The Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) is a sports league that includes 39 public and private high schools from Morris County, Sussex County and Warren County, New Jersey, that operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.Home Page, Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference. Accessed August 27, 2020. "The Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference prides itself on being one of New Jersey's premier high school conferences and is 39 high schools located in Northwest New Jersey."
The conference was formed in 2009 by the NJSIAA as part of a major statewide reorganization of athletic leagues and included schools that had previously been members of the Sussex County Interscholastic League as well as Morris County schools that had been part of the Colonial Hills Conference, Iron Hills Conference, and the Northern Hills Conference. Two northern Warren County schools opted to leave the Skyland Conference to join the NJAC; Hackettstown joined when the conference formed, while North Warren officially became a member in the fall of 2012.
The NJAC sponsors competition in most high school sports, but not in football. The conference originally had football divisions, but merged with three other leagues in 2016 to form the North Jersey Super Football Conference (now simply known as the Super Football Conference).
Members of the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference include:
Academy of Saint Elizabeth - Convent Station Boonton High School - Boonton Chatham High School - Chatham Delbarton School – Morristown Dover High School - Dover Hackettstown High School - Hackettstown Hanover Park High School - East Hanover High Point Regional High School - Sussex Hopatcong High School - Hopatcong Jefferson Township High School - Oak Ridge Kinnelon High School - Kinnelon Kittatinny Regional High School - Newton Lenape Valley Regional High School - Stanhope Madison High School - Madison Montville Township High School - Montville Morris Catholic High School – Denville Morris County School of Technology - Denville Morris Hills High School - Rockaway Morris Knolls High School – Rockaway Morristown High School – Morristown Morristown-Beard School - Morristown Mount Olive High School - Flanders Mountain Lakes High School - Mountain Lakes Newton High School - Newton North Warren Regional High School - Blairstown Parsippany High School - Parsippany Parsippany Hills High School - Parsippany Pequannock Township High School - Pequannock Pope John XXIII Regional High School - Sparta Randolph High School - Randolph Roxbury High School - Succasunna Sparta High School - Sparta Sussex County Technical High School - Sparta Vernon Township High School - Vernon Villa Walsh Academy - Morristown Wallkill Valley Regional High School – Hamburg West Morris Central High School - Chester West Morris Mendham High School – Mendham Whippany Park High School – Whippany
Former members of the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference:
Butler High School - Butler (left for NJIC after 2017-18 season)Havsy, Jane. "Butler off to smooth start in new small-school conference", Daily Record (Morristown), September 28, 2018. Accessed August 27, 2020. "Butler High School’s athletic teams wandered into uncharted territory this fall. The Bulldogs are taking on the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, an allegiance of NJSIAA Group I schools in Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties. As the league's first Morris County member, Butler began its transition from the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference in January 2016."
References
External links Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference