The Northeast Corner Conference is an twelve-member
Indiana High School Athletic Association
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(IHSAA)-sanctioned conference based in Northeast Indiana. Its schools are located within
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Steuben, and
Whitley counties.
History
The conference was formed as the Bi-County Conference in 1964, as the formations of
Lakeland and
Prairie Heights left Lagrange and Steuben Counties with only seven schools total. Angola already competed in the
Northeastern Indiana Athletic Conference The Northeastern Indiana Athletic Conference was an IHSAA-Sanctioned Athletic Conference from 1927 to 1988.
Former members
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, and Lakeland decided to compete independently. The five remaining schools started the conference, though Shipshewanna-Scott and Topeka were due to consolidate by 1966, while Fremont and Hamilton also participated in the
State Corner Conference
The State Corner Conference was an IHSAA-sanctioned conference located in far Northeast Indiana. The conference started in 1935 competing in basketball, football, and track. The league survived a major shakeup in 1941 as half of the original leagu ...
, while staying with their other Steuben County schools. Meanwhile, at that point the five remaining Noble County schools were set to consolidate into two schools themselves, and were also needing new conference affiliation. They joined with the Bi-County Conference teams, and changed their name to the current NECC. Howe Military also joined that year.
Other schools to join since then were Lakeland in 1974, Fairfield in 1980, Garrett in 1981, Eastside in 1983, and Angola and Churubusco in 1989. Howe Military left in 1980, and Garrett followed in 2005 (before rejoining in 2014).
Membership
# Fremont and Hamilton were concurrent members of the Bi-County and
State Corner conferences from 1964 to 1967.
# Garrett was a member of the
Allen County Athletic Conference
The Allen County Athletic Conference (ACAC) is a seven-member Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) conference. While all of its charter schools are and were located in Allen County, it also has member schools from Adams, Jay, and W ...
from 2005 to 2014.
Former members
Football divisions
With Garrett returning to the conference, football will return to the divisional format used between 1989 and 2005. The divisions have always been labeled as Division I (small school) and Division II (large school).
Conference champions
(Note) These are LEAGUE champs from 1966–present
Football
Howe (then Howe Military) left in 1980. Hamilton dropped football in 1986.
Boys basketball
Girls basketball
Boys Baseball
No champion was crowned in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Softball
No champion was crowned in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Volleyball
Boys Tennis
Girls Tennis
No champion was crowned in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Wrestling
West noble 2006, 2007
Resources
IHSAA ConferencesIHSAA Directory
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