The Peninsula Conference is a former high school
athletic conference
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with its membership concentrated in northeastern Wisconsin. It was founded in 1933 and disbanded in 1970, and all public school 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 Peninsula Conference was formed in 1933 by six small high schools in northeastern Wisconsin:
Brussels
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,
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*Casco, Missouri, a ghost town
*Casco, Wisconsin, a village
*Casco (town), ...
,
Gibraltar
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,
Luxemburg
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,
Mishicot and
Sevastopol
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.
It was named the Peninsula Conference because its six members were located in or near the
Door Peninsula
The Door Peninsula is a peninsula in eastern Wisconsin, separating the southern part of the Green Bay from Lake Michigan. The peninsula includes northern Kewaunee County, northeastern Brown County, and the mainland portion of Door Count ...
, and the conference featured schools from
Door
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,
Kewaunee and
Manitowoc Counties. Because of its geography and lack of proximity to similarly-sized schools, conference membership remained relatively stable over the course of its history. In 1962, Brussels High School was replaced by
Southern Door High School due to the consolidation of local school districts.
Consolidation claimed another member of the conference in 1967 when Luxemburg and Casco merged to form
Luxemburg-Casco High School
Luxemburg-Casco High School (known informally as L-C) is a public high school located in Luxemburg, Wisconsin, United States. It serves the greater Luxemburg-Casco area, and was founded in 1968 as a result of a merger between the school district ...
.
To keep membership at six schools, the Peninsula Conference added
Manitowoc Lutheran, who were former members of the
Kettle Moraine Conference
The Kettle Moraine Conference is a former high school athletic conference with its membership concentrated in Wisconsin, Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine region. It existed from 1928 to 1969 and all public school members were affiliated with the Wiscon ...
.
The Peninsula Conference would be realigned out of existence in 1970, as part of a larger realignment of high school conferences in northeastern Wisconsin.
Three of the outgoing schools (Gibraltar, Manitowoc Lutheran and Sevastopol) formed the nucleus of the new
Bay-Lakes Conference
The Bay-Lakes Conference is a former high school athletic conference in northeast Wisconsin, operating from 1970 to 1979. Its public school members belonged to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association and its private school members were ...
, two schools (Luxemburg-Casco and Southern Door) joined the new
Packerland Conference
The Packerland Conference is an athletic conference of high schools located in northeastern Wisconsin. Formed in 1970, the conference and its member schools are affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
History
1970- ...
and Mishicot became a charter member of the
Olympian Conference.
Conference membership history
Full members
Football-only members
Membership timeline
Full members
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Football members
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List of conference champions
Boys Basketball
Football
References
{{Wisconsin high school athletic conferences
Wisconsin high school sports conferences
Sports organizations established in 1933
1933 establishments in Wisconsin
1970 disestablishments in Wisconsin