Raccoon River Conference

The Raccoon River Conference is a nine team high school athletic league in Central Iowa. Made up of mid-sized school districts located mostly west of Des Moines, all schools in the conference are currently 3A schools, the second largest class of schools in Iowa.

Current members

Institution	Location	Mascot	Affiliation	9-11 Enrollment (2012-2013)^[1]
ADM	Adel	Tigers	Public	359
Ballard	Huxley	Bombers	Public	367
Bondurant-Farrar	Bondurant	Bluejays	Public	311
Boone	Boone	Toreadors	Public	563
Carlisle	Carlisle	Wildcats	Public	459
Carroll	Carroll	Tigers	Public	362
Perry	Perry	Bluejays	Public	445
Winterset	Winterset	Huskies	Public	411

History

The Raccoon River Conference was once a small school conference. The conference was made up of Bondurant-Farrar, Ogden, Woodward-Granger, Interstate 35 in Truro, Waukee, Dallas Center-Grimes, and Adel-DeSoto at it outset. While the outer regions of the Des Moines metro began to experience growth, Bondurant-Farrar and Ogden decided to leave for the smaller Heart of Iowa Conference, while I-35 joined the Pride of Iowa Conference. Woodward-Granger soon followed their former members to the HOI conference. This flurry of change saw the league reform itself. By 1998, there were 14 members in the conference, competing in two divisions. The league now consisted of A-D-M, Ballard, Carlisle, Carroll, Dallas Center-Grimes, Jefferson-Scranton, Nevada, North Polk, Perry, Prairie City-Monroe, Saydel, Waukee, West Central Valley, and Winterset. Over the next two years, North Polk, Prairie City-Monroe, Waukee, and W.C. Valley all joined different conferences, leaving the league with ten teams. In 2007, Jefferson-Scranton left for the Heart of Iowa Conference. Nevada followed them there in 2009, the same year Boone joined the league.

Bondurant-Farrar joined the Raccoon River Conference in the 2011-12 school year. Dallas Center-Grimes, one of the league's founding members left for the Little Hawkeye Conference in 2013.

External links

Official Site

References

↑ "Iowa High School Athletic Association BEDS Document" (PDF). Retrieved October 7, 2013.

Iowa High School Athletic Conferences

Current Conferences	Bluegrass CIML Corn Bowl Corner Hawkeye Ten Heart of Iowa Iowa Star Lakes Little Hawkeye Maple Valley MAC Mississippi Valley Missouri River NICL North Central North Iowa NEIC Pride of Iowa Raccoon River River Valley Rolling Valley SEISC Siouxland South Central SICL Southeast Tri-Rivers Twin Lakes Upper Iowa WaMaC War Eagle West Central Western Iowa

Former Conferences	Big East Big Eight Boyer Valley Cornbelt Northwest Rolling Hills Sioux Valley Western Valley

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