{"id":1236,"date":"2025-02-19T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2025-02-19T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:49:12","slug":"cavs-wbb-coach-ben-conrad-reaches-500-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2025\/02\/19\/cavs-wbb-coach-ben-conrad-reaches-500-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs WBB Coach Ben Conrad Reaches 500 Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coach Ben Conrad speaks to the undefeated Cavs Women’s Basketball team. Photo by Vaughn Wheat<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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By Joseph Mccray<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lady Cavaliers sealed another win over Highland College, reaching the #2 seed in the NJCAA Division II rankings, but there\u2019s more to the win for Coach Ben Conrad. With the win, Conrad reached 500 career wins, with 442 of those wins being at Johnson County Community College.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese milestone wins have seemed to come late in the year, so most years, I\u2019m so locked in on our stretch run, I don\u2019t think I really feel anything,\u201d Conrad said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Conrad also highlighted his National Championship win from the 2014-2015 season as another of his favorite memories, believing it was his 300th win.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also took time to give appreciation for those who\u2019ve helped him along his coaching journey. While there were no specific names, he remains grateful to all who\u2019ve worked with him and played for him. When asked about the key element of being an exceptional coach, Conrad emphasized the importance of recruiting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNothing else matters if you don\u2019t have talent,\u201d Conrad said. \u201cEverything flows from that starting point.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With a monumental win and a full focus on the season, Conrad is looking to push his team into the playoffs once again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThese milestone wins have seemed to come late in the year, so most years, I\u2019m so locked in on our stretch run, I don\u2019t think I really feel anything,\u201d Conrad said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":1237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[76,78,77],"ppma_author":[124],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ben-conrad","tag-cavs","tag-jccc-womens-basketball"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Messenger Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mhumph18\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-2-14-25-Ben-Conrad-feature-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mhumph18\/","display_name":"Messenger Staff"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sports<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Ben Conrad<\/a>","Cavs<\/a>","JCCC Women's Basketball<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Ben Conrad<\/span>","Cavs<\/span>","JCCC Women's Basketball<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 19, 2025","modified":"Updated on February 19, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 19, 2025 1:38 pm","modified":"Updated on February 19, 2025 1:49 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":124,"user_id":1000,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhumph18","display_name":"Messenger Staff","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d550cfefcbdb3d51b5ca80ce32ea21defada2724e3cd6d8373f27c880e25be9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Messenger","last_name":"Staff","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-2-14-25-Ben-Conrad-feature-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}