The Hoosier Crossroads Conference is a member conference of the Indiana High School Athletic Association . Teams first competed in the conference in the 2000-2001 school year. The HCC contains eight high schools in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Area . There are two schools in Hendricks County , one in Boone County , four in Hamilton County , and one in Marion County .
5-659: The conference started in 2000, as the West division of the Olympic Conference (Brownsburg, Hamilton Southeastern, Harrison, McCutcheon, and Noblesville) joined with two schools from the folding Rangeline Conference (Westfield and Zionsville) and one from the Mid-State Conference (Avon). Lafayette Jeff joined in 2004 from the North Central Conference , and Fishers joined upon reopening in 2006. In December 2012,
10-595: The HCC decided to admit the Franklin Central Flashes into the HCC beginning the 2018-2019 school year. All schools are 6A in football, 3A in soccer, and 4A in all other class sports. Full members Other conference IHSAA State Champions Olympic Conference (IHSAA) The Olympic Conference was an IHSAA -sanctioned conference located within Delaware , Fayette , Jay , and Madison counties. The conference
15-657: The Indianapolis-area schools met and voted to cut ties with the Tippecanoe County schools after the 2013-14 school year due to transportation costs, travel time, differences in school size and competitive balance. The Lafayette area schools joined the North Central Conference . In March 2017, the conference schools met to decide on letting an eighth member into the conference, Franklin Central . On March 15, 2017
20-434: The state. While hosting ten schools in two divisions at its largest, the conference spent the 2000s with five members, then four after Huntington North joined the North Central Conference . With the closing of Anderson Highland after the 2009-2010 school year, as well as the possibility that Muncie Southside will close and be consolidated into Muncie Central in 2011, the conference decided to disband. Connersville joined
25-509: Was formed in 1971 by second (and third) high schools from Anderson , Kokomo , and Muncie , and also included suburban Indianapolis schools that grew too large for their conferences at the time. Many suburban schools ended up outgrowing the Olympic as well, with former members now in the Metropolitan and Hoosier Crossroads " superconferences ," as the two contain many of the largest schools in
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