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18-691: The Rolling Valley Conference is a high school athletic conference in west central Iowa. The league began play in the 2013–14 season. Members include five former members of the Western Valley Activities Conference , five former members of the Rolling Hills Conference , and one former member of the West Central Activities Conference . Five members of the conference came from the Western Valley Activities Conference , which

36-425: A 10–1 vote, with only Woodbury Central opposing and Lawton–Bronson abstaining. The new 19-team league would work together not only in athletics, but in music and speech as well, as the former BVAC had. In addition most of the old rivalries were kept intact by splitting the conference into two divisions with the old Maple Valley basically making up the north and the former Boyer Valley plus Whiting and West Monona forming

54-567: 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 the league, but it would join forces with AvoHa

72-464: The 2012–13 school year, however the nature of the conference had changed in recent years, as the once compact conference had become spread out due to the addition of three private schools in the Des Moines area. Four of the league's members decided to explore the option of forming a new conference with other similar schools. Coon Rapids–Bayard, which had become the smallest and most western member of

90-521: The 8-player division for years. The combined rosters, competing as KP-RV, allowed the team to qualify for an 11-player division. In October 2023, the school districts agreed to combine all athletic teams under the KP-RV name. This agreement was then severed in April 2024, due to Kingsley-Pierson parents pressure on the school board to end it. The agreement will drop for all sports except for football following

108-820: The Christian schools) joined the Bluegrass Conference in 2013. Charter Oak–Ute began sharing with Maple Valley–Anthon–Oto of the Western Valley Activities Conference during the 2017–18 season. Western Valley Activities Conference The Western Valley Activities Conference was formed in 2008 with the merger of the Maple Valley Conference and the Boyer Valley Conference. The Maple Valley Conference traces its history to 1931 when

126-533: The West Central Activities Conference following the departures of Paton-Churdan and Glidden–Ralston was also included in the proposed conference. Paton-Churdan was not originally included in the new league, but petitioned to join and were accepted. With Paton-Churdan leaving the conference and Walnut closing its high school, the Rolling Hills Conference played its last season in 2012–13. The four remaining members ( Orient-Macksburg and

144-554: 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 the time of the merger 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. The Boyer Valley Conference had been formed around 1960 and had many schools to consolidation over

162-406: The conference, and starting in 2010, Galva–Holstein began sharing all high school functions and classes with nearby Schaller-Crestland High School, forming the new Ridge View High School, which remained in the conference. The conference, which had spanned more than 160 miles, lost many members for the 2013–14 school year. Logan-Magnolia and IKM-Manning, the two largest schools in the southern half of

180-802: The conference, moved to the Western Iowa Conference . Meanwhile, the other former Boyer Valley Conference members are joining with Coon Rapids–Bayard and five members of the Rolling Hills Conference to form the Rolling Valley Conference . Whiting moved to the Frontier Conference of Nebraska. In 2017, Charter Oak–Ute students returned to the conference by entering into a whole grade sharing agreement with Maple Valley–Anthon–Oto. In August 2023, Kingsley-Pierson and River Valley school districts agreed to combine teams for football, with both having competed in

198-407: The end of the 2023-2024 athletic season. 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 the conference have a deep-rooted history together. Most of the schools have been with the conference throughout its history. The Western Iowa Conference

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216-618: The league when it was founded in the late 1970s. Adair–Casey and Coon Rapids–Bayard were founding members of the new West Central Activities Conference around the same time and Adair–Casey joined the Rolling Hills in 1996. Glidden–Ralston and Paton-Churdan were added to the West Central at that time as replacements for Adair–Casey and other schools. In 2007, Paton-Churdan joined the Rolling Hills and Glidden–Ralston followed in 2009. The Rolling Hills Conference included nine members by

234-405: 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 a 12-team conference until after

252-404: The south. 2009 1A wrestling- Logan-Magnolia 2009 2A girls basketball- IKM-Manning 2011 2A girls basketball- OABCIG 2017 2A boys track and field- Kingsley–Pierson/Woodbury Central 2019 2A football- OABCIG 2020 1A football- OABCIG After the 2008 season, Odebolt–Arthur and Battle Creek–Ida Grove entered into a full-grade sharing agreement. Following the 2009 season, Remsen-Union left

270-606: The years. After peaking at 12 schools, the conference was left with only eight in its final year of 2007: Ar-We-Va, Boyer Valley, Charter Oak–Ute, IKM, Logan-Magnolia, Manning, West Harrison, and Woodbine. With IKM and Manning entering a sport-sharing agreement, it looked like the right time for many of its members to find a new home. In 2008, the Maple Valley Conference agreed to merge with the Boyer Valley Activities Conference by

288-478: Was an odd mix of schools, however, as the conference spanned over 160 miles. Also, the conference included schools with a wide range of sizes with the majority of the former Boyer Valley schools much smaller than most of the Maple Valley schools. Five other league members were part of the Rolling Hills Conference before the formation of the league. The forerunners of CAM and EHK-Exira were charter members of

306-560: Was formed in 2008 by the merger of the Maple Valley Conference and the Boyer Valley Conference . All five members of the Rolling Valley were members of the Boyer Valley Conference before the merger. The Boyer Valley league dated to the 1960s and included as many as twelve schools at one time in its history. With the number of members dwindling, they looked into a merger with the Maple Valley Conference. The league

324-615: 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 the Southwest Iowa Conference then were AvoHa (Avoca), Griswold, Missouri Valley, and Oakland. Competition in

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