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Mid-Northern Conference
The Big Northern Conference (BNC) is an organization of ten high schools in northern Illinois. These high schools are members of the Illinois High School Association. The high schools of the Big Northern Conference are located in the following counties: Boone County, Illinois, Boone, DeKalb County, Illinois, DeKalb, LaSalle County, Illinois, LaSalle, Lee County, Illinois, Lee, Ogle County, Illinois, Ogle, Whiteside County, Illinois, Whiteside, and Winnebago County, Illinois, Winnebago. History The conference was formed in 1991 as a American football, football-only union of the Big Eight Conference and the Mid-Northern Conference. The original 12 members consisted of six Big Eight schools (Central High School (Burlington, Illinois), Burlington Central, Genoa-Kingston High School, Genoa-Kingston, Hampshire High School (Illinois), Hampshire, Harvard High School (Illinois), Harvard, Marengo Community High School, Marengo, and Richmond-Burton Community High School, Richmond-Burton) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois High School Association
The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) is an association that regulates competition of interscholastic sports and some interscholastic activities at the high school level for the state of Illinois. It is a charter member of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). The IHSA regulates 14 sports for boys, 15 sports for girls, and eight co-educational non-athletic activities. More than 760 public and private high schools in the state of Illinois are members of the IHSA. The Association's offices are in Bloomington, Illinois. In its over 100 years of existence, the IHSA has been at the center of many controversies. Some of these controversies (inclusion of sports for girls, the inclusion of private schools, drug testing, and the use of the term "March Madness") have had national resonance, or paralleled the struggles seen in other states across the country. Other controversies (geographic advancement of teams to the state playoff series, struggles between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
