Western Indiana Conference

The red county is Vermillion county which left the conference in 2016. The yellow counties show current member counties and the schools are reoresented by blue dots. The one in Putnam county to the left is South Putnam High School.

The Western Indiana Conference is the name of two IHSAA-sanctioned conferences based in West Central Indiana. The first formed as an eight-team league that formed as a basketball league in 1944 as the West Central Conference.[1] The league started expanding in 1945 and changed its name to the Western Indiana Conference. With consolidation forcing many membership changes in the 1970s (including all the Terre Haute public schools), the conference folded at four members in 1983.

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 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.[2] All seven WIC schools and all five WIC schools voted to expand the conference into 2015, making a 12 team, two division league.[3]

In the 2016-2017 school year South Vermilion will leave the WIC and rejoin the Wabash River Conference. Indian Creek will leave the Mid-Hoosier Conference and join the WIC in the fall of 2016 to keep the WIC at an even 12-teams after South Vermilion's departure.

Members

School Location Mascot Colors Enrollment IHSAA
Class
FB
County Year Joined Previous Conference
Brown
County
Nashville Eagles           755 AAA
AAA
7
Brown
1999 Mid-Hoosier
Cascade Clayton Cadets           495 AA
AA
33
Hendricks
2015 West Central
Cloverdale Cloverdale Clovers           408 AA
AA
67
Putnam
2015 West Central
Edgewood Ellettsville Mustangs                833 AAA
AAAA
53
Monroe
1999 West Central
Greencastle Greencastle Tiger Cubs           611 AAA
AAA
67
Putnam
2015 West Central
North
Putnam
Roachdale Cougars           532 AA
AA
67
Putnam
2015 West Central
Northview Brazil Knights                1,142 AAA
AAAA
11
Clay
1999 independent
Owen
Valley
Spencer Patriots                908 AAA
AAAA
60
Owen
1999 West Central
South
Vermilion
Clinton Wildcats                523 [4] AAA
AA
83
Vermilion
1999 Wabash River
South
Putnam
Greencastle Eagles           394 AA
A
67
Putnam
2015 West Central
Sullivan Sullivan Golden Arrows           543 AA
AAA
77
Sullivan
1999 Tri-River
West
Vigo
West Terre Haute Vikings                640 AAA
AAA
84
Vigo
1999 independent
Indian Creek Trafalgar Braves                599 AAA

AAA

41

Johnson

2016 Mid-Hoosier

Past Members (1999-2015)

School Location Mascot Colors County Year Joined Previous Conference Year Departed Conference Joined
South Vermillion Clinton Wildcats           83
Vermillion
1999 Wabash River 2016 Wabash River

Divisions

2015-16 2016-
East West East West
Brown County Greencastle Brown County Greencastle
Cascade Northview Cascade North Putnam
Cloverdale South Putnam Cloverdale Northview
Edgewood South Vermilion Edgewood South Putnam
North Putnam Sullivan Indian Creek Sullivan
Owen Valley West Vigo Owen Valley West Vigo

Old Conference Membership

School Location Mascot Colors County Year Joined Previous Conference Year Left Conference Joined
Brazil Brazil Red Devils           11
Clay
1944 Wabash Valley 1982 Independents (consolidated into
Northview 1984)
Garfield Terre Haute Purple Eagles           84
Vigo
1944 Wabash Valley 1971 none (consolidated into
Terre Haute North)
Gerstmeyer Tech Terre Haute Black Cats                84
Vigo
1944 Wabash Valley 1971 none (consolidated into
Terre Haute North)
Linton-Stockton1 Linton Miners                28
Greene
1944 Southern Indiana/
Wabash Valley
1974 SW Indiana
State Lab2 Terre Haute Little Sycamores           84
Vigo
1944 Wabash Valley 1978 none (school closed)
South Vermillion3 Clinton Wildcats                83
Vermillion
1944 Wabash Valley 1982 Wabash River
Sullivan4 Sullivan Golden Arrows           77
Sullivan
1944 Southern Indiana/
Wabash Valley
1982 Independents (TRC 1986)
Wiley Terre Haute Red Streaks           84
Vigo
1944 Wabash Valley 1971 none (consolidated into
Terre Haute South)
Honey Creek Allendale Honey Bees           84
Vigo
1945 Wabash Valley 1971 none (consolidated into
Terre Haute South)
Greencastle Greencastle Tiger Cubs           67
Putnam
1949 South Central 1977 West Central
Jasonville Jasonville Yellow Jackets                28
Greene
1949 1963 none (consolidated
into Shakamak)
Union High Dugger Bulldogs                77
Sullivan
1950 1958 Independents (TRC 1965)
Lebanon Lebanon Tigers           06
Boone
<1951 1967 Sagamore
Schulte5 Terre Haute Golden Bears           84
Vigo
1953 none (new school) 1977 none (school closed)
West
Vigo
West Terre Haute Vikings                84
Vigo
1960 none (new school) 1982 Independent (WIC 1999)
Shakamak Jasonville Lakers           28
Greene
1963 none (new school) 1964 Tri-River
North
Knox
Bicknell Warriors                42
Knox
1977 Blue Chip 1981 Independents
(BCC 1986)
  1. Linton-Stockton played concurrentily in the WIC and the SIAC from 1944 to 1951.
  2. State played concurrently in the WIC and the Tri-River Conference from 1964 to 1978.
  3. South Vermillion was known as Clinton until 1977. The smaller schools in southern Vermillion County had consolidated into Clinton by 1963, but the school did not change its name right away (and kept Clinton's school colors and nickname), so this is considered a name change rather than an actual consolidation of schools.
  4. Sullivan played concurrently in the WIC and the SIAC from 1944 to 1962.
  5. Schulte played concurrently in the WIC and the Tri-River from 1964 to 1977.

References

  1. "8 Schools Join Wabash League". Hammond Times, Hammond, IN. 1944-11-19. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  2. "Future May Include Expansion Of Western Indiana Conference Field". Hoosier Topics. 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  3. "Western Indiana Conference to Expand to 12 Schools". Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, IN. 2014-04-22. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  4. http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/ihsaa/documents/quick%20resources/Enrollments%2014151617.pdf

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