Lake Suburban Conference

The Lake Suburban Conference was a high school athletic conference serving schools in the Indiana High School Athletic Association. The conference was formed in 1949 as the Calumet Athletic Conference, and disbanded in 1992. Most of its schools were located in Lake County, though two members during the CAC period were from Porter County.

History

The Calumet Athletic Conference was formed in 1949 by nine schools from Lake County. These schools were either Gary-Hammond metro area schools not involved in the Northern Indiana Conference, or suburban schools within the county. While membership did change, as three schools left to be Independent, two of those schools would return, along with other expansions, meant that two divisions would be utilized from 1963 to 1970.

1970 caused dramatic changes to the Calumet. Chesterton and Portage left to help found the Duneland Athletic Conference, Gary Wirt joined with the other Gary schools in the Northwestern Conference, and East Gary Edison would become an independent. Recently formed Munster was added, and the conference rebranded itself as the Lake Suburban Conference. Membership was much more stable, as the only change afterwards was Merrillville leaving for the Duneland. However, by the early 1990s, suburban growth had caused the conference to become unbalanced enrollment-wise. This led to the 1993 breakup of the LSC. Crown Point would become the Duneland's 8th member. Lowell would join the Northwest Hoosier Conference, which had a wide footprint that Lowell was firmly in the middle of. Lake Central would play as an independent for the next decade, eventually taking former CAC member Hobart's place in the Duneland. The remaining four schools joined with the remnants of the Indiana Lake Shore Conference to form the Lake 10 Conference.

Members

School	Location	Mascot	County	Year Joined	Previous Conference	Year Left	Conference Joined
Crown Point	Crown Point	Bulldogs	45 Lake	1949 1963	Independents	1953 1993	Independents Duneland
Dyer Central	Dyer	Indians	45 Lake	1949		1966	none (consolidated into Lake Central)
Edison	East Gary	Fighting Eagles	45 Lake	1949		1970	Independents
Gary Edison	Gary	Blazers	45 Lake	1949		1968	none (consolidated into Gary West Side)
Gary Wirt	Gary	Troopers	45 Lake	1949		1970	Northwestern
Griffith	Griffith	Panthers	45 Lake	1949		1993	Lake 10
Hobart	Hobart	Brickies	45 Lake	1949		1955	Independents
Lowell	Lowell	Red Devils	45 Lake	1949 1956	Independents	1955 1993	Independents Northwest Hoosier
Merrillville	Merrillville	Pirates	45 Lake	1949		1975	Duneland
Portage	Portage	Indians	64 Porter	1950	Independents	1970	Duneland
Highland	Highland	Trojans	45 Lake	1962	Independents	1993	Lake 10
Calumet	Gary	Warriors	45 Lake	1963	Independents	1993	Lake 10
Chesterton	Chesterton	Trojans	64 Porter	1963	Independents	1970	Duneland
Lake Central	St. John	Indians	45 Lake	1966	none (new school)	1993	Independent
Munster	Munster	Mustangs	45 Lake	1970	Independents	1993	Lake 10

Divisions 1963-70

North	South
Calumet	Crown Point
Chesterton	Dyer Central (63-66)/ Lake Central (66-70)
Edison	Griffith
Gary Edison (63-68)	Highland
Gary Wirt	Lowell
Portage	Merrillville

Boys State Champions

Swimming (8): 1973-Munster, 1974-Munster, 1975-Munster, 1976-Munster, 1977-Munster, 1979-Munster, 1980-Munster, 1987-Lake Central
Tennis (1): 1971-Crown Point

Girls State Champions

Basketball (2): 1984-Crown Point, 1985-Crown Point
Softball (1): 1992-Lake Central
Swimming (3): 1976-Munster, 1977-Munster, 1978-Munster

Related links

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 Big Eight Blue Chip Central Indiana Conference Indiana Duneland Eastern Indiana Great Lakes Greater South Shore Athletic Hoosier Hoosier Crossroads Hoosier Heartland Hoosier Heritage Hoosier Hills Hoosier North Indiana Crossroads Indianapolis Public Metropolitan Mid-Eastern Mid-Hoosier Mid-Indiana Football Mid-Southern Mid-State North Central Northeast Corner Northeast Eight Northern Indiana Northern Lakes Northwest Crossroads Northwestern Ohio River Valley Patoka Lake Pioneer Pocket Porter County Sagamore Southern Southern Indiana Southwestern Indiana Southwest Football Summit Three Rivers Tri-Eastern Wabash River Western Indiana IHSAA Independents

Disbanded Conferences	Adams Benton Big Blue River Blue River Calumet Athletic Capital District Cass Central Suburban Classic Decatur Delaware Dixie Dixie-Monon East Central Eastern Indiana (EIC) Eastern Wabash Valley Elkhart Fort Wayne City Fountain Fulton Hamilton Hancock Henry Howard Huntington Indiana H.S. Football Indiana Lake Shore Jay Johnson Kankakee Valley Kosciusko LaGrange Lake Athletic Lake Suburban Laughery Valley Little Seven Lost River Marion Marshall Mid-Central Mid-Indiana Midland Midwest Mississinewa Valley Noble Northeastern Indiana Northwest Hoosier Northern Indiana Valley Northern State Northland Olympic Patoka Valley Prairie Rangeline South Central South Lake Michigan Southeastern Indiana Southern Monon State Corner Steuben Tiny Ten Tippecanoe Tippecanoe Valley Tri-City League Tri-County (Northern) Tri-County (Southern) Tri-River Wayne Wells West Central Western Indiana Small High School White River 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

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