Career
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 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.
He is also remembered as being involved in a sickening incident in 1997, when he physically dislocated his knee cap while laying a tackle. However he knocked it back into place immediately after and incredibly played the next week.
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. Cresswell"s brother Shane had coached Ulverstone (NTFL) to the premiership in 2000.
In 2009 Cresswell was appointed player coach of Division One Sydney American Federation of Labor-Congress side the Manly Wolves.
Despite a promising start to the season, numerous off-field issues -including being extradited to Queensland for fraudand player discontent saw Cresswell sacked from the role at season"s education In April 2009 he was declared bankrupt, owing almost $700,000. He admitted that a gambling addiction had led him to lose everything after he retired from playing football.
2010 saw Cresswell sign with Sydney American Federation of Labor-Congress Premier Division side Western Suburbs, kicking 33 goals in 10 matches.
In December 2010 Cresswell was found guilty of fraud offences and sentenced to a minimum 10 months jail. Upon release in October 2011, he appeared on Channel 7"s "Sunday Night", where he admitted to placing a $200 bet on a match he was playing in back in 2003.
