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30-615: For the conference in Iowa, see Tri-Rivers Conference . [REDACTED] The Tri-River Conference in Indiana. The Tri-River Conference , established around 1965, was a seven-member IHSAA -sanctioned conference located within Clay , Greene , Morgan , and Sullivan counties in Indiana . It was named for the southern Eel , White , and Wabash rivers which flow through

60-643: A 5-year hiatus in the Upper Mississippi League. Coming with East Buchanan from the Upper Mississippi was Edgewood–Colesburg and Maquoketa Valley (Delhi). Starmont (former independent) joined the Tri-Rivers in 1974–75. Jesup (formerly in the Cedar-Wapsie league) joined the conference in 1987-88. In 1989–90, Center Point began 'whole sharing' with Urbana bringing Urbana into the conference as part of

90-767: A game in college, and was a first-round pick of the 1974 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons . He played four seasons with the Pistons. Eberhard is a member of the Iowa High School Basketball Hall of Fame, as well as the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Robert Gallery played for the East Buchanan Buccaneers and graduated from East Buchanan High School in Winthrop, Iowa. He played college football at

120-682: 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

150-549: A vacancy that Park Tudor left. The move leaves 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

180-844: The Big East Conference , and expanded the Tri-Rivers to 13 teams. Coming from the disbanded Big East were Bellevue Marquette, Calamus–Wheatland, Clinton Prince of Peace, Easton Valley (Preston), Lisbon and Midland (Wyoming). Also placed in the Tri-Rivers was Cedar Valley Christian (CVC) of Cedar Rapids, which began competing in 2011–12 as an independent, but had been seeking conference affiliation. The resulting Tri-Rivers conference split itself into two divisions: West (the remaining original members plus Lisbon) Alburnett, Central City, East Buchanan, Lisbon, Maquoketa Valley, North Linn and Springville, and East (former Big East members plus CVC) Bellevue Marquette, Calamus–Wheatland, Clinton Prince of Peace, CVC, Easton Valley and Midland. In 2017–18, when

210-580: 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

240-566: The 1953–54 season, reducing the Linn County league to 7 schools. The league would play its 4th and final season in 1954–55. Beginning in 1955–56, the Linn County league was succeeded by the 7-member All-Ac (All Activities) league. The new league was formed by 5 of the 7 remaining Linn County league schools: Alburnett, Center Point, Central City, Troy Mills and Walker, joined by Coggon and by Winthrop, from Buchanan County. (Palo and Viola took different paths and their high schools would both close by

270-512: The 2006–07 school year, Anamosa and CPU (then 2 of the conference's 3 largest schools) left for the WaMaC where they would be competing against schools closer to their own size. At that point the smaller 10-member Tri-Rivers conference reverted to a single-division format. A 2012 order from the Iowa Department of Education would force a realignment of conferences in eastern Iowa. In anticipation of

300-523: The 2007 and 2008 seasons before rejoining the conference. March 2014 marked a sea change for the conference, as what originally 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

330-472: 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,

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360-493: The Conference, 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

390-698: The Stormin' Pointers. Center Point and Urbana (CPU) officially merged in 1993-94. Jesup left the league after the 1997–98 school year for the North Iowa Cedar League . In 2003–04, the Tri-Rivers expanded to 12 with the addition of Anamosa, Cascade, and Monticello from a struggling Big Bend Conference. At that point the conference was split into two divisions: River (larger schools) Anamosa, Cascade, CPU, Maquoketa Valley, Monticello and Starmont, and Valley (smaller schools) Alburnett, Central City, East Buchanan, Edgewood–Colesburg, North Linn and Springville. After

