The Metro Alliance was a

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-sanctioned athletics conference that existed from 1997 to 2005. The conference was formed for the 1997-98 school year by seven schools. The majority of the schools came from the

Tri-Metro Conference The Tri-Metro Conference is a MSHSL-sanctioned athletic conference composed of schools found in the Twin Cities metro area. The conference competes in the majority of sports offered in the MSHSL. Most teams in the Tri-Metro compete in basketball a ...

and included Brooklyn Center High School,

Mahtomedi High School Mahtomedi Senior High School is a four-year public high school located in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, United States. The school houses grades 912 with a total population of approximately 1,146 students. About 22% of this population are from surrounding ...

Mound Westonka High School Mound Westonka High School is a grades 812 public high school in Mound, Minnesota, United States. Mound Westonka competes in the Wright County Conference. Mound Westonka, located west of Lake Minnetonka, serves the westernmost portion of the lake ...

, Orono High School, and

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Columbia Heights High School Columbia may refer to: * Columbia (personification), the historical female national personification of the United States, and a poetic name for America Places North America Natural features * Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in ...

and

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, the other two founding members of the conference, left the North Suburban Conference to join. Farmington High School declined an invitation to be an eighth founding member; however,

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ultimately joined the conference as final school. The break-up of the short-lived conference began soon after it formed. Mahtomedi left the Metro Alliance to join the new

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at the end of the 2000-01 school year. When the conference broke up in 2005, Fridley and Benilde-St. Margaret's joined the North Suburban Conference. St. Anthony and Brooklyn Center returned to the Tri-Metro after being placed by the Minnesota State High School League.

Membership history

- 1997-2005 *

Brooklyn Center Brooklyn Center is a first-ring suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. In 1911, the area became a village formed from parts of Brooklyn Township and Crystal Lake Township. I ...

- 1997-2005 * Columbia Heights - 1997-2005 *

Fridley Fridley is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 29,590 at the 2020 census. Fridley was incorporated in 1949 as a village, and became a city in 1957. It is part of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area as ...

- 1997-2005 *

Mahtomedi Mahtomedi ( ) is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 7,676 at the 2010 census. Mahtomedi is considered to be a suburb of St. Paul, and is located between St. Paul and Stillwater. Geography Mahtomedi i ...

- 1997-2001 * Mound Westonka - 1997-2005 * Orono - 1997-2005 *

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- 1997-2005

Rivalries

*Columbia Heights vs. St. AnthonyLa Vaque, David. "Revived Highway 65." ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune'', September 28, 2005.

Notable athletes

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References

Minnesota high school sports conferences