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The Flyway Conference is a former high school
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with its membership concentrated in east central
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. Founded in 1970 and disbanded in 2001, all of its members were affiliated with the
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.


History


1970-1999

The Flyway Conference was formed in 1970 by seven small- to medium-sized high schools in the lower Fox River Valley in east central Wisconsin. Three schools came from the disbanded Fox Valley Tri-County League (
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and Oakfield), two joined from the
Scenic Moraine Conference The Scenic Moraine Conference is a former high school athletic conference in Wisconsin, operating from 1958 to 1980 with its membership concentrated in the Kettle Moraine region. The conference and its member schools belonged to the Wisconsin Inte ...
( Campbellsport and North Fond du Lac), and one school each came from the
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( Dodgeland) and the
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( Horicon) after the latter's dissolution. Membership remained relatively stable through the history of the conference with few changes in the conference's first decade. Markesan joined the Flyway in 1977 to create an eight-member circuit, and in 1980, Dodgeland left to rejoin the Eastern Suburban Conference with Mayville taking its place from the Scenic Moraine Conference. With the exception of Oakfield joining the Central Lakeshore Conference as a football-only member in 1987 and Wautoma's entry as a football-only member in 1995, the Flyway Conference continued as an eight-school loop for nineteen seasons before any further realignment for most sports.


1999-2001

In 1999, two schools left to join the
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(Laconia and Markesan) along with Campbellsport's departure to 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 ...
. To counter the losses, four private schools joined as a result of the pending WIAA/ WISAA merger set to be finalized in 2000. Three schools joined from the Midwest Classic Conference ( Central Wisconsin Christian in
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, St. Lawrence Seminary in
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and
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in Fond du Lac) and St. Mary's Springs Academy in Fond du Lac joined from the former Fox Valley Christian Conference. Laconia and Markesan stayed on as football-only members for the last two seasons of the conference to counter the loss of Mayville and St. Mary's Springs to the East Central Conference for that sport. 2001 saw the end of the Flyway Conference as the merger agreement originally reached two years prior with the East Central Conference was finalized. The East Central Flyway Conference would begin play in the 2001-02 school year.


Conference membership history


Full members


Football-only members


Membership timeline


Full members

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Football members

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1970 till:2001 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:200 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:lavender from:1970 till:1999 text:Campbellsport (1970-1998) bar:2 color:lavender from:1970 till:1980 text:Dodgeland (1970-1979) bar:3 color:lavender from:1970 till:2001 text:Horicon (1970-2000) bar:4 color:lavender from:1970 till:2001 text:Lomira (1970-2000) bar:5 color:lavender from:1970 till:2001 text:North Fond du Lac (1970-2000) bar:6 color:lavender from:1970 till:1987 text:Oakfield (1970-1986) bar:7 color:lavender from:1970 till:2001 text:Rosendale-Brandon (1970-1972), Laconia (1972-2000) bar:8 color:lavender from:1977 till:2001 text:Markesan (1977-2000) bar:9 color:lavender from:1980 till:2001 text:Mayville (1980-2000) bar:10 color:lavender from:1999 till:2001 text:Winnebago Lutheran (1999-2000) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1970


List of state champions


Fall sports


Winter sports


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 1970 1999 establishments in Wisconsin 1999 disestablishments in Wisconsin