Former Conestoga Valley football and basketball standout Zac Kraft is coming home.
Pending school board approval, Kraft will succeed Kent Reigner as CV’s athletic director.
Reigner is retiring at the end of the school year after 35 years on the job.
Kraft, who went on to have a successful football career at Franklin & Marshall College, is a teacher in the Lancaster School District, and he’s spent the last several seasons as McCaskey’s assistant girls’ varsity basketball coach.
CV’s school board is set to meet June 11. If they approve him, Kraft will be headed back to his old stomping grounds.
Elsewhere around the Lancaster-Lebanon League:
Speaking of Conestoga Valley, a pair of senior football players have made their college choices:
Tyler Beiler, a wide receiver and defensive back, will attend Division 3 Bridgewater College in Virginia. Beiler caught a touchdown pass in the Tri-County All-Star Game last Saturday.
And Brad Herr will attend Division 2 West Chester, where’s expected to battle for a spot at inside linebacker. Herr did not receive any scholarship money, but he can earn scholarship money in the future.
Meanwhile, CV’s two-time All-State pick, wideout/defensive back Ty Bynum (that’s him on the left), will attend Milford Academy in New York for a year of prep school. He will play football for Milford in the fall. That’s where former Bishop McDevitt standout LeSean McCoy played before receiving a scholarship from the University of Pittsburgh.
* Dell Jackson has resigned his post as Donegal’s boys’ basketball coach. He spent the last seven seasons coaching the Indians.
That leaves two coaching openings in the L-L League boys’ ranks: Donegal and Elizabethtown, where the Bears must replace Jon Reichard, who stepped down after two years on the job.
* We’re down to one coaching vacancy in L-L League girls’ circles: Ephrata, which must replace Loren Souder, who stepped down after three seasons on the job.
