North Eastern Conference (Wisconsin)

The North Eastern Conference is a high school athletic conference made up of ten teams in northeastern Wisconsin, centering primarily around the Green Bay, Fox Valley and Marinette County areas. Conference schools are members of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.

North Eastern Conference
ConferenceWIAA
Founded2007 (as Eastern Valley Conference)
2015 (as North Eastern Conference)
CommissionerPeter Kittel
No. of teams10 (9 for football)
HeadquartersBrillion, Wisconsin
Official websitehttp://www.northeasternconferencewi.org/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5genie=376

Conference history

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The North Eastern Conference was founded as the Eastern Valley Conference in 2007 as a merger of four teams from the East Central Conference and six teams from the Valley 8 Conference.

2013

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In 2013, the WIAA unveiled plans for a new structure of several area conferences. The plan called for the departure of Berlin, Ripon, and Winneconne of the Eastern Valley to the revived East Central Conference, with Xavier going to the Bay Conference. Denmark, Luxemburg-Casco, Marinette and Oconto Falls would leave the Bay to the North Eastern along with Olympian Conference member Wrightstown. Waupaca would move to the Bay for football only.

2015-Present

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The plans created in 2013 came into effect, and the new conference was renamed from the Eastern Valley Conference to the North Eastern Conference because the location is no longer only in the Fox Valley area. It now includes schools from the Green Bay, Fox Valley, and Marinette metropolitan areas. In December 2023 Fox Valley Lutheran had made a request within the WIAA conference realignment process to move the growing school into the Bay Conference for all non football sports.

Membership

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North Eastern Conference Member School Locations in Wisconsin

Current members

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School Mascot & Colors Year Joined Former Conference Enrollment
Clintonville HS Truckers 2015 EVC 404
Denmark HS Vikings 2015 Bay 486
Fox Valley Lutheran High School Foxes 2015 EVC 745
Freedom HS Irish 2015 EVC 481
Little Chute HS Mustangs 2015 EVC 477
Luxemburg-Casco HS Spartans 2015 Bay 648
Marinette HS Marines 2015 Bay 645
Oconto Falls HS Panthers 2015 Bay 533
Waupaca HS Comets 2015 Eastern Valley 644
Wrightstown HS Tigers 2015 Olympian 399

References

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