The Lake Conference is a high-school athletic conference whose members are located in midwestern cities in northwestern Iowa. Most schools are located in their own district seats.
Video Lakes Conference
School members
The conference lineup currently consists of seven schools from seven different districts in northwestern Iowa. Because Iowa is the only country in the country that has separate regulatory agencies for athletic boys and girls, different classifications for each sex. The Iowa High School Athletic Association is divided into classes (from the largest to the smallest) 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A, A, and 8-players for football while the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union is divided into class 1A (smallest school) for 5A (largest school).
- * Volleyball Classification is for 2017-2018, no data for 2018-2019 is available.
Maps Lakes Conference
Sports
This conference offers the following sports:
- Fall - volleyball, cross-country children, cross-country girls, swimming girls
- Winter - Boy's basketball, female basketball, wrestling, and boy swimming.
- Spring - Kid tracks and pitches, track and field girls, children's football, women's football, boys tennis, girls' tennis, golf boys and girls golf.
- Summer - Baseball and softball.
History
The lake conference dates back to the mid-1940s when Storm Lake, Cherokee, Spirit Lake, Sibley, Sheldon, Emmetsburg, Estherville, and Spencer formed the league. For more than four decades, the conference has no membership changes. In the 1980s, Sibley joined the nearby Ocheyedan ​​School and left the conference in 1990 to join the Siouxland Conference. Estherville also joined Lincoln Central High School in the mid-1990s to form Estherville-Lincoln Central High School. For the academic year 1993-94, LeMars was added to the conference.
Hull Western Christian joined Lakes in 1997-98. Since joining Lakes, Western Christian has participated in 8 state basketball tournaments and won the 2A championship in 2006-07, becoming the first league school to win a state title since Estherville in 1986-1987. They followed him by repeating as country champion in 2007-08, and won another title in 2009-10.
The Lake Conference sponsored football for more than 50 years before the Iowa High School Athletic Association rearranged all football levels into a growing two-year district format. Because of this change, many schools are not competing with each other in football.
Although all schools currently compete in grade 2A or 3A, most have been at the highest classification level for the Iowa High School Athletic Association. With the addition of a fourth class in 1980, however, no school of conferences fulfilled the registration requirements to be in this largest class. In addition, most schools are currently seeing a slight decrease in their enrollment. Recently 5 years ago seven of the eight league schools were in grade 3A, the second highest grade in Iowa. Today LeMar, Lake Storm, and Spencer are consistently included in the fifteen largest schools in grade 3A while Estherville-Lincoln Central and Spirit Lake often move between 2A and 3A classes depending on their enrollment for the school year. Hull Christian West and Cherokee are strong in grade 2A and are not expected to change classes any time soon.
Recent Conference Membership Changes
In 2009-10, Sheldon left the conference to join the Siouxland Conference. Sheldon's officials call travel distance as an excuse to make the jump, because the five schools of the Siouxland Conference are closer to Sheldon than the second closest Lake Conference school.
In 2017 Emmetsburg, a founding member of the Lake Conference, left the conference to join the Twin Lakes Conference. Emmetsburg officials cite comparison of school size and lack of ability to compete successfully at Lake Conference as the two main reasons for switching.
In March 2018, the Le Mars Community announced that it would leave the Lake Conference to join the Missouri River Activities Conference. Officials of Le Mars explained that they chose to leave due to the instability of the Lake Conference, the school size disparity at the Lake Conference, and the lack of high-caliber competition from top to bottom in conferences every year. Le Mars Community will participate in the Lakes Conference competition for the 2018-2019 school year before leaving for the Missouri River Activities Conference for the 2019-2020 school year.
Lake Conference officials have said that they are working to find another school to bring the conference back up to seven, eight, or even more members. However, until this happens, the conference will be temporarily run as a six-school conference. If no school agrees to join the conference after Le Mars's departure, the conference officials will meet to discuss future options, including continuing with six teams or canceling the conference.
