New coaches introduced at Trustees meeting

Ben Conrad, new women's basketball head coach. Photos by Aneal Vohra, guest to The Ledger.

Coach Jenny Ei, new women's volleyball head coach. Photo by Aneal Vohra, guest to The Ledger.

Coach Mike Bloemker, men's and women's track & field head coach. Photo by Aneal Vohra, guest to The Ledger.

The head Track and Field, Women’s Basketball and Women’s Volleyball coaches left some big voids to fill in the off-season.

The Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees announced on June 19 the replacement for three of the college’s Head Coaches.

Mike Bloemker inherits the title of Head Track and Field Coach. He served as the Women and Men’s Assistant Track Coach and the Head Cross Country Coach for the past ten years.

The new women’s hoops coach is Benjamin Conrad, the only newcomer to the college. He coached women’s basketball as a head coach since 2002 at Des Moines Area Community College then Upper Iowa University.

Assistant Volleyball Coach Jenny Ei has been promoted to Head Coach. Ei has history of coaching club and high school Volleyball, she has not head coached at the college level.
The new coaches’ one-year contracts became effective July 1, 2008.

Contact Corey Thibodeaux, staff reporter, at cthibode@stumail.jccc.edu