Illini Prairie Conference

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The Illini Prairie Conference is a high school athletic conference in the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), based in Central Illinois. The conference consists of ten medium-sized and small high schools and is a merger of the Corn Belt Conference and the Okaw Valley Conference. Conference athletics will begin in the 2017-18 school year.[1]

History

Member schools of the Corn Belt Conference and the Okaw Valley Conference began discussing a merger after the announced departures of Eureka High School and Mahomet-Seymour High School from the Corn Belt Conference in 2014 and 2015.[2] Principals of the ten schools voted unanimously in February 2016 to begin plans to merge the conferences.[3] School boards of the ten schools approved the new conference in March and April 2016.[4] Student bodies of each school submitted favorite names for the conference to the principals. Illini Prairie was selected unanimously by the principals.[5][6]

Member schools

School Community Team Name Colors IHSA class School type Year joined Joined from Year departed Departed for References
Central Catholic High School Bloomington Saints                1A/2A/3A Private 2017-18 Corn Belt [7]
Illinois Valley Central High School Chillicothe Grey Ghosts           4A Public 2017-18 Corn Belt [7][8]
Monticello High School Monticello Sages           4A Public 2017-18 Okaw Valley
Olympia High School Stanford Spartans                3A Public 2017-18 Corn Belt [7]
Pontiac Township High School Pontiac Indians 4A Public 2017-18 Corn Belt [7]
Prairie Central High School Fairbury Hawks 4A Public 2017-18 Corn Belt [7]
Rantoul Township High School Rantoul Eagles           4A Public 2017-18 Okaw Valley [8]
St. Joseph-Ogden High School St. Joseph Spartans                3A Public 2017-18 Okaw Valley
St. Thomas More High School Champaign Sabers           4A Private 2017-18 Okaw Valley
Unity High School Tolono Rockets           3A Public 2017-18 Okaw Valley

References

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External links

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