This is the men's lacrosse program at Middle Creek High School in Wake County. Two state championships, eight conference titles, and a season that ended one goal short of the 2026 final. Below you will find what we have done, when tryouts are, and how to reach the coach — before you have signed a lease.
Head Coach Nick Holota reads the interest form himself. If your family has not moved yet, say so — it is the most useful thing you can tell him.
Wake County is growing quickly and a good share of our players arrive from somewhere else. You do not need an address in the Middle Creek district to start a conversation — you need about ten minutes. Here is the whole process, plainly.
Middle Creek High School serves parts of Apex and Cary. Wake County Public School System publishes the address lookup — confirm the house you are considering feeds into Middle Creek before anything else.
The player interest form lives on this site. Send it the moment you know you are coming, even if the move is a year out.
Winter workouts and off-season sessions run before tryouts. If you land in town early, your son can be in the gym with the group before he is on a roster.
Spring visits line up with our season. Tell Coach Holota which weekend you are in town and he will point you at a home game. Schedule is on the Schedule & Results page.
NCHSAA has transfer and eligibility rules, and they matter more than anything on a website. We will walk your family through them with the Middle Creek athletic director rather than guess at them here.
Tryout dates, required physicals and the season calendar are posted on this site as soon as the school sets them — this page is maintained in season and out.
Put your current city in the form. Coach Holota keeps a list of families who are on their way, and it is the fastest route to a real conversation instead of a form reply.
Game nights, workouts, signings and senior days go up on Instagram first. If you want to know what this season looks like from the inside, this is the feed to watch.
The first tile is a program photograph; the five striped tiles are placeholders. On the live site this grid pulls the most recent posts from @middlecreeklax automatically, so the page refreshes itself every time the program posts. Also on X (@middlecreeklax) and YouTube.
Both in NCHSAA 4A, then the largest classification; NCHSAA has since expanded to eight. Here is exactly what each one was.
A perfect season: 22–0, and a 17–8 win over Lake Norman in the 4A final. NCHSAA's own headline called it Middle Creek's first title.
The winning streak reached 43 straight games — a state record.
A 9–8 win over Weddington in the 4A final, decided on a goal with ten seconds on the clock. The team finished 23–2 and ranked first in the state.
All-Americans Tate Jones and Breyden Harrison; Academic All-American James Cardillo.
For the record, because it is listed wrongly in places: Middle Creek has won two state championships — 2017 and 2022. There is no third, and the program's own accounts say the same.
Twelve seasons of record, straight from MaxPreps. Judge it yourself.
| Season | Record | Conference | State rank | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 24–5 | 12–2 | 6 | State runners-up — 8–9 in overtime to Charlotte Catholic |
| 2024–25 | 21–4 | 14–0 | 2 | |
| 2023–24 | 17–5 | 12–2 | 10 | |
| 2022–23 | 21–2 | 14–0 | 7 | SWAC champions |
| 2021–22 | 23–2 | 13–1 | 1 | State champions |
| 2020–21 | 12–1 | 8–0 | 9 | SWAC champions |
| 2018–19 | 18–3 | 12–0 | 4 | State semi-finalist |
| 2017–18 | 21–1 | 12–0 | 3 | SWAC champions |
| 2016–17 | 22–0 | 16–0 | 1 | State champions |
| 2015–16 | 18–4 | 12–2 | 13 | |
| 2014–15 | 18–2 | 15–1 | 2 | SWAC champions |
| 2013–14 | 16–2 | 15–1 | 7 | SWAC champions |
The 2026 state tournament run: beat South Brunswick 18–2, East Chapel Hill 16–1, Croatan 8–4 and Union Pines 17–5 before the one-goal loss. Full schedule and results and the roster are maintained here in season.
One name, one inbox. Questions about tryouts, off-season, eligibility or a visit go to the head coach, and families who are still out of state get an answer the same as families down the road.
From the program's own records: 7 players from the 2021 team went on to play college lacrosse. From the 2020 class, 5 players — three of them Division I.
Those are the numbers the program publishes. We do not extrapolate past them.
This form lives on this site — no Google login, no redirect. It goes to Coach Holota. If your family has not moved yet, the box near the bottom is the important one.
The old site stopped in 2023. This one carries tryout dates, results and program announcements as they happen. Article slots shown as placeholders below.
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