The War Eagle Conference is a 11-team high school athletic conference in Northwest Iowa. The schools are classified as 1A and 2A, the two smallest classes in Iowa. The conference is widely recognized as one of the best small school baseball conferences in the state, often sending multiple teams to the state tournament. The WEC has also been successful in boys basketball housing multiple state champions, the most recent being South O’Brien boys in 2015–16 as Class 1A state champions at a record of 25–3. Remsen St. Mary’s has been the most recent qualifiers the past two seasons (2016 and 2017)
16-682: After years of stability as a ten-team league, 2009 saw the league add Remsen-Union (formerly of the Western Valley Activities Conference ) and Hartley–Melvin–Sanborn (formerly a Siouxland Conference member). In 2010, Sergeant Bluff-Luton , the lone 3A school in the conference, left the conference to join the Missouri River Activities Conference , which contains four large schools in nearby Sioux City and two Council Bluffs schools. Spalding Catholic merged with Gehlen Catholic before
32-425: 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
48-567: 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
64-635: The 2013–14 school year. Trinity Christian of Hull took Spalding Catholic's spot in the schedule. The War Eagle Conference accepted Harris–Lake Park and Clay Central–Everly at the beginning of the 2014–15 and 2015–16 school years, respectively, after the dissolution of the Cornbelt Conference . Starting with the 2016–17 school year, Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn merged with Remsen-Union to form the MMCRU Royals. On March 11, 2019, Clay Central–Everly announced it would be closing its high school at
80-542: The 2023-2024 school year, and therefore would no longer be members of the War Eagle Conference. The conference offers the following sports: Western Valley Activities Conference The Western Valley Activities Conference is an athletic conference for small high schools in Western Iowa. Formed in 2008 from the merger of the longstanding Maple Valley Conference and Boyer Valley Conference ,
96-521: 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
112-427: 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
128-406: 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
144-878: 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
160-560: The end of that school year, effectively ceasing all athletics. Students are now sent to Spencer . On 20 September 2022, current Siouxland Conference member George-Little Rock applied for membership to the War Eagle Conference. The War Eagle Conference accepted the Mustangs on October 20, 2022. In October 2022, Unity Christian announced that their membership application to the Siouxland Conference had been accepted for
176-407: 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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#1732792964159192-580: The league now consists of 9 schools from the old Maple Valley Conference and Siouxland Christian. 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 the conference was founded with Onawa, Mapleton, Moville, Correctionville, Holstein, and Odebolt high schools. Kingsley joined
208-405: 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
224-404: 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
240-606: 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
256-615: 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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