The Lakeshore Conference is a former high school

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with membership concentrated in southeastern

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. It was operational from 1997 to 2008, and all members belonged to the

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at the time of the conference's dissolution.

History

The Lakeshore Conference was formed in 1997 during a period of realignment among high school athletic conferences in Wisconsin. The five public high schools (

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, Union Grove,

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, Westosha Central and Wilmot Union) were all former members of the Eastern Division of the

Southern Lakes Conference The Southern Lakes Conference is a high school athletic conference with its membership based in southeastern Wisconsin. Founded in 1953, the conference and its member schools are affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association ...

, which was dissolved that year. The sixth member of the Eastern Division, Burlington, would go on to join the

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. The two private high schools ( St. Catherine's in

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and

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) were former members of the

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, which had been affiliated with the

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. In 1997, WISAA began a merger process with the WIAA that would be finished for the 2000-01 school year, which was the main catalyst for the Metro Conference's ending. The Lakeshore Conference maintained the same seven-member roster during the entirety of its eleven-year existence. In 2008, the five public high schools returned to the Southern Lakes Conference in a reversal of the realignment that had occurred eleven years earlier. That same year, St. Catherine's and St. Joseph both joined the Midwest Classic Conference, and both were part of a group of eight schools that split off from the conference to create the Metro Classic Conference in 2012.

Conference membership history

Membership timeline

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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 1997 1997 establishments in Wisconsin 2008 disestablishments in Wisconsin