6-524: The Dixie-Monon Athletic Conference was an IHSAA -sanctioned conference in Southern Indiana. The conference was formed as a merger between the Dixie and Southern Monon conferences in 1965, and by its third year had grown to 12 members. However, soon after, consolidation started chipping away at the conference, and it ended in 1974, as only three schools were left. This Indiana school-related article
12-517: 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 ) 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
18-585: 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
24-577: 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 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
30-455: 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,
36-511: 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 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
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