The Lake Suburban Conference was a high school athletic conference serving schools in the
Indiana High School Athletic Association. The conference was formed in 1949 as the Calumet Athletic Conference, and disbanded in 1992. Most of its schools were located in
Lake County, though two members during the CAC period were from
Porter County.
History
The Calumet Athletic Conference was formed in 1949 by nine schools from Lake County. These schools were either
Gary
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Hammond
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metro area schools not involved in the
Northern Indiana Conference
The Northern Indiana Conference (NIC) is a high school athletic conference that was founded in 1927 and spanned from as far west as Hammond and Gary to South Bend/Mishawaka and Elkhart to the east and south to Plymouth. Since its start in 1927, a ...
, or suburban schools within the county. While membership did change, as three schools left to be Independent, two of those schools would return, along with other expansions, meant that two divisions would be utilized from 1963 to 1970.
1970 caused dramatic changes to the Calumet. Chesterton and Portage left to help found the
Duneland Athletic Conference
The Duneland Athletic Conference (DAC) is a high school athletic conference in Indiana serving eight members of the Indiana High School Athletic Association. Member schools are located in the counties of Lake, LaPorte, and Porter along Indiana's ...
, Gary Wirt joined with the other Gary schools in the
Northwestern Conference, and East Gary Edison would become an independent. Recently formed Munster was added, and the conference rebranded itself as the Lake Suburban Conference. Membership was much more stable, as the only change afterwards was Merrillville leaving for the Duneland. However, by the early 1990s, suburban growth had caused the conference to become unbalanced enrollment-wise. This led to the 1993 breakup of the LSC. Crown Point would become the Duneland's 8th member. Lowell would join the
Northwest Hoosier Conference The Northwest Hoosier Conference was an Indiana High School Athletic Association, IHSAA-sanctioned conference based in northwestern Indiana. The conference was started by five schools in 1968, and faced numerous membership changes during its span. T ...
, which had a wide footprint that Lowell was firmly in the middle of. Lake Central would play as an independent for the next decade, eventually taking former CAC member Hobart's place in the Duneland. The remaining four schools joined with the remnants of the Indiana Lake Shore Conference to form the
Lake 10 Conference.
Membership
Divisions 1963-70
Boys State Champions
*Swimming (8): 1973-Munster, 1974-Munster, 1975-Munster, 1976-Munster, 1977-Munster, 1979-Munster, 1980-Munster, 1987-Lake Central
*Tennis (1): 1971-Crown Point
Girls State Champions
*Basketball (2): 1984-Crown Point, 1985-Crown Point
*Softball (1): 1992-Lake Central
*Swimming (3): 1976-Munster, 1977-Munster, 1978-Munster
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