The South Iowa Cedar League is a

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in south central and southeastern

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. The conference is made up of mostly 1A schools, as well as a few 2A schools (the two smallest classes in the state). A 9-team league from the 1960s, the conference expanded to 12 teams in 1996, then dropped to 11 members when Williamsburg joined the Eastern Iowa Hawkeye Conference in 2000. In the fall of 2014, the schools of the SICL voted to allow Colfax–Mingo to join the SICL, making it a 12-team league again.

Members

East Division

West Division

Sports

Boys' sports are administered through the

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, and girls' sports are administered through the

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. Sports classes for each are based on enrollment. Football is played by districts based on their enrollment classification and geography, instead of by conference. Most SICL schools are in Class A, the smallest of five classifications for the 11-man football game, although Sigourney-Keota -- which has had a cooperative agreement since 1987 -- is Class 1A. As of 2019, four SICL schools -- Iowa Valley, English Valleys, HLV and Tri-County -- play

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. The conference offers the following sports: * Fall —

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, boys'

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and girls' cross-country. * Winter — Boys'

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, girls' basketball and boys'

wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

and girls' wrestling. * Spring — Boys'

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, girls' track and field, boys'

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and girls' golf. * Summer —

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and

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. Although the member schools field junior varsity teams (for freshman and sophomore athletes) in many of the above-mentioned sports, conference championships are determined at varsity level only. Also, not all schools field teams in every sport, while others are part of cooperative sharing agreements with schools within and outside the SICL.

State championships

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1400 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1936 till:2024 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:20 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 #> to display a count on left side of graph, use "left:20" to suppress the count, use "left:20"<# Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:Full value:rgb(0.25,0.88,0.50) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports id:FullxF value:rgb(0.551,0.824,0.777) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports except for football id:AssocF value:rgb(0.98,0.5,0.445) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for football only id:AssocOS value:rgb(0.5,0.691,0.824) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in some sports, but not all (consider identifying in legend or a footnote) id:OtherC1 value:rgb(0.75,0.75,0.75) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference id:OtherC2 value:rgb(0.988,0.703,0.383) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference where OtherC1 has already been used, to distinguish the two PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:Full from:1936 till:end text: Belle Plaine (1936–present) bar:2 color:Full from:1936 till:1958 text:Brooklyn (1936–1958) bar:2 color:Full from:1958 till:end text: B-G-M (1958–present) bar:3 color:Full from:1936 till:1958 text:Marengo (1936–1958) bar:3 color:Full from:1958 till:end text: Iowa Valley (1958–present) bar:4 color:Full from:1936 till:end text: Montezuma (1936–present) bar:5 color:Full from:1936 till:1962 text:Tama (1936–1962) bar:5 color:OtherC1 from:1962 till:end text:(1962–present WaMaC currently) bar:6 color:Full from:1936 till:1962 text:Toledo (1936–1962) bar:6 color:OtherC1 from:1962 till:end text:(1962–present WaMaC currently) bar:7 color:Full from:1951 till:end text: Sigourney (1951–present) bar:8 color:Full from:1959 till:2000 text: Williamsburg (1960–2000) bar:8 color:OtherC1 from:2000 till:end text:(2000–present WaMaC) bar:9 color:Full from:1962 till:end text: English Valleys (1962–present) bar:10 color:Full from:1962 till:end text: HLV (1962–present) bar:11 color:Full from:1962 till:end text: Keota (1962–present) bar:12 color:Full from:1986 till:end text: Tri-County (1986–present) bar:13 color:Full from:1996 till:end text: Lynnville–Sully (1996–present) bar:14 color:Full from:1996 till:end text: North Mahaska(1996–present) bar:15 color:Full from:2015 till:end text: Colfax–Mingo(2015–present) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:4 start:1936

External links

South Iowa Cedar League Roster

References

{{Iowa High School Athletic Conferences High school sports in Iowa