.9 | 1.4 | 11 |
| 2001 | Sydney | 8 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 237 | 115 | 352 | 77 | 31 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 13.2 | 6.4 | 19.6 | 4.3 | 1.7 | 8 |
| 2002 | Sydney | 8 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 277 | 223 | 500 | 81 | 48 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 12.6 | 10.1 | 22.7 | 3.7 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 2003 | Sydney | 8 | 19 | 21 | 6 | 217 | 159 | 376 | 91 | 31 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 11.4 | 8.4 | 19.8 | 4.8 | 1.6 | 5 |
| Career | 244 | 208 | 159 | 3457 | 2144 | 5601 | 1010 | 339 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 14.2 | 8.8 | 23.0 | 4.1 | 1.4 | 61 | ||
Following his retirement as a player, Cresswell became an assistant coach—firstly at Geelong and then at Brisbane. He then moved back to Tasmania and coached the Tasmanian Devils in the VFL following the resignation of Matthew Armstrong.
In 2014, Daryn Creswell was appointed senior coach of the Wodonga Raiders in the Ovens and Murray Football League (O&MFL). The Raiders had finished the 2013 season with a 3–15 record, but under Creswell’s tenure from 2014 to 2018, the club qualified for four consecutive finals series.
Creswell joined the Wangaratta Rovers as senior coach ahead of the 2019 OMFNL season. The Rovers had recorded a winless 0–18 campaign in 2018. In his first year in charge, the club narrowly missed the finals on percentage, before qualifying for the finals in the next three seasons in which competition was held (2020 season cancelled due to COVID-19). Creswell departed the Rovers in 2022.
In 2024, Creswell became senior coach of the South Cairns Cutters in the AFL Cairns competition. That season, the Cutters won the premiership, with a playing group that included former VFL footballers Tyler Roos and Josh Clayton.
In 2025, Creswell returned to the OMFNL as senior coach of Corowa Rutherglen.
Business career
Outside football, Creswell is the Managing Director of a construction company based in Albury, New South Wales. The business (Executive Garden Scapes) has been involved in a number of local and large projects, including the construction of a retirement home in Rutherglen.