The East Central Flyway Conference is a former high school

athletic conference An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams which play competitively against each other in a sports league. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller Division (sport), divisions, with the best teams competing at successively ...

Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...

, competing from 2001 to 2007. All members belonged to the

Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) is the regulatory body for all high school sports in Wisconsin. Its history dates to 1895, making it the earliest continually existing high school athletic organization in the country. ...

History

The East Central Flyway Conference was created in 2001 from a merger of two previously established conferences for small schools in east central Wisconsin. Eight members (

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

Laconia Laconia or Lakonia (, , ) is a historical and Administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Greece located on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Its administrative capital is Sparti (municipality), Sparta. The word ...

, Lourdes Academy in Oshkosh, Markesan, Omro,

Ripon Ripon () is a cathedral city and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Within the boundaries of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, the ...

, Wautoma and Winneconne) were formerly in the

East Central Conference The East Central Conference is a high school athletic conference in Wisconsin. Originally founded in 1970, it was disbanded in 2001 and remained defunct until its reconstitution in 2015. It will be dissolved again after 2024-25 school year, and al ...

and nine schools came from the Flyway Conference ( Central Wisconsin Christian in

Waupun Waupun is a city in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 11,344 at the 2020 census. Of this, 7,795 were in Dodge County, and 3,549 were in Fond du Lac County. In Fond du Lac County, the Town of Waup ...

, Horicon,

Lomira Lomira is a village in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,678 at the 2020 census. The village is located within the Town of Lomira, at the crossroads of State Highways 49, 67 and 175, and Interstate 41. History T ...

, Mayville, North Fond du Lac, Oakfield, St. Lawrence Seminary in

Mount Calvary Calvary ( or ) or Golgotha () was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, Jesus was crucified. Since at least the early medieval period, it has been a destination for pilgrimage. ...

, and St. Mary’s Springs and Winnebago Lutheran, both out of Fond du Lac). The conference was separated into two divisions with the ECC schools forming the Lakes Division and the Flyway members comprising the Rivers Division: The first membership changes occurred in 2004, when Central Wisconsin Christian and St. Lawrence Seminary left the East Central Flyway. Central Wisconsin Christian joined the Trailways Conference while St. Lawrence became an independent.

, formerly of the Wisconsin Little Ten Conference, joined the Lakes Division with Laconia moving over to the Rivers Division: The most significant change came two years later when ten schools left the conference. Six schools from the Rivers Division (Horicon, Laconia, Lomira, Mayville, North Fond du Lac and St. Mary’s Springs) joined with Kettle Moraine Lutheran in

Jackson Jackson may refer to: Places Australia * Jackson, Queensland, a town in the Maranoa Region * Jackson North, Queensland, a locality in the Maranoa Region * Jackson South, Queensland, a locality in the Maranoa Region * Jackson oil field in Durham, ...

in forming the

Wisconsin Flyway Conference The Wisconsin Flyway Conference is a high school athletic conference with its membership concentrated in east central Wisconsin. It was founded in 2006 and all members belong to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. History The W ...

, three schools (Lourdes Academy, Markesan and Oakfield) became members of the Trailways Conference, and Wautoma joined the South Central Conference. The remaining six schools continued competition for one more season before disbanding in 2007. Four schools (Berlin, Omro, Ripon and Winneconne) became charter members of the Eastern Valley Conference, Waupun was accepted into the

Eastern Wisconsin Conference The Eastern Wisconsin Conference is a high school athletic conference with its membership based in east central Wisconsin. It existed in two incarnations: the original conference from 1923 to 1970 and the current one since 1979. The conference an ...

and Winnebago Lutheran joined the Wisconsin Flyway Conference.

Football

For football, the East Central Flyway Conference was partitioned into the Lakes and Rivers divisions just like it was for other sports, with a few differences in alignment. Mayville and St. Mary's Springs swapped divisions with Laconia, Lourdes Academy and Markesan, and Waupun was a football-only member of the conference until 2004, when they left the Wisconsin Little Ten Conference to become an all-sport member of the ECFC. Central Wisconsin Christian and St. Lawrence Seminary did not sponsor football and, therefore, did not participate: For the 2003 football season, the conference lost Lourdes Academy to the Midwest Classic Conference and Oakfield to the large-school division of the Trailways Conference. St. Mary's Springs moved over to the Rivers Division to keep an even seven members per division until the formation of the Wisconsin Flyway Conference broke up ECFC membership in 2006.

