The Saginaw Valley High School Association (commonly referred to as the Saginaw Valley League) is a high school sports league formed in 1904 within the

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(MHSAA), located in the

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, Genesee,

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, Lapeer, Midland, and

Saginaw Saginaw () is a city in Saginaw County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. It had a population of 44,202 at the 2020 census. Located along the Saginaw River, Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of ...

counties in

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area.

History

SVL was formed in the fall of 1904 with five teams: Bay City Eastern (Bay City Central), Bay City Handy (Bay City Western), Saginaw Eastern (Saginaw High), Arthur Hill, and Flint High (Flint Central). In August 2012, the final four teams of the Big Nine Conference, Carman-Ainsworth, Davison, Flint Powers Catholic and Flushing, joined the league in its South Division. With the

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losing Lapeer East and Lapeer West, Flushing and Carman-Ainsworth applied to join that league with Flushing's membership approved starting in the 2014-15 year. Bay City John Glenn joined in 2017, but left in 2020. Grand Blanc joined in 2018. Starting in 2021, Saginaw and Saginaw Arthur Hill formed a co-op team football in preparation for a high school merger. Traverse City Central and Traverse City West announced they would be joining the Red Division in 2022 as football-only members.

Member schools

The Saginaw Valley League currently has 14 member schools.

Current members

Former members

*From 1969–1979, the Conference splint into a Saginaw Valley East and a Saginaw Valley West Conference. Many Conference Realignments happened during this time.

Membership Timeline since 1950

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:850 height:auto barincrement:30 Period = from:1950 till:2030 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:20 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:m bar:1 color:powderblue from:1950 till:1969 text: Bay City Central (1950–1977, 1979–present) bar:1 color:green from:1969 till:1977 text: bar:1 color:green from:1979 till:1980 text: bar:1 color:powderblue from:1980 till:end text: bar:2 color:powderblue from:2017 till:2020 text: Bay City Glenn (2017–2020) bar:3 color:powderblue from:1961 till:1969 text: Bay City Handy (1961–1977, 1979) bar:3 color:orange from:1969 till:1977 text: bar:3 color:orange from:1979 till:1980 text: bar:4 color:green from:1974 till:1977 text: Bay City Western (1974–1977, 1979–present) bar:4 color:green from:1979 till:end text: bar:4 color:powderblue from:1980 till:end text: bar:5 color:powderblue from:2012 shift:(-100,-5) till:end text: Carman-Ainsworth (2012–present) bar:6 color:powderblue from:2012 shift:(-50,-5) till:end text: Davison (2012–present) bar:7 color:powderblue from:1950 till:2009 text: Flint Central (1950–2009) bar:7 color:green from:1969 till:1980 text: bar:7 color:powderblue from:1980 till:2009 text: bar:8 color:powderblue from:1950 till:1980 text: Flint Northern (1950–2013) bar:8 color:orange from:1969 till:1980 text: bar:8 color:powderblue from:1980 till:2013 text: bar:9 color:powderblue from:1969 till:1969 text: Flint Northwestern (1969–2001, 2012–2017) bar:9 color:orange from:1969 till:1980 text: bar:9 color:powderblue from:1980 till:2001 text: bar:9 color:powderblue from:2012 till:2017 text: bar:10 color:powderblue from:1961 till:2019 text: Flint Southwestern/Flint Southwestern Academy (1961–2019) bar:10 color:green from:1969 till:1980 text: bar:11 color:powderblue from:2012 shift:(-50,-5) till:2014 text:

Flushing Flushing may refer to: Places Netherlands * Flushing, Netherlands, an English name for the city of Vlissingen, Netherlands United Kingdom * Flushing, Cornwall, a village in Cornwall, England * The Flushing, a building in Suffolk, England ...

(2012–2014) bar:12 color:powderblue from:2018 shift:(-125,-5) till:end text:

Grand Blanc Grand Blanc is a city in Genesee County, Michigan, Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and a suburb of Flint, Michigan, Flint. The population was 7,784 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 US Census. It is part of the Flint metrop ...

(2018–present) bar:13 color:powderblue from:2014 shift:(-50,-5) till:end text: Lapeer (2014–present) bar:14 color:orange from:1971 till:1975 text: Midland H.H. Dow (1971–1975, 1981–present) bar:14 color:powderblue from:1981 till:end text: bar:15 color:powderblue from:1961 till:end text: Midland (1961–present) bar:15 color:green from:1969 till:1980 text: bar:15 color:powderblue from:1980 till:end text: bar:16 color:powderblue from:2005 shift:(-15,-5) till:end text: Mount Pleasant (2005–present) bar:17 color:powderblue from:1950 till:1951 text: Owosso (1950–1951) bar:18 color:powderblue from:1950 till:1969 text: Pontiac Central (1950–1978, 1980, 1982–1994) bar:18 color:orange from:1969 till:1978 text: bar:18 color:powderblue from:1980 till:1981 text: bar:18 color:powderblue from:1982 till:1994 text: bar:19 color:powderblue from:2012 shift:(-75,-5) till:2022 text: Powers Catholic (2012–2022) bar:20 color:powderblue from:1950 till:1969 text: Saginaw Arthur Hill (1950–2024) bar:20 color:orange from:1969 till:1980 text: bar:20 color:powderblue from:1980 till:2024 text: bar:21 color:powderblue from:1994 till:end text: Saginaw Heritage (1994–present) bar:22 color:powderblue from:1950 till:1969 text:

(1950–2024) bar:22 color:green from:1969 till:1980 text: bar:22 color:powderblue from:1980 till:2024 text: bar:23 color:powderblue from:2024 till:end text: Saginaw United (2024–present) bar:24 color:pink from:2022 till:end text:

Traverse City Central High School Traverse City Central High School (also known as Central High School, TC Central, or simply TCC) is a public education, public high school in Traverse City, Michigan. It is one of two comprehensive high schools in the Traverse City Area Public Sc ...

(2022–present) bar:25 color:pink from:2022 till:end text: Traverse City West Senior High School (2022–present) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:10 start:1950 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(250,30) # tabs:(0-center) text:"Saginaw Valley League Membership History"

List of Saginaw Valley League Conference Champions

2011 -2012 Dow High School Athletic Handbook. *2011–2012 Midland High School Athletic Handbook.

Recent SVL Champions

Basketball

References

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