{"id":1421,"date":"2025-03-05T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:34:04","slug":"cavs-womens-basketball-complete-second-consecutive-undefeated-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2025\/03\/05\/cavs-womens-basketball-complete-second-consecutive-undefeated-regular-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs Women’s Basketball Complete Second Consecutive Undefeated Regular Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jay McCray<\/strong><\/p>\n

Basketball remains one of the core pieces to Kansas City sports, and we have to look <\/span>no further than the Lady Cavs for that same excellence. Over the last 2 seasons, head coach Ben Conrad has led the Lady Cavaliers to an incredible undefeated streak. So how does a team hold that level of consistency?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe lifeblood of any program is practice and how that\u2019s approached,\u201d Conrad,\u00a0 started. \u201cI think our consistency, in how we practice everyday, is probably the key factor in maintaining consistency.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The team\u2019s practice schedule led to a very fruitful outcome. <\/span>Team morale was a follow-up discussion, where Conrad explains how the team <\/span>cares for one another and enjoy their time together. He then went on to explain that in <\/span>years past, there have been times where that bond wasn\u2019t as strong and you could feel <\/span>it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thoughts came with this success. Namely, the fact that 4-year universities must <\/span>be reaching out to the basketball staff about players\u2019 availability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFour-year schools do a good job of knowing where the players are that can help them, so our players get pretty good exposure most years,\u201d Conrad responded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only players, but coaching opportunities must arise for Conrad as well, and he spoke volumes as to why he\u2019s staying with JCCC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great place to work and a great place to live, and most importantly, it\u2019s been a great place to raise my kids,\u201d Conrad said. \u201cJCCC has been very loyal to me over the years, and I think I\u2019m smart enough to know the grass is not always greener e<\/span>lsewhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The women\u2019s basketball program is firing on all cylinders. Through successful <\/span>coaching and morale, the team has seen outstanding results, sitting at #2 in the NJCAA <\/span>rankings. As the team looks to attempt a shot at another championship, Coach Conrad continues to build the program for student athletes by emphasizing hard work and determination.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is a great place to work and a great place to live, and most importantly, it\u2019s been a great place to raise my kids,\u201d Conrad said. \u201cJCCC has been very loyal to me over the years, and I think I\u2019m smart enough to know the grass is not always greener elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":1422,"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":[],"ppma_author":[124],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Messenger Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mhumph18\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/03\/2-28-25-Undefeated-Womens-Basketball--300x232.jpg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mhumph18\/","display_name":"Messenger Staff"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sports<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 5, 2025","modified":"Updated on March 5, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 5, 2025 12:34 pm","modified":"Updated on March 5, 2025 12:34 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\/03\/2-28-25-Undefeated-Womens-Basketball--scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","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=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}