New coaches introduced at Trustees meeting

Story by Corey Thibodeaux, reporter The Campus 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 will inherit 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 will be Benjamin Conrad, the only newcomer to the college. He coached women’s basketball as a head coach since 2002 at Des Moines Arena Community College then Upper Iowa University.

Assistant Volleyball Coach Jenny Ei will be 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 become effective July 1, 2008.