Roy Conrad grew up participating in all the sports around town.  His main sport was track and field, as it was the only IHSAA sport at the time, even before basketball on a state level.  However, basketball was very popular in and round the west central part of Indiana.  Conrad won the 1907 IHSAA state broad jump with a record jump of 21-4 1/5, that stood as one of two 21-foot jumps for 15 years.