Northeast Eight Conference

The Northeast 8 Conference in Indiana.

An eight-member IHSAA-Sanctioned Athletic Conference within the Northeastern Indiana counties of Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington,Noble, Wells, and Whitley. The conference was started in 1989 as the Northeast Hoosier Conference when six schools from the Northeastern Indiana Athletic Conference (Bellmont, Columbia City, DeKalb, East Noble, Homestead, and New Haven) joined with two schools from the Allen County Athletic Conference (Fort Wayne Carroll and Norwell). The smaller six schools decided to pull out of the conference in 2015 the conference will cease to exist, forcing Carroll and Homestead out, who then joined the Summit Athletic Conference. The remaining schools, while settling on the current league name, added Huntington North of the North Central Conference and Leo of the Allen County Athletic Conference, who are more similar in size to the rest of the schools. While the six NEHC schools technically dropped out, they never actually left the league, having succeeded in forcing out the two large Fort Wayne schools, ended up staying in the league. This is not an unheard of tactic, as most notably Ohio's Chagrin Valley Conference pulled virtually the same move around the same time.

Membership

School Location Mascot Colors Enrollment IHSAA Class # / County Year Joined Previous Conference
Bellmont Decatur Braves                927 AAA 01
Adams
1989 Northeastern Indiana
Columbia
City
Columbia City Eagles                1,127 AAAA 92
Whitley
1989 Northeastern Indiana
DeKalb Waterloo Barons                1,302 AAAA 17
DeKalb
1989 Northeastern Indiana
East
Noble
Kendallville Knights                1,213 AAAA 57
Noble
1989 Northeastern Indiana
Huntington
North
Huntington Vikings           1,750 AAAA 35
Huntington
2015 North Central
Leo Leo Lions           AAA 02
Allen
2015 Allen County
New Haven New Haven Bulldogs                985 AAAA 02
Allen
1989 Northeastern Indiana
Norwell Ossian Knights                876 AAAA 90
Wells
1989 Allen County

Former Members

School Location Mascot Colors Enrollment IHSAA Class # / County Year Joined Previous Conference Year Left Conference Joined
Fort Wayne
Carroll
Fort Wayne Chargers           1,889 AAAA 02
Allen
1989 Allen County 2015 Summit
Fort Wayne
Homestead
Fort Wayne Spartans                2,141 AAAA 02
Allen
1989 Northeastern Indiana 2015 Summit

State Championships

Bellmont (6)

DeKalb (2)

East Noble (1)

Carroll (2)

Homestead (10)

Norwell (2)

Notable athletes

Resources


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