The Missota Conference was an athletic conference for high schools in the greater Twin Cities area in Minnesota . The league disbanded following the 2013-14 school year.
20-397: The conference has had several teams come and go over the years. In the mid-1970s, team members were Burnsville, Rosemount, Lakeville, Prior Lake, Northfield, Farmington and Simley. Burnsville left in 1977 and was replaced by Apple Valley, which split off from Rosemount. New Prague joined in 1979, making it an eight-team conference. By the mid-1980s, Apple Valley and Rosemount had grown quite
40-697: A band program, with three band classes (two concert, one jazz), and two before-school jazz bands. Mahtomedi High School competes in the Minnesota High School League, and has athletic teams for fall, winter and spring sports. These teams include boys' and girls' soccer, boys' and girls' cross country, football, girls' swimming and diving, volleyball, boys' and girls' tennis, boys' and girls' basketball, gymnastics, Alpine and Nordic skiing, boys' and girls' hockey, wrestling, baseball, softball, boys' and girls' golf, boys' and girls' lacrosse, and boys' and girls' track and field. All teams play at both
60-537: A bit bigger than the other schools. Farmington, the smallest team, left the league and Red Wing joined. Since conference by-laws didn't allow schools to kick out a member, the Missota Conference members voted to disband (approximate date 1987). Six of the schools immediately formed a new conference and named it the Missota, without Apple Valley and Rosemount. Holy Angels and Benilde St. Margaret's joined in
80-456: A high ranking academic program. Among the top ranked 1,200 high schools in the nation, Mahtomedi placed 663rd. The chart below depicts Mahtomedi academic achievement in comparison to the Minnesota and United States averages for the 2006–2007 school year. Some other notable academic accomplishments include Mahtomedi's 513 students taking advanced placement classes, and, of the students who take
100-571: The AP exams after these classes, an 80% passing rate. About 90% of students continue on to college after graduation, and Mahtomedi High School has a dropout rate of 1%. In 2006, the Mahtomedi School District proposed a plan to create a magnet program within the high school. This program will focus mainly on technology and engineering, to hopefully increase enrollment. As of 2017, the proposition has not been implemented. Mahtomedi has
120-610: The 1997-98 school year; it had been a member until it joined the Tri-Metro Conference in the mid-1980s. On January 28, 2009, Hutchinson was accepted into the Wright County Conference, beginning with the fall of 2010. About the same time, Prior Lake announced it was leaving for the new South Suburban Conference, make up mostly of former Lake Conference schools, also effective in the fall of 2010. On July 15, 2009, Chaska and Chanhassen were admitted to
140-612: The 2006 and 2008 2A baseball state championships. Also in 2008, The Blake School won the Class A state title in boys Cross Country. Mahtomedi Senior High School Mahtomedi Senior High School is a four-year public high school located in Mahtomedi, Minnesota , United States. The school houses grades 9–12 with a total population of approximately 1,146 students. About 22% of this population are from surrounding districts due to open enrollment. The school colors are blue and gold, and
160-612: The Class A level. Since joining the Tri-Metro, DeLaSalle has won nine state championships in boys' basketball 1998, 1999, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), three in girls' basketball (2011, 2012, and 2013) and one in football (1999). In 2007, 2008, and 2009, the St. Croix Lutheran High School boys track & field team won the Minnesota True Team State Track and Field championship. St. Anthony won
180-652: The Metro East Conference (formerly known as the Classic Suburban Conference), having joined that conference at its inception in 2001 soon after being a founding member of the Metro Alliance in 1997. Prior to 1997, Mahtomedi was a member of the Tri-Metro Conference . The school was awarded the title "Exemplary High Performing Schools" along with being a profiled 2015 National Blue Ribbon School. Mahtomedi High School has
200-630: The Missota Conference beginning with the fall of 2010, effectively replacing Hutchinson and Prior Lake. Chanhassen High School is a new school in the East Carver County (Chaska) school district that was opened in the fall of 2009. During the 2012-13 school year the two biggest schools, Shakopee and Farmington, announced they would be leaving for the South Suburban Conference effective with the fall of 2014. Chaska and Chanhassen later announced that they would be leaving for
