The Olympic Conference was an IHSAA-sanctioned conference located within

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

, Fayette,

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, and

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counties. The conference was formed in 1971 by second (and third) high schools from

Anderson Anderson or Andersson may refer to: Companies * Anderson (Carriage), a company that manufactured automobiles from 1907 to 1910 * Anderson Electric, an early 20th-century electric car * Anderson Greenwood, an industrial manufacturer * Anderson ...

, Kokomo, and

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, and also included suburban

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schools that grew too large for their conferences at the time. Many suburban schools ended up outgrowing the Olympic as well, with former members now in the Metropolitan and Hoosier Crossroads "

superconference A superconference (also super-conference or super conference) is an athletic conference noted for its large number of members, significant revenue generation, and substantial power that it wields in comparison to at least some of its counterpart con ...

s," as the two contain many of the largest schools in the state. While hosting ten schools in two divisions at its largest, the conference spent the 2000s with five members, then four after Huntington North joined the

North Central Conference The North Central Conference (NCC), also known as North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, was a college athletic conference which operated in the north central United States. It participated in the NCAA's Division II. History The NCC ...

. With the closing of Anderson Highland after the 2009-2010 school year, as well as the possibility that Muncie Southside will close and be consolidated into Muncie Central in 2011, the conference decided to disband. Connersville joined the

Eastern Indiana Conference The Eastern Indiana Conference existed in Northeastern Indiana from 1953 to 1975. It consisted of schools from Adams, Blackford, Delaware, Jay, and Wells Counties. The conference is notable for having two county conferences (Adams and Jay) fo ...

in 2013, while Jay County joined 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 ...

in 2014. Southside remained open as an independent school until 2014

Former members

Conference Divisions, 1997-2000

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:750 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1971 till:2011 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:red from:1971 till:1984 text:

Haworth Haworth () is a village in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, in the Pennines, south-west of Keighley, west of Bradford and east of Colne in Lancashire. The surrounding areas include Oakworth and Oxenhope. Nearby villages inc ...

(1971-1984) bar:2 color:red from:1971 till:1997 text: Madison Heights (1971-1997) bar:3 color:red from:1971 till:1988 text: North Side (1971-1988) bar:4 color:red from:1971 till:2010 text:

Southside Southside or South Side may refer to: Places Australia * Southside, Queensland, a semi-rural locality in the Gympie Region Canada * South Side, Newfoundland and Labrador, a community in the St. George's Bay area on the southwest coast of Newf ...

(1971-2010) bar:5 color:red from:1974 till:1996 text:

Carmel Carmel may refer to: * Carmel (biblical settlement), an ancient Israelite town in Judea * Mount Carmel, a coastal mountain range in Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea * Carmelites, a Roman Catholic mendicant religious order Carmel may also ...

(1974-1996) bar:6 color:red from:1974 till:2003 text: Huntington North (1971-2003) bar:7 color:red from:1985 till:2010 text: Anderson Highland (1985-2010) bar:8 color:red from:1985 till:2010 text: Jay County (1985-2010) bar:9 color:red from:1985 till:2000 text:

Noblesville Noblesville is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Indiana, United States, a part of the north Indianapolis suburbs along the White River. The population was 51,969 at the 2010 census making it the state's 14th largest city/town ...

(1985-2000) bar:10 color:red from:1991 till:2010 text:

Connersville Connersville is a city in Fayette County, east central Indiana, United States, east by southeast of Indianapolis. The population was 13,481 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated town in F ...

(1991-2010) bar:11 color:red from:1997 till:2000 text: Brownsburg (1997-2000) bar:12 color:red from:1997 till:2000 text: Hamilton Southeastern (1997-2000) bar:13 color:red from:1997 till:2000 text:

Harrison Harrison may refer to: People * Harrison (name) * Harrison family of Virginia, United States Places In Australia: * Harrison, Australian Capital Territory, suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin In Canada: * Inukjuak, Quebec, or " ...

(1997-2000) bar:14 color:red from:1997 till:2000 text: McCutcheon (1997-2000) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1971 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(175,30) # tabs:(0-center) text:"Olympic Conference Membership History"

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