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comprised of small schools in northeastern

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. Founded in 2017 and dissolved after the 2021 football season, its member schools were affiliated with the

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History

The MONLPC Football Conference was formed in 2017 by members of three conferences in northeastern Wisconsin: the Marinette & Oconto, Northern Lakes and Packerland. It was created in reaction to the increasing number of schools in the region that were transitioning to eight-player football and featured an eight-player division in addition to large-school and small-school divisions for eleven-player football: Even after the conference's formation, the influx of schools moving to eight-player football continued to drive the MONLPC's realignment.

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was the first member to do so after the 2017 season, followed by five more programs after the 2018 season ( Algoma, Elcho/ White Lake,

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, Three Lakes/ Phelps and Wabeno/ Laona). This allowed the Bowler/ Gresham and

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programs to join their primary home, the Central Wisconsin Conference, when they adopted an eight-player division in 2019.

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was shifted over to the MONLPC's small schools division in 2019, which would turn out to be the last for the two eleven-player divisions after they were realigned out of existence. This came after the WIAA and the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association unveiled a comprehensive realignment plan for Wisconsin's high school football conferences to be refreshed every two years. The nine displaced schools either joined a newly reconstituted Packerland Conference ( Kewaunee, Oconto,

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, Southern Door and

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) or the new Northwoods Football Conference (Coleman, Crandon,

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and Northern Elite). Another change brought by realignment was the MONLPC's change to a twelve-member, two-division conference sponsoring eight-player football only: This alignment would last until the 2022-2023 competition cycle, when the eight-player divisions of the MONLPC were shuttered, just as their eleven-player counterparts were two years earlier. Eight programs (Algoma,

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, Gillett,

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, NEW Lutheran/

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and Wausaukee) formed the new Across the Bay Conference, while the other four (Elcho/White Lake, Florence, Three Lakes/Phelps and Wabeno/Laona comprised two thirds of the new Northern Border Conference, along with Niagara and Goodman/

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after the breakup of the Northern Elite football cooperative.

Conference membership history

11-player

8-player

Membership timeline

11-player

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8-player

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List of state champions

List of conference champions

11-player

8-player

References

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