The Lakeland Conference is an

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in the United States. Founded in 2022 with the inaugural season of play in 2022-2023, the conference is a reboot of the old

Lakeland Athletic Conference The Lakeland Athletic Conference was a high school athletic conference created in 1980 and disbanded in 2014. Founding members were Buchanan High School (Michigan), Buchanan Bucks, Berrien Springs Shamrocks, Brandywine Middle/Senior High School, ...

to which it shares a similar geographic footprint, school membership and historic rivalries.

Sponsored sports

The league offers competition in nine boys' and eight girls' sports.

Boys

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

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, Cross Country,

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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

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Sports by school

Girls

Competitive Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ent ...

, Cross Country,

Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

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Sports by school

Member schools

There are currently five member schools. The geographic footprint of the league includes Berrien and

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counties in Michigan.

Current members

School data in the table below is current for the 2023-24 season according to the MHSAA website.

Former members

Membership Timeline

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Conference championships

Baseball

Boys Basketball

Girls Basketball

Boys Cross Country

Girls Cross Country

Football

Boys Soccer

Girls Soccer

Softball

Volleyball

Wrestling

State championships

Schools that have participated in MHSAA state championship finals while being members of the Lakeland Conference.

References

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