The Southeastern Badger Conference is a former high school

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. Founded in 1963 and dissolved in 1970, its membership was located in southeastern Wisconsin and most schools belonged to the

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History

The Southeastern Badger Conference was formed in 1963 in the aftermath of a split between conference members that created two new conferences from the former

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, Norris Foundation,

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joined with Northwestern Military & Naval Academy and Wisconsin School for the Deaf to form the Indian Trails Conference, and the remaining four schools ( Salem Central, St. Mary's in Burlington, Union Grove and

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) formed the Southeastern Badger Conference after unsuccessfully trying to join the

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. Membership increased to six in 1965 when

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(formerly of the

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) and the newly opened

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joined the conference. Two schools left the Southeastern Badger Conference in 1969: Arrowhead joined the

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and Salem Central joined the Southern Lakes Conference four years after their previous attempt was unsuccessful. The four remaining schools competed for one more season before disbanding in 1970. Union Grove and Waterford finally were able to join the Southern Lakes after two failed attempts, Kettle Moraine joined Arrowhead in the Scenic Moraine Conference and St. Mary's competed for one season as an independent before joining the Midwest Prep Conference in 1971.

Conference membership history

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1963 till:1970 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:13 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:m bar:1 color:tan1 from:1963 till:1969 text:Salem Central (1963-1969) bar:2 color:tan1 from:1963 till:1970 text:St. Mary's (1963-1970) bar:3 color:tan1 from:1963 till:1970 text:Union Grove (1963-1970) bar:4 color:tan1 from:1963 till:1970 text:Waterford (1963-1970) bar:5 color:tan1 from:1965 till:1969 text:Arrowhead (1965-1969) bar:6 color:tan1 from:1965 till:1970 text:Kettle Moraine (1965-1970) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:2 start:1963

List of conference champions

Boys Basketball

Football

References

{{Wisconsin high school athletic conferences Wisconsin high school sports conferences Sports organizations established in 1963 1963 establishments in Wisconsin 1970 disestablishments in Wisconsin