The Tri-County Conference (TCC) is an athletic conference consisting of both public and parochial

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located in Camden County,

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, Gloucester County and

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. Although it is called the ''Tri''-County Conference, five counties are represented. The Tri-County Conference operates under the aegis of the

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History

The conference was first established in

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, and has four divisions: Royal, Diamond, Classic, and Liberty. The Liberty Division was added in 2018 to close the student disparity gap in order to create better competition in each division and more competitive crossover games. The new division applies to all sports except girls cross country, winter track, swimming, and wrestling.

Timber Creek Regional High School Timber Creek Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades located in the Erial section in southern Gloucester Township in Camden County, New Jersey, United State ...

announced in 2018 that they would leave the Olympic Conference and join the Tri-County Conference for the 2020-21 school year, which would have the benefit of having all three schools in the Black Horse Pike District competing in the same athletic conference.

Gloucester City Junior-Senior High School Gloucester City High School is a comprehensive four-year community public high school that is based in Gloucester City, in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school serves students from seventh through twelfth grade as the lo ...

, one of the schools that had been part of the conference since its inception, left the Tri-County Conference for the Colonial Conference, and was replaced by Overbrook High School, which returned to the Tri-County Conference after being a member of the Colonial Conference from 2008 to 2020.

Hammonton High School Hammonton High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hammonton, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hammonton ...

had been a member of the Tri-County Conference from 2014 to 2020, before returning to the

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for the 2020-21 school year. Washington Township High School announced in 2021 that they would leave the Olympic Conference and join the Tri-County Conference for the 2022-23 school year

Member schools

Schools in the conference are:League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021

. Accessed October 20, 2020.

References

External links

Tri County ConferenceSouth Jersey Sports high school list
{{Tri-County Conference New Jersey high school athletic conferences Camden County, New Jersey Sports in Gloucester County, New Jersey Salem County, New Jersey