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The Scenic Bluffs Conference is a high school
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. Founded in 1979, its members are small schools concentrated in the southern part of the state's
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. All conference members belong to the
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History

The Scenic Bluffs Conference was formed in 1979 when the larger Scenic Central Conference split into two smaller conferences from its existing Northern and Southern divisions. The core of the Scenic Bluffs membership came from the Northern Division of the former Scenic Central ( Bangor, Brookwood,
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, Hillsboro, New Lisbon and Wonewoc-Center). Necedah joined from the
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, and Royall (who had previously been a Scenic Central member) joined from the
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to round out the Scenic Bluffs Conference's membership roster. The roster of full members has not experienced any changes over the history of the conference.


Football

The Scenic Bluffs Conference has sponsored football throughout its history, starting with the eight original members of the conference. After Brookwood dropped their football program after the 1979 season, the conference dropped to seven members for football until
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moved over from the Ridge & Valley Conference as football-only members for the 1982 season. They would play in the conference until the 2001 season, by which time Brookwood reinstated their football program and the two schools swapped affiliations to their primary conferences. Wonewoc-Center left the Scenic Bluffs football conference after the 2015 season to join the Ridge & Valley Conference as part of a cooperative program with R&V members
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. The Scenic Bluffs Conference remained at seven football members until the 2020 season, when a comprehensive realignment plan of Wisconsin's football conferences courtesy of the WIAA and WFCA took effect. Hillsboro left to join the Ridge & Valley Conference for football and was replaced by Luther, longtime members of the Coulee Conference members of the Southwest Wisconsin Activities League for the 2019 football season. This alignment remained in place through the 2022-2023 competition cycle. In 2024, Luther rejoined the
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as football member after a six-year absence. They were replaced by Hillsboro and
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of the Ridge & Valley League, with Hillsboro making their return to the Scenic Bluffs after four seasons in the Ridge & Valley. For the 2026-2027 realignment cycle, Ithaca will be entering into a cooperative agreement with Weston to take effect after their arrangement with Wonewoc-Center ends after the 2025 season.


List of conference members


Current members


Current football-only members


Future football-only members


Former football-only members


Membership timeline


Full members

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1979 till:2030 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:14 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:m bar:1 color:tan1 from:1979 till:2030 text:Bangor (1979-present) bar:2 color:tan1 from:1979 till:2030 text:Brookwood (1979-present) bar:3 color:tan1 from:1979 till:2030 text:Cashton (1979-present) bar:4 color:tan1 from:1979 till:2030 text:Hillsboro (1979-present) bar:5 color:tan1 from:1979 till:2030 text:Necedah (1979-present) bar:6 color:tan1 from:1979 till:2030 text:New Lisbon (1979-present) bar:7 color:tan1 from:1979 till:2030 text:Royall (1979-present) bar:8 color:tan1 from:1979 till:2030 text:Wonewoc-Center (1979-present) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1979


Football members

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1979 till:2030 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:120 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:m bar:1 color:lavender from:1979 till:2030 text:Bangor (1979-present) bar:2 color:lavender from:1979 till:1980 text:Brookwood (1979) bar:2 color:lavender from:2001 till:2030 text:(2001-present) bar:3 color:lavender from:1979 till:2030 text:Cashton (1979-present) bar:4 color:lavender from:1979 till:2020 text:Hillsboro (1979-2019) bar:4 color:lavender from:2024 till:2030 text:(2024-present) bar:5 color:lavender from:1979 till:2018 text:Necedah (1979-2017) bar:5 color:lavender from:2019 till:2030 text:(2019-present) bar:6 color:lavender from:1979 till:2030 text:New Lisbon (1979-present) bar:7 color:lavender from:1979 till:2030 text:Royall (1979-present) bar:8 color:lavender from:1979 till:2016 text:Wonewoc-Center (1979-2015) bar:9 color:lavender from:1982 till:2001 text:De Soto (1982-2000) bar:10 color:lavender from:2020 till:2024 text:Luther (2020-2023) bar:11 color:lavender from:2024 till:2026 text:Ithaca (2024-2025) bar:12 color:lavender from:2026 till:2030 text:Ithaca/Weston (2026-future) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1979


Membership map


List of state champions


Fall sports


Winter sports


Spring sports


List of conference champions


Boys Basketball


Girls Basketball


Football


References


External links


Scenic Bluffs Conference (official site)
{{Wisconsin high school athletic conferences Wisconsin high school sports conferences Sports organizations established in 1979 1979 establishments in Wisconsin