The Green Meadows Conference is an OHSAA athletic league located in northwest Ohio. The eight member schools are all located in one of three counties: Defiance County, Paulding County, or Williams County.
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The Green Meadows Conference was formed as an athletic conference in 1962. The charter members of the conference were Ayersville, Fairview, Hicksville, Paulding, and Jewell (now Tinora).
In 1966, Blue Creek, from Paulding County and now a part of the Wayne Trace School District, joined the conference. Then in 1967, Oakwood joined.
The conference stayed intact until 1972, when district consolidations in Paulding County caused some changes in the make-up of some member schools. Blue Creek became a part of the new Wayne Trace School District, along with Grover Hill and Payne. Oakwood became a part of the Paulding Exempted School System. Antwerp and Holgate also joined the league making the number of members eight: Antwerp, Ayersville, Hicksville, Holgate, Fairview, Paulding, Tinora, and Wayne Trace.
In 1974, Paulding left the GMC to join the Northwest Conference. They were replaced by Edgerton. Membership remained the same until the 2019-20 school year.
In February 2020, it was announced that Holgate would join the Buckeye Border Conference as a member for every sport except football, which will participate in the Northern 8 Football Conference. Holgate announced in late 2019 that they would move to 8-man football due to low numbers, which caused the remaining schools in the Green Meadows Conference to vote them out of the GMC over scheduling concerns. The Tigers joined the BBC in the fall of 2021.
With Holgate's departure, the GMC decided to extend an invitation to former member Paulding in February 2020, which was accepted shortly afterwards. Paulding, which had been a member of the Northwest Conference ever since leaving the GMC in 1974, rejoined during the 2021-2022 school year.
Members
SchoolNicknameLocationColors AntwerpArchersAntwerpRoyal Blue, White AyersvillePilotsHighland Twp.Columbia Blue, Gold EdgertonBulldogsEdgerton Maroon, Gold FairviewApachesSherwoodBlack, Gold HicksvilleAcesHicksvilleRed, White PauldingPanthersPauldingMaroon, White TinoraRamsDefiance Green, White Wayne TraceRaidersHaviland Red, Blue
Former members SchoolNicknameLocationColorsMembership Tenure HolgateTigersHolgatePurple, Gold 1972-2021
Membership timeline
Conference rivalries Tinora vs Fairview Ayersville vs Tinora Antwerp vs Wayne Trace Hicksville vs Edgerton Hicksville vs. Fairview Hicksville vs. Tinora Wayne Trace vs. Tinora Antwerp vs. Hicksville Paulding vs. Wayne Trace
State championships Fall sports Boys Cross Country Girls Cross Country Football Golf Volleyball Antwerp1992 Ayersville 1975 Edgerton Fairview Hicksville Paulding Tinora Wayne Trace
Winter sports Boys Basketball Girls Basketball Wrestling Antwerp Ayersville 1957, 1961 Edgerton 1959 Fairview 1946 1989 Hicksville Paulding Tinora Wayne Trace 1991
Spring sports Baseball Softball Boys Track & Field Girls Track & Field Antwerp 2019 Ayersville 1997 1996 Edgerton Fairview 2021 Hicksville 1978 Paulding 1960 Tinora 2014 Wayne Trace
Notable athletes Bruce Berenyi, Fairview (Major League Baseball Pitcher) Chad Reineke, Ayersville (Major League Baseball Pitcher) Denny Stark, Edgerton (Major League Baseball Pitcher) Paul Miles, Paulding (National Football League Running Back)
See also Ohio High School Athletic Conferences
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