220-468: The Tri-Metro compete in basketball and football tournaments at the AA or AAA level. While for the past twenty years a majority of schools in the conference had been private, the conference make up has changed in the past decade, with Brooklyn Center and St. Anthony , Columbia Heights and Fridley being public schools. Conference membership has changed several times in recent years. Richfield High School joined
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#1732802027904240-570: The athletic teams are known as the Zephyrs . The district (district #0832) was created in 1870, and the original high school was built in 1930. In 1970 a new high school building was constructed several miles south east of the original building and this remains the current high school campus. Based on standardized test scores the State of Minnesota has awarded the school a five-star rating, the highest level that can be achieved. In 2006, Newsweek ranked
260-531: The changes will go into effect for the 2014-15 school year. Burnsville Rosemount Apple Valley Simley Lakeville Benilde-St. Margaret's Richfield Prior Lake Hutchinson Tri-Metro Conference The Tri-Metro Conference is a MSHSL -sanctioned athletic conference composed of schools found in the Twin Cities metro area. The conference competes in the majority of sports offered in the MSHSL. Most teams in
280-700: The conference for the Metro Alliance Conference , along with Mahtomedi High School , Mound Westonka High School , and Orono High School ; Farmington High School , which joined the Missota Conference , also departed at the same time. For the 1998–99 school year, St. Paul Academy , Visitation , and Mounds Park Academy left the Tri-Valley Conference to join the Tri-Metro, giving it the predominantly private school line-up had for years. Tri-Metro teams compete in
300-491: The conference in 2019. The Academy of Holy Angels , Fridley High School, and Columbia Heights High School joined the conference in 2014, the latter two forced by the disbanding of the North Suburban Conference . These additions were coupled with the withdrawal of six of the traditional private school members at the same time, following the 2013–14 school year, citing differences in enrollment size between
320-551: The following sports: tennis (girls and boys), soccer (girls and boys), football , cross country (girls and boys), basketball (girls and boys), volleyball (girls), track and field (girls and boys), softball , and baseball . They have had recent success at the state-level in competition. The Blake School won the MSHSL Challenge Cup in 2005, 2007, and 2009 as the most successful school in Minnesota at
340-406: The late 1980s to give the conference eight teams again. Shakopee, Chaska and Hutchinson joined in 1990, about the same time that Simley left the league, making it a 10-team conference. Lakeville left in 1993 and Chaska in 1994. Benilde left the league and Farmington rejoined the Missota in the 1997. Richfield joined the league in 1999, but left two years later. Farmington re-joined the conference for
360-600: The new Metro West Conference . The remaining four teams were unable to recruit new partners for the conference and the conference voted to disband after the 2013-14 season. Red Wing and Northfield applied to, and were accepted by the Big 9. New Prague applied to both the Metro West and Big 9 and were denied. They were accepted into the Wright County Conference. Holy Angels will join the Tri-Metro Conference. All of
380-483: The newer members and the smaller private schools. Before these shifts, Brooklyn Center and St. Anthony rejoined the conference in the 2006–07 school year. The Tri-Metro initially rejected the applications of St. Anthony and Brooklyn Center for membership before the MSHSL placed the schools in the conference. Previously, the conference underwent a major team shift in the late 1990s. For the 1997–98 school year, St. Anthony and Brooklyn Center, which had been members, left
400-488: The school #675 in its "List of the 1200 Top High Schools in America." The school has also made adequate yearly progress in compliance with No Child Left Behind standards. As of 2015 the school had a demographic of 91% Caucasian, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more races, 2% Hispanic or Latino, and 1% Native American. Finally, out of the total population, 9% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Mahtomedi competes in
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