The Northern State Conference is a newly reformed conference that has existed since 1954. The conference went through many changes in membership and ultimately dissolved in 2015 when all of its members left for other conferences. Starting in the 2024-2025 school year, the conference will be reformed with six new schools:

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, Jimtown,

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, Knox, LaVille, and Tippecanoe Valley. The earlier NSC lasted from 1954 to 1963, including schools from Carroll, Elkhart,

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, and Starke counties. Jimtown was the only holdover from the earlier conference into the modern one, though

and Knox did join the current version in the 1980s. In 2013,

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and Knox announced that they would be leaving the conference after the 2014–2015 school year in order to join the

Hoosier North Athletic Conference The Hoosier North Athletic Conference is an IHSAA-sanctioned conference in northwestern Indiana, that began in 2015. The conference contains eight schools in six counties (Cass, Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, St. Joseph, and Starke), but may expan ...

with three schools from the Midwest Conference and Independent North Judson. LaVille and

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decided to join the HNAC at the same time. The remaining four schools joined the

Northern Indiana Athletic 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 ...

, ensuring the end of the conference. In 2023, six schools decided to leave their current conferences and join a reformed Northern State Conference. Knox and LaVille from the

announced that they would be leaving.

and Jimtown from the

, and Tippecanoe Valley from the

Three Rivers Conference (Indiana) The Three Rivers Conference is a high school athletic conference in northeast Indiana, consisting of schools in Fulton, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, and Whitley counties.http://www.nmcs.k12.in.us/TRC/index.html History The conference was formed ...

would all be joining. The new conference would be in effect starting in the 2024-2025 school year.https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/04/05/south-bend-area-high-schools-announce-formation-of-new-conference-bremen-laville-glenn-jimtown/70084667007/

Membership from 2024-Current

Membership up to 2015

Old Northern State Conference Membership

# Jimtown was known as Baugo Township until 1961.

State championships

Bremen (2)

* 1989 Football (A) * 1994 Football (2A)

Culver Community (0)

Glenn (0)

Jimtown (6)

* 1974 Boys Gymnastics * 1991 Football (A) * 1997 Football (2A) * 1998 Football (2A) * 2004 Boys Basketball (2A) * 2005 Football (2A)

Knox Community (0)

New Prairie (0)

Triton (4)

* 2000 Girls Basketball (A) * 2001 Girls Basketball (A) * 2001 Baseball (A) * 2008 Boys Basketball (A)

Resources

IHSAA Conferences

IHSAA Directory

References

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