420-5884: The TRC and SWIAC 1992-2010. Played concurrently in the TRC and SWIAC 1968-2010. Played concurrently in the TRC and WIC throughout membership Played concurrently in the TRC and SWIAC 1974-2010. School was known as Dugger before 1965. Played concurrently in the TRC and SWIAC throughout membership. Membership timeline [ edit ] [REDACTED] References [ edit ] ^ "Metro roundup: Tri-River Conference to disband" . 12 June 2009. Resources [ edit ] IHSAA Conferences IHSAA Directory v t e Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) Boys' sports Baseball Basketball ( Championship ) Cross country Football ( large school , small school ) Golf Soccer Swimming & diving Tennis Track and field Wrestling Girls' sports Basketball Cross country Golf Gymnastics Soccer Softball Swimming & diving Tennis Track and field Volleyball Athletic conferences Allen County Blue Chip Central Indiana Circle City Conference Indiana Duneland Eastern Indiana (Southern) Great Lakes Greater Indianapolis Greater South Shore Hoosier Hoosier Crossroads Hoosier Heartland Hoosier Heritage Hoosier Hills Hoosier North Hoosier Plains Indiana Crossroads Metropolitan Mid-Eastern Mid-Hoosier Mid-Indiana Football Mid-Southern Mid-State Midwest North Central Northeast Corner Northeast Eight Northern Indiana Northern Lakes Northwest Crossroads Ohio River Valley Patoka Lake Pioneer Pocket Porter County Sagamore Southern Southern Indiana Southern Roads Southwest Football Southwest Indiana Summit Three Rivers (Northern) Tri-Eastern Wabash River Western Indiana IHSAA Independents Disbanded conferences Adams Bartholomew-Shelby County Benton Big Blue River Big 4 Big Eight Blackford Blue River Boone Brown Calumet Athletic Capital District Carroll Cass Central Suburban Clark Classic Clay Clinton Daviess Dearborn Decatur DeKalb Delaware Dixie Dixie-Monon East Central Eastern Indiana (Northern) Eastern Wabash Valley Elkhart Fayette Fort Wayne City Fountain Franklin Fulton Gibson Grant Greene Hamilton Hancock Harrison Henry Howard Huntington Indiana H.S. Football Indiana Lake Shore Indianapolis Public Jackson Jasper Jay Jefferson Johnson Kankakee Valley Knox Kosciusko LaGrange Lake Athletic Lake-Porter Lake Suburban Laughery Valley Lawrence Little 4 Little 7 Little 8 Lost River Marion Marshall Martin Miami Mid-Central Mid-Indiana Midland Mississinewa Valley Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Noble Northeastern Indiana Northern Indiana Valley Northern State Northland Northwest Hoosier Northwestern Olympic Orange Owen Parke Patoka Valley Perry Posey Prairie Putnam Randolph Rangeline Ripley Rush South Central South Lake Michigan Southeastern Indiana Southern Monon Spencer Starke State Corner Steuben Sullivan Three Rivers (Southern) Tiny Ten Tippecanoe Tippecanoe Valley Tipton Tri-City League Tri-County (Central) Tri-County (Northern) Tri-County (Southern) Tri-County (Western) Tri-River Union Vermillion Vigo Wabash Warren Warrick Washington Wayne Wells West Central Western Indiana Small High School White White River White River Valley Whitewater Valley Whitley Conference rosters List of high school athletic conferences in Indiana Detailed lists Allen County – Metropolitan Mid-Eastern – Northwestern Ohio River Valley – Western Indiana Independent City championships Evansville (SIAC) Fort Wayne (SAC) Gary Indianapolis South Bend (NIAC) Cross-conference tournaments Christian Academy Tournament Columbus Christian Tournament Gibson County Toyota Teamwork Classic Indianapolis City Tournament Madison County Tournament Perry-Spencer County Classic Shawe Memorial Tournament Wabash Valley Classic Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tri-River_Conference&oldid=1220027151 " Categories : Indiana high school athletic conferences High school sports conferences and leagues in

450-638: The United States Indiana High School Athletic Association disestablished conferences Hidden category: Pages using the EasyTimeline extension Tri-Rivers Conference The Tri-Rivers Conference is a high school conference in eastern Iowa sponsoring athletic competition, as well as speech and music activities. Formed in 1967, the conference has enjoyed long-term stability while enduring periods of significant change over its 50-plus year history. With

480-633: The University of Iowa and professional football for the Oakland Raiders , Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots . Western Indiana Conference 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

510-661: The annual Linn County basketball tournament, first played in 1929–30. High schools competing throughout most of the 1930s, 40s and 50s included Alburnett, Center Point, Central City, Coggon, Ely, Lisbon, Mt.Vernon, Palo, Springville, Toddville, Troy Mills, Viola and Walker. These 13 schools were all located outside the Cedar Rapids-Marion urban area and the high schools generally had significantly smaller enrollments than their urban counterparts. In January 1951, 8 schools, Alburnett, Center Point, Central City, Palo, Toddville, Troy Mills, Viola and Walker, joined together to form what

540-492: The changes Starmont and Edgewood–Colesburg moved to the Upper Iowa Conference beginning with the 2013–14 school year. When the state order was finalized, its changes took effect beginning with the 2013–14 school year and locked schools into the state-dictated conference alignments for 4 years. The order moved Cascade and Monticello from the Tri-Rivers to the newly formed River Valley Conference . The order dissolved

570-511: The conference back to 12 teams retaining 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

600-580: The conference bringing membership of the Tri-Rivers conference to 16 teams. The conference has advanced at least three athletes to the pros: Al Eberhard played for the Springville Orioles, and graduated from Springville High School, located in Springville, Iowa . Eberhard attended Missouri University from 1972–74 and played with the Missouri Tigers. A 6'6" power forward, he averaged 16.9 points

