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 the 1970s (including all the Terre Haute public schools), the conference folded at four members in 1983.
15-425: 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 the 2007 and 2008 seasons before rejoining the conference. March 2014 marked a sea change for the conference, as what originally
30-721: 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
45-860: Is composed of Benton, Blackford, Boone, Clinton, Carroll, Delaware, Fountain, Grant, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Jay, Madison, Marion, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, Randolph, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Vermillion, Warren, and White counties. The southern district is composed of Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur, Dubois, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Gibson, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, Knox, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Morgan, Ohio, Orange, Owen, Perry, Pike, Posey, Ripley, Rush, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Sullivan, Switzerland, Union, Vanderburgh, Vigo, Warrick, Washington and Wayne counties. Select board of directors seats are reserved for female, minority, and urban representatives from special Northern and Southern Districts, as well as one private school representative. In
60-439: Is the arbiter of interscholastic competition among public and private high schools in the U.S. state of Indiana . Member schools are classified into four classes based on enrollment, ranging from the smallest, 1A, to the largest, 4A. Some sports provide specific classification, such as football (six classes) and soccer (three). The IHSAA's boys and girls basketball tournaments, sometimes dubbed Hoosier Hysteria , are some of
75-678: 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 the Conference,
90-467: 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,
105-511: 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
120-424: 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
135-530: 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 a vacancy that Park Tudor left. The move leaves
150-560: 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 West Central Conference (Indiana) The West Central Conference
165-585: The oldest and best-attended state basketball tournaments in the United States. The IHSAA is divided into three board of director districts: northern, central, and southern. These districts elect three members each to the board of directors. The northern district is composed of Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington, Jasper, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Miami, Newton, Noble, Porter, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke, Steuben, Wabash, Wells and Whitley counties. The central district
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#1732797458190180-510: The regular season, most of the member-schools' sports activities are governed by Indiana's high school athletic conferences. Some conferences only offer select sports, while others include all. Some schools maintain independence in certain sports, electing not to compete in a conference. Some smaller sports are governed by other organizations in Indiana. For example, boys' ice hockey, which has fewer participating teams than other sports statewide,
195-571: Was an IHSAA -sanctioned conference formed in 1970. The conference disbanded in 2015, as all five members joined the Western Indiana Conference . Monrovia 2015 Football (2A) This Indiana school-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to sports in Indiana is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Indiana High School Athletic Association The Indiana High School Athletic Association ( IHSAA )
210-477: 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 the invitation to Greencastle and other WCC schools went out, Indian Creek
225-486: 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 the conference back to 12 teams retaining
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