Mill Creek Baseball Built From the Ground Up

Being a relatively new school, Mill Creek baseball has a mainstay of Doug Jones as the head baseball coach of the Hawks.

Opening their doors in Hoschton back in 2004, Jones have been there since the beginning.

Jones was born in Gwinnett coach and has been a public educator and coach for 31 years.

He played baseball at Parkview High School under Hugh Buchanan before continuing his athletic career at Mercer University.

Graduating from Mercer, Jones knew he wanted to be a coach and educator.

Building the baseball program from the ground up for 17 years, Jones credits his allies for the success of Hawks baseball as they went 14-1 before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the season to conclude.

“You got to surround yourself with great people and I’ve been fortunate to do that over my entire career wherever I was at,” Jones said. “Mill Creek has great assistant coaches, men, kids, and parents with the support that we’ve received. I take my job very seriously and it is like a ministry to me. I take a lot more pride to develop great young men that will be great husbands, fathers, and great men in society.”

The 17-year coaching veteran shared the process of building the program.

“I’ve been the head coach since we started. I’ve got to build the program so it’s a cool deal,” Jones said. “Building the program was probably the hardest but also the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done being a coach. To take something and start it from scratch like building a practice facility and coaching staff was exhausting but it was fun to put my fingerprints on something.”

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