Metro West Conference is a high school athletic

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. The name is based on the location of the schools in the western part of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro area. The conference began in fall 2014. The conference was announced on March 5, 2013, by seven public schools (Bloomington Jefferson, Bloomington Kennedy, Chanhassen, Chaska, Richfield, Robbinsdale Cooper and St. Louis Park). In September 2013, the

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a private school, to the conference over the objections of the other schools. Richfield High School left in 2019. Kennedy left in 2022.

Member schools

Robbinsdale Cooper competes in the Northwest Suburban Conference for ice hockey in a co-op with Robbinsdale Armstrong.

Future members

On June 10, 2020 the conference voted to add New Prague, Orono, and Waconia starting in the fall of 2021.{{Citation needed, date=June 2021

References

External links

MetroWestConference.com

Member schools

Future members

References

External links

See also