The Central Ozarks Conference is a high school athletic conference represented by 14 schools in the southwest portion of Missouri . All schools are in the Ozarks state region. The Central Ozark Conference offers championships for girls in Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, Volleyball, and Wrestling. The Central Ozark Conference offers championships for boys Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, and Wrestling.
8-833: With the addition of the four former Ozark Conference schools for the 2024–25 school year, the conference is now split into two, seven-team divisions. Carl Junction joined the Central Ozark Conference in July 2016 after three decades in the Big 8 Conference (Missouri) . Joplin High School joined the Central Ozarks Conference in July 2018. Joplin moved from the Ozark Conference . The Central Ozark Conference Small division disbanded after
16-544: The 2017-18 school year. The remaining schools, except Bolivar High School , will join the Big 8 Conference (Missouri) . Bolivar applied to join the Ozark Conference in late December, but was rejected. They went independent for three seasons and were admitted into the Ozark Conference in July 2021 on a second attempt to join, replacing Central High School(Springfield), who went independent. On October 11, 2023, Carl Junction and Branson announced they would be joining
24-687: The 2023-24 school year with Hillcrest, Bolivar, and West Plains joining the Ozark Mountain Conference, Glendale, Kickapoo, Lebanon, and Waynesville joining the COC , Camdenton joining the CMAC , and Rolla, Parkview, and Central going independent. As of the 2017/18 School year Joplin HS has swapped conferences to the COC. Replacing Joplin is former OC member Central. Bolivar High School applied to join
32-572: The OC after the COC Small Division dissolved–leaving Bolivar as an independent school. November 5, 2019, it was announced that Bolivar's football program would enter the Ozark Conference in 2020, replacing Central. Central will become an independent in football but remain in the OC in other sports. Bolivar will be a "football only" school in the OC and their other sports programs will remain independent. As of March 2020 Bolivar has been approved as
40-626: The biggest in the region (only West Plains and Hillcrest are not Class 5 in basketball). The conference offers championships for girls in Basketball , Cross Country , Golf , Soccer , Softball , Swimming & Diving , Tennis , Track & Field , Volleyball , and Wrestling . In boys sports, the conference offers championships in Baseball , Basketball, Cross Country, Football , Golf, Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, and Wrestling. The conference features All five of
48-474: The conference sent invitations to the remaining Ozark Conference schools, of which Central , Lebanon , Parkview , and Waynesville accepted as full members. Ozark Conference The Ozark Conference was a high school athletic conference represented by 11 schools in the southwest portion of Missouri . As the name implies, all eleven schools are in the Ozarks region of the state and all are among
56-464: The new Ozark Mountain Conference for the 2024-25 school year. Shortly after, the conference elected to send invitations to Kickapoo and Glendale which they accepted and are to start playing in the conference in the 2024-25 school year. Because of the accepted invitations from Kickapoo and Glendale along with Hillcrest , West Plains , and Bolivar leaving for the new Ozark Mountain conference,
64-615: The public schools in Springfield and also the large central public schools in Rolla , Lebanon , and West Plains . Camdenton High School is the central school at the Lake of the Ozarks while Waynesville High School is the main high school for the military communities around the large Fort Leonard Wood army post, including Waynesville and St. Robert . The conference will disband after
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