The Boyer Valley Conference was a high school athletic conference in west central Iowa. It merged with the Maple Valley Conference for the 2008 season to form the Western Valley Activities Conference .
15-622: The Maple Valley Conference was a high school sports league in western Iowa. Most of its members are classified as 1A, the smallest grouping of schools in Iowa. However, a few of the schools compete in the next-largest class, 2A. The conference was formed in 1931 (93 years ago) ( 1931 ) and existed for 77 years before merging with the Boyer Valley Conference in 2008 (16 years ago) ( 2008 ) . The Maple Valley Conference traces its history to 1931 when
30-552: A 12-team conference until after the 1981–82 school year. At that time Elk Horn–Kimballton and Walnut dropped out to join the Rolling Hills Conference. Following the 1982–83 school year, Iowa Deaf dropped out making the WIC a 9-team conference. After the 1985–86 school year, Carson–Macedonia dropped out, but would eventually join with Oakland to form Riverside. Then following the 1987–88 school year Shelby-Tennant left
45-642: A new home. The league consolidated with the Maple Valley Conference to form the Western Valley Activities Conference . The Western Valley Activities Conference proved to be a poor fit for many member schools. In 2013, just five years after it began competition, all of the former Boyer Valley Conference members left the league for other conferences. The former Boyer Valley members now live on in one of two conferences. IKM-Manning and Logan-Magnolia now compete in
60-481: The 10-team Western Iowa Conference . Ar-We-Va, Boyer Valley, Charter Oak-Ute, West Harrison, and Woodbine are founding members of the Rolling Valley Conference , which began play in 2013–14. Western Iowa Conference The Western Iowa Conference is a high school athletic conference made up of smaller 1A and bigger 2A schools located mostly in the greater Council Bluffs area. The teams in
75-532: The 1978 Class 1A State Football title. Woodbury Central won the state title in football in 1980, the state track title in 1963, and the softball title in 2002. Lawton-Bronson claim the 1A track title in 1991 and the 1925 state basketball title. West Monona won the 1964 Girls Basketball Championship and the 2005 men's golf title (Coached by Josh Madsen. Anthon won the 1949 Fall Baseball State title. Boyer Valley Conference The Boyer Valley Conference had been formed around 1960 and had many schools consolidate over
90-479: The 1A Girls Basketball Championship in Des Moines. The league continued to operate until its final year of 2007 when the conference was left with only eight schools: Ar-We-Va, Boyer Valley, Charter Oak-Ute, IKM, Logan-Magnolia, Manning, West Harrison, and Woodbine. With IKM and Manning set to enter a sport-sharing agreement for the 2008–09 school year, it looked like the right time for many of its members to find
105-561: The Southwest Iowa Conference then were AvoHa (Avoca), Griswold, Missouri Valley, and Oakland. Competition in the new 12-team conference began in the summer of 1971 with baseball and softball tournaments. No regular season schedules were played during the 1971–72 school year, but girls and boys basketball tournaments and the traditional wrestling tournament were held in early 1972. Many changes have occurred since then to turn today’s WIC into an 8-team league. It remained
120-582: The conference have a deep-rooted history together. Most of the schools have been with the conference throughout its history. The Western Iowa Conference was organized in 1972 through the merger of the former Tri-County and Southwest Iowa Conferences. Members of the Tri-County Conference at that time were Carson–Macedonia, Elk Horn–Kimballton, Iowa School for the Deaf, Shelby-Tennant, Treynor, Tri-Center (Neola), Underwood, and Walnut. The members of
135-498: The conference was founded with Onawa, Mapleton, Moville, Correctionville, Holstein, and Odebolt high schools. Kingsley joined the conference in 1944 and over time, the conference grew to 12 members so that by 2008 the conference included Odebolt-Arthur, Battle Creek-Ida Grove, Galva-Holstein, Woodbury Central, Kingsley-Pierson, Remsen-Union , Lawton-Bronson, Westwood, River Valley, Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto, West Monona, and Whiting. Due to declining enrollment at many schools in western Iowa,
150-454: The late 1980s. Schleswig won the Class A State Football Championship in 1984 and 1988. By 1990, Dunlap was sharing sports with Dow City-Arion and Irwin-Kirkman was sharing with Manilla. Before long, these schools officially consolidated. They became known as Boyer Valley and IKM, respectively. In 1990, Logan-Magnolia won the Class A State Football Championship. More change was on the horizon for
165-499: The league decided to explore options for expansion in 2008. The Boyer Valley Conference , which had recently gone through a series of mergers, reached out to the conference regarding a merger. Following a 10-1 favorable vote from the Maple Valley schools, the Western Valley Activities Conference was officially formed. Dating back to the 1920s, OA-BCIG (then Ida Grove), has been one of the strongest women's basketball programs in
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#1732801239042180-417: The league, but it would join forces with AvoHa a few years later to form what is now known as AHST. Finally, for the 1990–91 school year, Audubon joined the WIC to make it the 8-team league. The league saw a change in membership for the first time in over two decades when Logan–Magnolia and IKM–Manning joined from the Western Valley Activities Conference for the 2013–14 season. Griswold left in 2018-19 for
195-488: The league, though. Schleswig left the conference in 1993 to consolidate with Denison, who went on to join the Hawkeye Ten Conference . Then, East Monona closed its high school and the district was eventually dissolved by the state in 1998. In 2002, Manning won the Class A State Football Championship and in 2006 IKM won it. The League's seminal moment may have come in 2005 when Charter Oak-Ute defeated IKM for
210-601: The state. The school's lineage includes 20 trips to the state tournament, four state championships (including the 2011 state title) and two runner-up finishes. Additionally, Odebolt-Arthur won four championships in cross country in the 1960s and 1970s, Battle Creek won two state softball titles, and Ida Grove holds two state titles in track & field. Ridge View also boasts a strong tradition in women's basketball, with 14 state appearances. Kingsley-Pierson boasts state titles in boys' golf (1987), boys' track & field (1978), and softball (1966 and 1967). Eastwood, now River Valley, won
225-718: The years. For much of its history, the Boyer Valley Conference consisted of members in West Harrison in Mondamin, Woodbine, Dunlap, Schleswig, Charter Oak, Dow City, Irwin, Logan, Ar-We-Va in Westside, and East Monona in Moorhead. In 1977, Manilla won the 1A State Football Championship. In the early 1980s, Manilla joined the league, followed by Manning a few years later. This put the league at 12 schools in
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