John Bainbridge

Assistant Football Coach - Offensive Guards & Centers

John Bainbridge will enter his eighth year of coaching at Carnegie Mellon in 2009. The 2006 season marked his return to the staff after a two-year leave. From 2000-2003, Bainbridge coached the Tartans offensive tackles and tight ends. Since his return in 2006, he has coached the offensive centers and guards.

Bainbridge left the Tartans after the 2003 season to become the head coach at Southmoreland High School, his alma mater, where he served as the offensive coordinator in 1999. After his one-year stint as head coach in 2004 he went to Seton Hill University in 2005 as an assistant coach and coached the offensive line.

From 1990-1998, he served as the head coach at Greater Latrobe High School. He has also served as the head coach at Canon-McMillan and Bishop McCort High Schools.

Bainbridge, a 1976 graduate of St. Vincent College, is employed as a social studies teacher at Latrobe Junior High School. He and his wife, Sue, have two daughters, Caitlin (24) and Maura (18), and reside in Latrobe.

Chris Conrad

Assistant Football Coach - Offensive Tackles & Tight Ends

Chris Conrad enters his second season on the Carnegie Mellon staff as the offensive tackles and tight ends coach.

Conrad came to Carnegie Mellon following an eight-year stint coaching the offensive and defensive lines at Shaler Area High School. He also served as the throwing coach for the Titans’ track and field teams for five seasons.

Prior to coaching at Shaler, Conrad had a three-year career in the National Football League. He was drafted in the third round, 66th overall, by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1998.

The native of Fullerton, California attended Fresno State, where he was a four-year letter winner, 1994-97, as a member of the Bulldogs offensive line. His senior year, Conrad was named first-team all WAC as a left tackle.

Conrad received his bachelor’s degree of sports science in 2002 from the University of Americas in Daphne Alabama in sport coaching and management.

Conrad currently is a business owner of a mobile auto detailing company in Wexford, Pa. called Steel City Mobile Detail. He and his wife, Stephanie, have one child Michael, and currently reside in Wexford.

Pat Johnston

Assistant Football Coach - Defensive Line

Pat Johnston is in his 15th year as Carnegie Mellon’s defensive line coach. Johnston, a former All-American at Westminster College, originally served as the Tartans’ defensive line coach from 1989-91 and 1994-96.

A North Hills native, Johnston graduated from Avalon High School where he was a four-year letterman. At Westminster, he was a four-year starter at offensive tackle and received honorable mention All-American honors. He was also named Pittsburgh Press All-District and All-NAIA District 18. As a senior in 1970, he helped lead the Titans to the NAIA national title. In 1983, he was named to the Westminster All-Time Football Team.

Johnston earned his bachelor’s degree in history education from Westminster in 1971. He received a master’s degree in education from Penn State University in 1974.

Johnston retired from teaching at Fox Chapel High School in 2008, where he had also coached football, wrestling and track.

He and his wife, Mary, have three children: Ryan, Sean and Shannon.

Greg Mihalik

Assistant Football Coach - Running Backs

Greg Mihalik will begin his second season on the Carnegie Mellon staff coaching the running backs.

Mihalik began his coaching career as an assistant at Slippery Rock University from 1993-95. He then moved on to be an assistant coach at Eastlake North and Nordonia High School in Ohio. In 1997, he joined the staff at Hampton High School. The following year Mihalik was promoted to head coach and compiled a 60-44 mark in 11 seasons, earning two conference championships and six appearances in the playoffs. In his third year at the helm he led the team to its first playoff win in school history and was named Tribune Review North High School Football Coach of the Year.

Mihalik graduated from Slippery Rock University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education. He received a master’s degree in physical education and athletic administration from Slippery Rock in 1995. He currently teaches Health and Physical Education at Hampton.

He and his wife, Cheri, have two children, Gregory (8) and Jessica (5), and currently reside in Cranberry Township.

Donnie Militzer

Assistant Football Coach - Outside Linebackers

Donnie Militzer enters his fourth year on the Carnegie Mellon staff. Militzer will serve as the inside linebackers coach in 2009.

Militzer has four years of coaching experience on the high school level. He began coaching at Canevin Catholic High School where he spent three seasons coaching the secondary and wide receivers. After his three-year stint at Canevin, he coached the secondary and running backs at Peters Township High School during the 2005 season.

Militzer graduated from Robert Morris in 2004 with an elementary education degree. He is currently resides in Dormont.

Jeff Simmons

Assistant Football Coach - Wide Receivers

Entering his fourth season on the Carnegie Mellon staff is Jeff Simmons, who will coach the wide receivers.

Simmons is the grandson of former Carnegie Mellon University football coach Chuck Klausing. Klausing later coached at Kiski Prep where Simmons was his quarterback, winning the Inter-Scholastic Prep School League his senior year. Simmons then played his collegiate career at Slippery Rock University from 1994-1997 as a quarterback.

Simmons and his grandfather continue to coach at the Team Klausing Wing-T Football Camps each summer throughout the United States. The camp promotes team skills, life skills and team leadership. Simmons has also co-authored two books with his grandfather.

Simmons’ coaching resume includes a high school quarterback and defensive secondary coach at Kiski Prep, and quarterbacks coach at Seneca Valley, Gateway and Shaler High School.

Simmons currently sells football field equipment for Gilman Gear. He and his wife, Colleen, reside in Penn Hills and have a two-year-old daughter Hayden and one-year-old son Luc.