Conference membership history

Full members

Football-only members

Membership timeline

Full members

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:2001 till:2007 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:m bar:1 color:blue from:2001 till:2006 text:Berlin (2001-2007) bar:1 color:tan1 from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:2 color:skyblue from:2001 till:2004 text:Central Wisconsin Christian (2001-2004) bar:3 color:skyblue from:2001 till:2006 text:Horicon (2001-2006) bar:4 color:blue from:2001 till:2004 text:Laconia (2001-2006) bar:4 color:skyblue from:2004 till:2006 text: bar:5 color:skyblue from:2001 till:2006 text:Lomira (2001-2006) bar:6 color:blue from:2001 till:2006 text:Lourdes Academy (2001-2006) bar:7 color:blue from:2001 till:2006 text:Markesan (2001-2006) bar:8 color:skyblue from:2001 till:2006 text:Mayville (2001-2006) bar:9 color:skyblue from:2001 till:2006 text:North Fond du Lac (2001-2006) bar:10 color:skyblue from:2001 till:2006 text:Oakfield (2001-2006) bar:11 color:blue from:2001 till:2006 text:Omro (2001-2007) bar:11 color:tan1 from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:12 color:blue from:2001 till:2006 text:Ripon (2001-2007) bar:12 color:tan1 from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:13 color:skyblue from:2001 till:2004 text:St. Lawrence Seminary (2001-2004) bar:14 color:skyblue from:2001 till:2006 text:St. Mary's Springs (2001-2006) bar:15 color:blue from:2001 till:2006 text:Wautoma (2001-2006) bar:16 color:skyblue from:2001 till:2006 text:Winnebago Lutheran (2001-2007) bar:16 color:tan1 from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:17 color:blue from:2001 till:2006 text:Winneconne (2001-2007) bar:17 color:tan1 from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:18 color:skyblue from:2004 till:2006 text:Waupun (2004-2007) bar:18 color:tan1 from:2006 till:2007 text: ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:1 start:2001

Football members

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:2001 till:2007 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:m bar:1 color:green from:2001 till:2006 text:Berlin (2001-2006) bar:1 color:lavender from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:2 color:yellowgreen from:2001 till:2006 text:Horicon (2001-2005) bar:3 color:yellowgreen from:2001 till:2006 text:Laconia (2001-2005) bar:4 color:yellowgreen from:2001 till:2006 text:Lomira (2001-2005) bar:5 color:yellowgreen from:2001 till:2003 text:Lourdes Academy (2001-2002) bar:6 color:yellowgreen from:2001 till:2006 text:Markesan (2001-2005) bar:7 color:green from:2001 till:2006 text:Mayville (2001-2005) bar:8 color:yellowgreen from:2001 till:2006 text:North Fond du Lac (2001-2005) bar:9 color:yellowgreen from:2001 till:2003 text:Oakfield (2001-2002) bar:10 color:green from:2001 till:2006 text:Omro (2001-2006) bar:10 color:lavender from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:11 color:green from:2001 till:2006 text:Ripon (2001-2006) bar:11 color:lavender from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:12 color:green from:2001 till:2003 text:St. Mary's Springs (2001-2005) bar:12 color:yellowgreen from:2003 till:2006 text: bar:13 color:green from:2001 till:2006 text:Waupun (2001-2006) bar:13 color:lavender from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:14 color:green from:2001 till:2006 text:Wautoma (2001-2005) bar:15 color:yellowgreen from:2001 till:2006 text:Winnebago Lutheran (2001-2006) bar:15 color:lavender from:2006 till:2007 text: bar:16 color:green from:2001 till:2006 text:Winneconne (2001-2006) bar:16 color:lavender from:2006 till:2007 text: ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:1 start:2001

List of state champions

Fall sports

Winter sports

None

Spring sports

List of conference champions

Boys Basketball

Girls Basketball

Football

References

{{Wisconsin high school athletic conferences Wisconsin high school sports conferences Sports organizations established in 2001 2001 establishments in Wisconsin 2007 disestablishments in Wisconsin