The Mid-Eastern Conference is a former high school athletic conference in Wisconsin, in operation from 1952 to 1970. Its membership was concentrated in northeastern Wisconsin, and all of its member schools belonged to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
History
The Mid-Eastern Conference was formed in 1952 by a split of the Northeastern Wisconsin Conference, an athletic organization for medium-sized schools in the Fox River Valley region. All eight members of the established conference's Western Division (Clintonville, Kaukauna, Kimberly, Menasha, Neenah, New London, Shawano and Two Rivers) seceded to form the Mid-Eastern Conference, while the Eastern Division continued play as the NEW Conference. Membership was very stable over the course of the conference's history with all eight members competing together for sixteen years of the conference's eighteen-year life span. The only school to exit the conference was Neenah, who did so in 1968 to join with larger schools in the Fox River Valley Conference. The Mid-Eastern Conference was dissolved in 1970 as part of sweeping realignment in northeastern and east central Wisconsin. The three largest schools in the conference (Kaukauna, Kimberly and Menasha) joined with four schools from the Fox River Valley Conference (Appleton East, Appleton West, Neenah and Oshkosh) to form the Fox Valley Association. The other four schools, which were all smaller in enrollment, were dispersed to other area conferences based on geography and size. Clintonville became a charter member of the Bay Conference, New London joined the new East Central Conference, Shawano entered the Wisconsin Valley Conference and Two Rivers became part of a revamped Fox River Valley Conference.
Conference membership history
Final members SchoolLocationAffiliationMascotColorsJoinedLeftConference JoinedCurrent ConferenceClintonvilleClintonville, WIPublicTruckers 19521970BayNorth EasternKaukaunaKaukauna, WIPublicGalloping Ghosts 19521970Fox Valley AssociationKimberlyKimberly, WIPublicPapermakers 19521970Fox Valley AssociationMenashaMenasha, WIPublicBlue Jays 19521970Fox Valley AssociationBayNew LondonNew London, WIPublicBulldogs 19521970East CentralBayShawanoShawano, WIPublicIndians 19521970Wisconsin ValleyBayTwo RiversTwo Rivers, WIPublicRaiders 19521970Fox River ValleyEastern Wisconsin
Previous members SchoolLocationAffiliationMascotColorsJoinedLeftConference JoinedCurrent ConferenceNeenahNeenah, WIPublicRockets 19521968Fox River ValleyFox Valley Association
Membership timeline
List of state champions
Fall sports +Boys Cross CountrySchoolYearDivisionNeenah1963Medium Schools +Boys VolleyballSchoolYearDivisionKaukauna1967Single DivisionKaukauna1969Single Division
Winter sports +Boys BasketballSchoolYearDivisionMenasha1953Single DivisionShawano1956Single DivisionShawano1957Single Division
Spring sports +BaseballSchoolYearDivisionKaukauna1953Single Division +Boys TennisSchoolYearDivisionNeenah1953Single DivisionNeenah1957Single DivisionMenasha1963Single DivisionMenasha1964Single DivisionNeenah1965Single DivisionMenasha1966Single Division +Boys Track & FieldSchoolYearDivisionKimberly1960Class B
List of conference champions
Boys Basketball SchoolQuantityYearsKimberly121954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970Menasha41953, 1954, 1964, 1965Neenah31961, 1967, 1968Shawano21953, 1958Two Rivers11957Clintonville0Kaukauna0New London0
Football SchoolQuantityYearsNeenah111952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967Menasha31952, 1953, 1958Kaukauna21960, 1961Kimberly21955, 1969Clintonville11959Two Rivers11968New London0Shawano0
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