Country Tournament Success
The Lakes Conference has a very successful history in the state tournament.
Football
Kualifikasi Dome:
Estherville:
State Runner-up: 1987
LeMars:
Semifinalist: 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
State Champion: 1973
Spencer:
Semifinalist: 1990, 1991
Champion Country: 1994
Spirit Lake:
Negara Runner Up: 2011
State Champion: 2012
Champion Country: 2015
Kristen Barat:
Negara Runner Up: 2015
Negara Juara: 2016
Voli
Kristen Barat
Country of Semifinalists: 2009
State Runners-up: 1999, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Country Champion: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2016
LeMars:
Country Qualification: 1996, 2013
Spencer:
Country Qualification: 2006
Boys Basket
Kristen Barat
Country Qualification: 2001, 2015
Third Place Finish: 2009
Negara Runner-up: 2011
Country Championships: 1985, 1991, 1996, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017
Cherokee :
Country Qualification: 1952, 1975, 1984
Estherville:
Country Qualification: 1986, 1991
State Champion: 1987
LeMars:
Country Qualification: 1930, 1983, 2015
Third Place Finish: 1957, 2000
State Runner Up: 1942, 2015
Storm Lake:
State Qualifier: 1945, 1956, 1963, 1965, 1969, 1979, 1994
Negara Runner-up: 1970
State Champion: 1968, 1980
Spencer:
State Qualifier: 1995, 1998, 2003, 2004
Negara Runner Up: 1976,
Spirit Lake:
Country Qualification: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1942
Negara Runner Up: 1920, 1928
Bola Basket Gadis
Six out of six state tournament qualifiers:
Estherville:
Country Qualification: 1979
Champion Country: 1982
Five out of five state tournament qualifiers:
Cherokee:
Country Qualification: 2003
Country of the Semifinalists: 2005
Estherville-Lincoln Central:
Country Qualification: 2012
Negara Runner Up: 1999, 2011
LeMars:
Country Qualification: 2002
Country of the Semifinalists: 2018
Storm Lake:
Country Qualification: 1979, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2010
Negara Runner Up: 1994
Spencer:
Country Qualification: 2003, 2004, 2009
Spirit Lake:
Country Qualification: 2006
Negara Runner Up: 2007
Kristen Barat:
Country Qualification: 1998, 2000, 2002, 2015
Negara Runner Up: 2016
Negara Juara: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017
Soccer Boys
Spencer:
3rd place: 2008
Champion Country: 2009
Storm Lake:
Country Qualification: 2006, 2017
Negara Runner Up: 2013, 2016
Sepak Bola Girls
Spencer
Kualifikasi Negara: 2015
Baseball
Cherokee:
Country Qualification: 2006, 2010
State Semifinalist: 2005, 2009
Negara Runner Up: 2008
State Champion: 2007
Estherville-Lincoln Central:
Country Qualification: 2008
Storm Lake:
Country Qualification: 1981, 2010, 2011
Negara Runner Up: 2009
Spencer:
State Champion: 1991, 1997
Softball
Le Mars
Country Qualification: 2014
Spirit Lake has qualified for state tournaments multiple times and won the state championship in 2004
Bowling Girl
- The bowling girl became an approved sport in 2015
Le Mars
Country Qualification: 2015 (8), 2016 (3), 2017 (fourth), 2018 (2nd)
Boy Bowling
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Bowling boys become sports approved in 2013
Cherokee
Country Qualification: 2014 (5th)
Le Mars
Country Qualification: 2013 (10), 2016 (2), 2017 (fourth), 2018 (8)
Tennis Men
Le Mars
Country Qualification: 2011 (4), 2015 (3), 2016 (2), 2017 (2nd)
Women Tennis
Le Mars
Country Qualification: 2015, 2016
Spirit Lake
Country Qualification: 2014, 2017
Reference
External links
- Official site
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