Ceremony to remember Kyle Conrad, late Mifflin basketball coach, set
A “Celebration of Life” ceremony for former Gov. Mifflin basketball coach Kyle Conrad will be held Saturday, Oct. 15 at 3 p.m. at Gov. Mifflin Intermediate school. Doors open at 2:30.
Conrad, 39, succumbed following a long battle with cancer in September.
Family members, friends, coaches and colleagues will speak about Conrad’s life, most of which revolved basketball and his family: Wife Lauren and sons Logan and Carson.
He was head coach of the Mustangs for four seasons, from 2018-22. Some seven months after coaching his last high school game — a 54-51 win over Exeter — he perished.
Conrad was a 1,000-point scorer for the Mustangs, and later at Elizabethtown College. He returned to coach at his alma mater as an assistant and was named head coach for the 2018-19 season.
Throughout three rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatments over the last three years Conrad continued to coach and teach life lessons. He refused to give in to the pain or the fatigue, or to miss practices or games. He always put others before himself.
“I thought he was a warrior for doing what he did,” said Mason Woolwine, a senior forward last season.
That display of courage inspired his players.
“It was rough seeing him like that, losing all that weight,” said former guard Matt Gehris said. “The one thing I really respected about him is that he never missed a game. There were probably times where he was not feeling his best and he was right there on that bench, there for us.
“He was a fighter. (We knew) the chances were pretty slim that he was going to beat it, but all of us thought that if there was somebody that was gonna beat that three times it was gonna be him.”
For a profile of Kyle Conrad and his battle with cancer, click here.