The South Iowa Cedar League is a high school athletic conference in south central and southeastern Iowa. The conference is made up of mostly 1A schools, as well as a few 2A schools (the two smallest classes in the state).
A 9-team league from the 1960s, the conference expanded to 12 teams in 1996, then dropped to 11 members when Williamsburg joined the Eastern Iowa Hawkeye Conference in 2000. In the fall of 2014, the schools of the SICL voted to allow Colfax–Mingo to join the SICL, making it a 12-team league again.
Members East Division Institution Location Mascot Colors Affiliation2026-2027 BEDSBelle PlaineBelle PlainePlainsman Public110English ValleysNorth EnglishBears Public93Iowa ValleyMarengoTigers Public113KeotaKeotaEagles Public59SigourneySigourneySavages Public149Tri-CountyThornburgTrojans Public44
West Division Institution Location Mascot Colors Affiliation2026-2027 BEDSB-G-MBrooklynBears Public121Colfax–MingoColfaxTigerhawks Public142H-L-VVictorWarriors Public62Lynnville–SullySullyHawks Public124MontezumaMontezumaBraves Public104North MahaskaNew SharonWarhawks Public125
Sports Boys' sports are administered through the Iowa High School Athletic Association, and girls' sports are administered through the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. Sports classes for each are based on enrollment.
Football is played by districts based on their enrollment classification and geography, instead of by conference. Most SICL schools are in Class A, the smallest of five classifications for the 11-man football game, although Sigourney-Keota—which has had a cooperative agreement since 1987—is Class 1A. As of 2019, four SICL schools—Iowa Valley, English Valleys, HLV and Tri-County—play eight-man football.
The conference offers the following sports:
Fall — volleyball, boys' cross-country and girls' cross-country. Winter — Boys' basketball, girls' basketball and boys' wrestling and girls' wrestling. Spring — Boys' track and field, girls' track and field, boys' golf and girls' golf. Summer — Baseball and softball.
Although the member schools field junior varsity teams (for freshman and sophomore athletes) in many of the above-mentioned sports, conference championships are determined at varsity level only. Also, not all schools field teams in every sport, while others are part of cooperative sharing agreements with schools within and outside the SICL.
State championships Year Sport Class School 1964 Girls' track and field - Belle Plaine 1965 Girls' track and field - Belle Plaine 1966 Girls' track and field - Belle Plaine 1969 Girls' basketball - Montezuma 1969 Boys' track and field B Belle Plaine 1970 Girls' basketball - Montezuma 1971 Boys' basketball 1A Montezuma 1971 Boys' track and field B Belle Plaine 1976 Wrestling 1A Belle Plaine 1979 Football 2A Sigourney 1984 Girls' track and field 1A Belle Plaine 1985 Boys' track and field 2A Iowa Valley 1989 Boys' basketball A Keota 1990 Boys' basketball 1A Montezuma 1990 Girls' track and field 1A Sigourney 1991 Boys' cross country 1A Williamsburg 1991 Girls' track and field 1A Sigourney 1992 Girls' track and field 1A Sigourney 1994 Girls' golf 1A Williamsburg 1995 Football 2A Sigourney-Keota 1996 Girls' cross country 1A Lynnville–Sully 1997 Girls' basketball 1A Lynnville–Sully 1998 Girls' basketball 1A Lynnville–Sully 1998 Girls' track and field 1A Belle Plaine 1999 Girls' basketball 1A Lynnville–Sully 2001 Wrestling 1A Belle Plaine 2001 Football 2A Sigourney-Keota 2001 Wrestling Duals 1A Belle Plaine 2002 Boys' golf 2A Belle Plaine 2005 Football A North Mahaska 2005 Football 2A Sigourney-Keota 2005 Boys' basketball 1A North Mahaska 2012 Girls' basketball 1A North Mahaska 2018 Girls golf 1A Iowa Valley 2021 Boys' basketball 1A Montezuma
Membership timeline
External links South Iowa Cedar League Roster
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