630-531: The early 1960s.) In early 1957, superintendents of the 12 non-metro schools in Linn County voted to not hold the boys and girls county basketball tournaments in 1957–58 and to drop the county music festival as well; both examples of county-based institutions giving way to conference-based ones. In 1959–60, the new Linn-Mar (Marion) high school joined the All-Ac bringing it to 8 schools, and in 1960–61, Winthrop, Aurora and Quasqueton merged to form East Buchanan, bringing

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660-462: The fall of 1964. Center Point joined the Pinicon beginning with the 1965 season, and Springville joined for 1966, bringing the football league membership to 8, 5 of them active members of the All-Ac conference. The fall of 1966 would be the third and final year of the Pinicon as the soon-to-be-formed Tri-Rivers conference would include football and begin play in the fall of 1967. 1966–67 would also be

690-458: The final year of the All-Ac. Coggon, Troy Mills and Walker remained a part of the league, but were playing their first year of competition as North Linn. And Linn-Mar was competing in both the All-Ac and East Central Iowa (ECI) league for one season in preparation for a complete move to the ECI the following year. The combined effect was a net loss of 3 teams, leading the All-Ac to reconfigure and reemerge

720-541: The following season as the Tri-Rivers Conference. The Tri-Rivers first season of athletic competition was 1967–68. The new conference included 5 teams from the former All-Ac that represented 8 of the 13 teams that had played basketball together since at least the late 1920s: Alburnett (and Toddville), Central City, Center Point, North Linn (Coggon, Troy Mills and Walker) and Springville. East Buchanan (Winthrop) returned to join its former All-Ac competitors following

750-510: The invitation to Greencastle and other WCC schools went out, Indian Creek 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

780-431: The later two communities into the league. East Buchanan would leave after the 1961–62 season, but Springville joined in 1962–63 keeping league membership at 8. During the 1960s, as high school football's popularity rapidly grew, Central City, Coggon and Linn-Mar (All-Ac members with early football programs), joined with Lincoln (Stanwood), Midland (Wyoming) and Olin to form the Pinicon football conference, beginning play in

810-406: The return of Edgewood–Colesburg in 2017 (after a brief 4-year hiatus), all but one of the founding members were still conference members. (Center Point, following its merger with Urbana, simply out-grew its former competitors). *Although Isaac Newton Christian Academy is not technically a member, they co-op with Cedar Valley Christian for almost all activities. The conference's roots go back to

840-572: The state-imposed alignments expired, Edgewood–Colesburg rejoined the conference as a member of the West division and Lisbon moved to the East division. In 2018–19, Starmont rejoined as a member of the West division. This would be short lived, and the following year Starmont would re-affiliate with the Upper Iowa Conference . The loss would eliminate divisions in the conference. The 2022-2023 academic year will see current River Valley Conference member North Cedar join

870-2738: The territory of the conference. Clay City , Linton Stockton , Shakamak , and Union (Dugger) high schools also participated in the Southwestern Indiana Conference at the same time. The conference disbanded at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. Former members [ edit ] School Location Mascot Colors County Year joined Previous conference Year left Conference joined Clay City Clay City Eels     11 Clay 1964 Clay County 2010 SW Indiana Montezuma Montezuma Aztecs     61 Parke 1964 Parke County 1986 none (consolidated into Riverton Parke ) Rosedale Rosedale Hotshots     61 Parke 1964 Parke County 1986 none (consolidated into Riverton Parke ) Shakamak Jasonville Lakers     28 Greene 1964 Western Indiana 2010 SW Indiana Stauton Staunton Yellow Jackets     11 Clay 1964 Clay County 1984 none (consolidated into Northview ) Terre Haute Schulte Terre Haute Golden Bears     84 Vigo 1964 Western Indiana 1971? Western Indiana Terre Haute State Terre Haute Little Sycamores     84 Vigo 1964 Western Indiana 1978 none (school closed) Van Buren Carbon Blue Devils     11 Clay 1964 Clay County 1984 none (consolidated into Northview ) Union (Dugger) Dugger Bulldogs       77 Sullivan 1965 Sullivan County 2010 SW Indiana North Central (Farmersburg) Farmersburg Thunderbirds     77 Sullivan 1977 Independents ( TCC (Western) 1967) 2010 SW Indiana Eminence Eminence Eels       55 Morgan 1986 Independents ( L4C 1974) 2010 Independents ( GIC 2019) Sullivan Sullivan Golden Arrows       77 Sullivan 1986 Independents ( WIC 1982) 1999 Western Indiana Linton Stockton Linton Miners       28 Greene 1991 SW Indiana 2010 SW Indiana Played concurrently in

900-587: Was tentatively named the Upper Linn basketball league. Coggon and Springville attended the meeting but decided not to join, while Lisbon was already affiliated with the Wapsi-Eight league, Mt. Vernon was affiliated with the Eastern Iowa league, and Ely was no longer a high school. Ultimately renamed simply the Linn County league, the new league would begin play in 1951–52. Toddville merged with Alburnett beginning with

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