High school softball: 2025 area all-conference portal. Received so far: MVC Mississippi and Valley divisions, Wamac East and West divisions, River Valley North and South Divisions, Tri-Rivers East and West divisions, Northeast Iowa, South Iowa Cedar, Upper Iowa.
Girls’ basketball: The 2024-25 area all-conference portal. Received so far: MVC Mississippi & Valley, Wamac East & West, River Valley North & South divisions, Tri-Rivers East & West, Northeast Iowa, South Iowa Cedar, Upper Iowa.
Here is a quick synopsis of the conferences in the Gazette area and a prediction for each winner.
Prep softball: The portal for 2024 area all-conference teams. Received so far: MVC Mississippi & Valley, Wamac East & West, River Valley North & South, Tri-Rivers East & West, Northeast Iowa, South Iowa Cedar, Upper Iowa, plus all-Metro.
A stable high school athletics conference for more than a century, the Northeast Iowa Conference is now on the brink of collapse. Crestwood has been accepted by the Upper Iowa Conference, Waukon and New Hampton have been invited, and Decorah is in no-man’s land in terms of geography and enrollment.
2023 area all-conference volleyball portal. Received so far: MVC Mississippi and Valley, Wamac East and West, River Valley North and South, Tri-Rivers East and West, Northeast Iowa, Upper Iowa, all-Metro.
Prep softball: Portal for 2023 area all-conference teams. Received so far: Mississippi Valley, Wamac, River Valley, Tri-Rivers, Northeast Iowa, South Iowa Cedar, Upper Iowa, plus all-Metro
Girls’ basketball: All conference teams for 2022-23. Mississippi Valley, Wamac, River Valley, Tri-Rivers, Northeast Iowa, Upper Iowa.
Girls’ basketball season reset: North Linn looks like the area’s heaviest league-title favorite, and the race of highest intrigue, again, is the Wamac West.
The Gazette’s Jeff Linder reveals where he would place Waverly-Shell Rock, and how he would redraw the rest of the Iowa high school conference landscape.
Waverly-Shell Rock has agreed to leave the Northeast Iowa Conference following the 2023-24 school year. The other five members of the league previously voted to remove the school from the league, mostly because of its larger enrollment.
The Gazette’s area girls’ basketball conference projections for the 2022-23 season, including the MVC, Wamac, River Valley, Tri-Rivers and more.
Prep cross country: A portal on area conference meets for 2022.
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