The Indiana Crossroads Conference is an eight-school conference, with schools located in Hendricks , Marion , Morgan and Shelby counties, mostly consisting of smaller-to-medium public and private schools.
20-615: The latest conference changes have occurred with Lapel leaving 2014 and Park Tudor leaving the ICC in 2019. Cascade joined the conference to fill the vacancy left by Park Tudor. After four years in the conference, Cascade will leave the Indiana Crossroads Conference in 2024 to rejoin their west central Indiana rivals in the Western Indiana Conference . With this change, Covenant Christian will leave
40-722: A new athletic conference. After discussion and five schools voting to leave the Sagamore Conference, North Putnam announced on May 19, 2023 they will leave the Western Indiana Conference and join with five schools that separated from the Sagamore Conference , Crawfordsville, Frankfort , North Montgomery, Southmont, and Western Boone , to form the Monon Athletic Conference (MAC) that will take shape no later than
60-692: A new conference being joined by Western Indiana Conference member Indian Creek and the four public schools in the Indiana Crossroads Conference: Beech Grove , Monrovia , Speedway , and Triton Central . Members departing for the Monon Athletic Conference on July 1, 2025. Members departing for the Hoosier Legends Conference in 2026-27 *Co-champions This Indiana school-related article
80-477: A vacancy that Park Tudor left. The move leaves the Western Indiana Conference will 11 schools, dissolving the east–west divisions for team sports, except football, going to round robin play. In 2024-2025, Cascade was set to re-join the Western Indiana Conference when Covenant Christian joins the Indiana Crossroads Conference. Similarly, at this time, the four Putnam County schools were in discussions with Crawfordsville , North Montgomery , and Southmont to form
100-621: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Western Indiana Conference The Western Indiana Conference is the name of two IHSAA -sanctioned conferences based in West Central Indiana . The first formed as an eight-team league that formed as a basketball league in 1944 as the West Central Conference . The league started expanding in 1945 and changed its name to the Western Indiana Conference. With consolidation forcing many membership changes in
120-597: Is an eight-member IHSAA sanctioned athletic conference comprising 2A and 3A and sized schools in Clinton , Boone , Hendricks , and Montgomery Counties in Central Indiana. The Sagamore Conference was founded in 1966 in Lebanon, Indiana, with a meeting between school officials from Brownsburg , Carmel , Crawfordsville , Frankfort , Lebanon , and Noblesville . The founders selected the name "Sagamore" after
140-573: The Circle City Conference and join for the 2024-2025 academic year. Beech Grove Hornets (2) Cardinal Ritter Raiders (4) Park Tudor Panthers (19) Scecina Memorial (4) Monrovia Bulldogs (1) Indianapolis Lutheran (6) Triton Central (1) Speedway (2) This Indiana school-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to sports in Indiana
160-503: The IndyStar reported that Indian Creek would leave the WIC to following the 2025-2026 academic year to create a new league with Sagamore castaway Tri-West and the four public schools from the Indiana Crossroads Conference: Beech Grove , Monrovia , Speedway , and Triton Central . These moves collectively leave the Western Indiana Conference with 9 members. With Cascade's departure from
180-464: The 1970s (including all the Terre Haute public schools), the conference folded at four members in 1983. The second incarnation started in 1999, including four previous members (or their current incarnations) from the old conference, and three other schools from South Central Indiana. Its only change in membership in its first 16 years was in football, where South Vermilion played independently for
200-458: The 2007 and 2008 seasons before rejoining the conference. March 2014 marked a sea change for the conference, as what originally was an invite for Greencastle turned into inviting the remaining five teams of the West Central Conference to join. All seven WIC schools and all five WCC schools voted to expand the conference into 2015, making a 12 team, two division league. All 12 schools are within 30 miles of Interstate 70 or Interstate 69 . Prior
220-475: The 2026-2027 academic year (later announced as the 2025-2026 year as the first year). Following the move by North Putnam to the new athletic conference, Cascade elected to withdraw their future membership and join the MAC instead. Meanwhile, Greencastle followed suit in leaving the WIC for the Monon Athletic Conference. These moves collectively leave the Western Indiana Conference with 9 members. On May 7, 2024,
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#1732790262149240-659: The Abnaki Indian tribe's name for "chief". The conference remained stable until Carmel withdrew in 1973 to establish themselves with other schools in then-class AAA and Noblesville followed suit in 1979. This did not stop the Sagamore, however, as North Montgomery was added in 1975, Western Boone in 1981, and Southmont in 1984. Brownsburg departed in 1985. In 1995, the Sagamore executive council considered expansion. Several schools were mentioned but only two submitted written applications for membership. Starting in 1998,
260-499: The Conference, the current Cross-Over system will be eliminated and all conference schools will play each other in the regular season of boys’ and girls’ basketball, baseball, softball, football, volleyball, boys’ and girls’ soccer, and boys’ and girls’ tennis. Boys’ and girls’ swimming and diving, track and field, cross country, wrestling, and golf will still hold one-day conference tournaments. This list includes champions for both
280-444: The Sagamore Conference of their intent to separate from the Sagamore and form a new conference with a sixth member school to start as early as the 2024-2025 academic year but no later than the 2026-2027 academic year. Danville, Lebanon, and Tri-West will retain the Sagamore Conference name and history and will leave the conference with three member schools. In early 2024, it was announced that both Harrison and McCutcheon would join
300-411: The Sagamore was engaged in discussions with Danville to become the seventh member of the conference and Tri-West was contacted joined the Sagamore to bring the league to eight members. Formally announced in the winter of 1998–1999, the Sagamore conference expanded to eight members. Since then, the conference membership remained stable despite conference realignment around the west central Indiana region
320-523: The conference back to 12 teams retaining the divisions model. Since expansion to 12 teams, the conference membership has been less than stable due to long travel times and geographical issues spanning half of the state. After the 2018–2019 school year, Cascade departed from the Western Indiana Conference to join longtime rival and former West Central Conference member Monrovia in the Indiana Crossroads Conference . Cascade filled
340-520: The invitation to Greencastle and other WCC schools went out, Indian Creek was rumored to be considered as an expansion candidate but their invitation was rescinded by the conference in early 2014 due to expanding to 12 teams. Eventually, South Vermillion departed to rejoin the Wabash River Conference in 2016 leaving the conference at 11 teams. Indian Creek was extended an invitation as the replacement for SV in 2017 and accepted bringing
360-547: The old and new versions of the conference. Spit championships are denoted by an asterisk, East and West Division champions are annotated by an E and W, respectively, while the conference championship game winner is denoted by a C. With the green and gold divisions, Gold Division Champion is denoted by GO and the Green Division Champion is denoted by GR. http://www.bannergraphic.com/story/2071979.html Sagamore Conference (IHSAA) Sagamore Conference
380-498: The three remaining Sagamore schools, bringing conference membership to 5. This represents a dramatic shift in conference demographics, as both of the new schools are larger than the three remainders. It also represents a change in conference geography, as both Harrison and McCutcheon are located in West Lafayette, Indiana . On May 7, 2024, it was announced that Tri-West would depart the Sagamore Conference in 2026-27 and create
400-698: The witnessed the formation and disbandment of many different conferences. In 2023, serious discussions took place among the Sagamore schools outside of the Indianapolis metropolitan loop about forming a new athletic conference. Montgomery County schools had been in contact with Putnam County schools Cloverdale , Greencastle , North Putnam , and South Putnam about the formation of a new league. On May 10, 2023, citing enrollment and competitive balance, five Sagamore schools in Crawfordsville, Frankfort, North Montgomery, Southmont, and Western Boone notified
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