Siouxland Conference School Locations in
Iowa
The Siouxland Conference is a ten team high school athletic conference in the northwest corner of
Iowa , consisting of schools ranging from the smallest class (1A) to the third largest class (3A), and known for its prominence in small school
basketball .
Members
Common cooperatives
Name
Schools participating
Mascot
Colors
Sports shared
BHRV
Boyden-Hull, Rock Valley
Nighthawks
Football ,
wrestling ,
baseball ,
track and field ,
cross country ,
softball
CL/G-LR
Central Lyon, George–Little Rock
Lions
Football, wrestling
G-LR/CL
George–Little Rock, Central Lyon
Mustangs
Cross-country
SSO
Sheldon,
South O'Brien
Orabs
Wrestling
SL-O
Spirit Lake , Okoboji
Indians
Soccer, tennis
History
The Siouxland Conference was founded in 1952 and began play in the 1953–54 school year.
[2]
[3] Originally the league was made up of:
Inwood ,
George and
Rock Rapids
[4]
[5] from
Lyon County ;
Orange City , and
Hawarden from
Sioux County ; and
Akron and
Le Mars Gehlen
[3] from
Plymouth County . Rock Valley replaced Augustana Academy of
Canton, South Dakota , in 1960.
[6] West Sioux of Hawarden left the conference in 1965, and rejoined for a short period in the 1970s.
[7]
[8]
Boyden–Hull became a conference member by 1965.
[9]
[10]
Sioux Center , formerly of the
Sioux Empire Conference ,
[10] and Central Lyon of
Rock Rapids joined the Siouxland Conference in 1967.
[11] Akron withdrew from the league at the conclusion of the 1975 baseball season.
[2]
Little Rock merged with
George to become George–Little Rock in 1989.
[12] The league then went through a set of changes in the early 1990s when it added Sibley-Ocheyedan from the
Lakes Conference , and
Hartley–Melvin–Sanborn and
Okoboji from the disbanded
Sioux Valley Conference .
[13] Maurice-Orange City merged with Floyd Valley to become MOC-Floyd Valley in 1994.
[14] The conference remained the same until Hartley–Mevin–Sanborn left for the
War Eagle Conference in 2009 and longtime Sibley-Ocheyedan rival Sheldon moved in from the Lakes Conference.
[15]
[16] Current
War Eagle Conference member Unity Christian, located in
Orange City, Iowa has applied for membership to the conference at least 3 times, and been denied each time. Former
Lake Conference member and current independent
Western Christian has applied twice, and denied each time as well.
[17]
On 20 September 2022,
George-Little Rock applied for membership to the
War Eagle Conference .
[18] The War Eagle Conference approved membership of the Mustangs on October 20, 2022.
[19]
In October of 2022, the conference finally accepted the membership application of Unity Christian, whom will swap conferences with George-Little Rock.
[20]
Basketball
Men
As an independent school, Sioux Center won the big school state title in 1959,
[21] followed by the small school state title in 1967, in its first year within the Siouxland Conference.
[22] Maurice-Orange City claimed the 2A state championship in 1987–88 and again in 1988–89,
[23] and won the 3A title in 2004–05 as MOC-Floyd Valley.
[24]
[25] Rock Valley has won the championship in 1996,
[26] 1998,
[27] 2009, and 2010.
[28]
[29] In 2003, Boyden-Hull was class 1A state champ,
[30] while Sioux Center won the 2A title.
[31] George–Little Rock won the 1A title in 2006.
[32]
[33] Boyden-Hull won back to back 1A titles in 2012 and 2013.
[34]
[35] In 2013, Sheldon also won the 2A championship.
[36] West Lyon won the 1A championship in 2014, keeping it in the conference for three straight years.
[37] Boyden–Hull won its first 2A title in 2020.
[38]
[39] The Comets competed in the 2A basketball final again in 2021, losing to
Western Christian , a team also located in Hull, as a member of the
Lakes Conference .
[40] It was the first time since 2005 that the two teams had played against each other,
[41] and also the first time in
Iowa High School Athletic Association history that two teams from the same city met in a title game.
[42]
Women
Sibley-Ocheyedan won two basketball titles (1986 and 1996),
[43]
[44]
[45] while Rock Valley has three (2001–2003).
[46] Central Lyon won the 1A title in 2013.
[47] MOC–Floyd Valley won the 3A championship the following season,
[48]
[49] besting their previous best result, second place in 1997.
[50]
Other sports
The schools hold many other state titles as well, including football, which is no longer a sanctioned conference sport since the state took control of the entire system in the mid-1990s and created a two-year rotating district system. Nevertheless, Sibley holds a title, while Sioux Center has two and Central Lyon holds two on their own and one more sharing with George–Little Rock with 2 runners-up in class 2A.
[51] West Lyon has won five titles (1998, 1999, 2010, 2013, 2019)
[52] and finished as class 1A runner up in 2008 and 2014 and 2A runner up in 1995. Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley was class 2A runner up for football in 2009.
[53] Before sharing sports with Rock Valley, Boyden-Hull tied West Harrison for the 1970 Class B track championship. Maurice-Orange City has won the state track championship three times, Sioux Center twice, George and Okoboji once each.
[54] Rock Valley has three state golf titles, all won as a member of the Siouxland Conference.
[55] Central Lyon and Sheldon have each won a cross country championship.
[56] Sibley-Ocheyedan won a women's Class 2A cross country title in 1997.
[57] Rock Valley is the only team in the conference to win a baseball championship.
[58]
Sports offered
The conference offers the following sports:
[59]
References
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"IHSAA: Classifications" .
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"Won Conference" . Le Mars Globe-Post . Newspapers.com. February 9, 1956. Retrieved April 18, 2014 .
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"Tickets on sale" . Hawarden Independent . September 10, 1953. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
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"Junior Gridsters Lack Experience" . Hawarden Independent . September 17, 1953. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
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"New Siouxland League Formed With Rock Valley" . The Independent . December 24, 1959. Retrieved February 8, 2018 .
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"League in 13th Straight" . Lyon County Reporter . March 24, 1999. Retrieved February 8, 2014 .
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"CLASS 2A CHAMPIONSHIP: Boyden-Hull wins fourth title, gets even with North Linn" . Sioux City Journal . Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
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