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. Five of the conferences eight schools; Bosse, Central, Harrison, North, and Reitz; comprise the public

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. Mater Dei and Memorial are private

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, and the largest member is

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, a public school located in neighboring Newburgh in

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. The league was founded in 1936, and at one point stretched far across southern and western Indiana: from Mount Vernon in the west to New Albany in the east, and from Evansville in the south to Terre Haute in the north.

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and Vincennes Lincoln announced in May 2019 that they would leave the disbanding Big Eight Conference to rejoin the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference beginning with the 2020-21 season.

Member schools

# Due to making back-to-back state finals appearances, Evansville Reitz Memorial will compete in Class AAAA in football until 2021.

Former members

# Linton played concurrently in the SIAC and West Central Conference 1944-45, and the SIAC and WIC 1945-51. # Sullivan played in both the SIAC and West Central Conference 1944-45, and the SIAC and WIC 1945-62.

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:750 height:auto barincrement:22.5 Period = from:1935 till:2035 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:1935 till:1963 text: Bicknell (1935-1963) bar:2 color:red from:1935 till:1964 text: Bloomington (1995-2005) bar:3 color:red from:1935 till:end text: Evansville Bosse (1935-present) bar:4 color:red from:1935 till:end text: Evansville Central (1935-present) bar:5 color:red from:1935 till:end text: Evansville F.J. Reitz (1935-present) bar:6 color:red from:1935 till:1951 text:

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(1935-1940, 1942-1951) bar:7 color:red from:1935 till:1978 text: New Albany (1935-1978) bar:8 color:red from:1935 till:1980 text:

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(1954-present) bar:19 color:red from:1958 till:end text: Evansville North (1958-present) bar:20 color:red from:1959 till:1980 text:

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(1964-present) bar:25 color:red from:1971 till:1982 text: Terre Haute North (1971-1982) bar:26 color:red from:1971 till:1982 text: Terre Haute South] (1971-1982) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1935 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(175,30) # tabs:(0-center) text:"SIAC Membership History"

Conference championships

Football

Boys basketball

Boys cross country

Wrestling

Boys soccer

Boys tennis

Boys swimming

Baseball

Boys golf

Boys track and field

Volleyball

Girls basketball

Girls cross country

Girls soccer

Girls tennis

Girls swimming

Softball

Girls golf

Girls track and field

State titles

John H. Castle Knights

*Football (1982, 1994) *Boys Soccer (2000) *Girls Basketball (2006) *Softball (2001)

Evansville Benjamin Bosse Bulldogs

* Boys Basketball (1943, 1944, 1962)

Evansville Central Bears

None

Evansville William Henry Harrison Warriors

* Girls Golf (1989) * Boys Golf (2012)

Evansville Mater Dei Wildcats

* Baseball (1999) * Boys Basketball (2004) * Girls Basketball (2012, 2013) * Football (2001, 2022) * Wrestling (1986, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2021) * Softball (2016) * Girls Soccer (2017, 2018, 2019)

Evansville North Huskies

* Baseball (1962*) * Boys Basketball (1967) * Boys Golf (2000) * Girls Golf (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021) ''* = indicates title won before Indiana High School Athletic Association, IHSAA State Tournament was initiated''

Evansville Francis Joseph Reitz Panthers

* Girls Basketball (1981) * Football (1933*, 1940*, 1948*, 1953*, 1956*, 1957*, 1960*, 1961*, 1971*, 2007, 2009) * Bowling (2012+) ''* = indicates title won before Indiana High School Athletic Association, IHSAA State Tournament was initiated''
''+ = indicates title sanctioned by the Indiana High School Bowling Association''

Evansville Reitz Memorial Tigers

* Baseball (1978, 1989, 1993) * Football (1937*, 1958*, 2017, 2019) * Girls Soccer (1989*, 1997, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2021, 2022) * Softball (2002) * Girls Tennis (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2012) * Boys Soccer (1979*, 1980*, 1981*, 1983*, 1984*, 1986*, 1988*, 1989*, 1990*, 1992*, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020) * Girls Basketball (2011) ''* = indicates title won before Indiana High School Athletic Association, IHSAA State Tournament was initiated''

Neighboring conferences

Big Eight Conference The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Associatio ...

Pocket Athletic Conference The Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Indiana with its headquarters at Forest Park. Most of the conference's 13 members are mainly Class 2A and 3A public high schools currently located in Davi ...

References

{{Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) Indiana high school athletic conferences High school sports conferences and leagues in the United States Evansville, Indiana