Meet Neil W. Everett, Principal

 

Joined Team CCS - July 2012

Experience
Starting in 2012, I taught secondary Social Studies and coached soccer and golf at Maiden High School. I then spent six years as Assistant Principal and Athletic Director at St. Stephens High School. Now, in 2024,  I am excited to be joining the Mill Creek family as Principal!

Education 
BA (History), University of North Carolina at Pembroke
MA (Executive Leadership Studies), Gardner-Webb University

Why I Became an Educator 
From a young age, I have enjoyed learning new things. My mother was a teacher's assistant for thirty years, and she loved going to work every single day, and still does after her retirement. She still graces the halls of the elementary school she retired from; reading books to kids or decorating the hallways. When in town, she's often at my children's schools reading and throwing parties. She has exemplified life-long education to me. My father taught me in a different capacity. He has never worked in a classroom, but was always taking time to educate me and my sister on paths of daily life; the meaning and value in hard work, how to treat people, and how to care for people you loved. 

In addition to them, I had a special teacher who cared for me at a time of life where I struggled to find my place. My eleventh grade US History teacher, Jennifer Byrd, never let me give up on myself and made me push myself to become better than what I was modeling at that moment in time. 

I want to be an example to kids the way these people were, and still continue to be, to me. 

Favorite Place in Catawba County
I love being anywhere my wife and kids are.  

Favorite Activities
I am an avid outdoorsman, and enjoy fly fishing and hunting. I have traveled to some of the most remote places in the continental US chasing waterfowl, my biggest passion!

Something Unique About Me
I am from Richmond County, NC, and still have some of that low-country accent. Students I have taught, and adults I have worked with, still give me a hard time about how I pronounce certain words. 

Meet Kimberly Heckler, Interim Assistant Principal