The Whitewater Valley Conference was an
IHSAA-sanctioned conference based in
Fayette,
Franklin
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,
Union, and later
Henry
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and
Wayne counties in East Central Indiana. The conference was founded in 1940 as a merger of the
Franklin County Conference and
Union County Conference, though because two of the FCC schools were not able to play a full conference schedule in the 1940-41 school year, two
Fayette County Conference schools were added. The conference's last season was in 1967-68,
as the consolidation wave of the 1950s and 1960s would leave the conference with three schools and no suitable replacements in the area, as Lewisville and Straughn became part of Tri in 1968. College Corner, whose location on the border of Indiana and Ohio allowed them to play in both the WVC and the
Preble County League in Ohio, would continue to play in the PCL until joining with Short in Liberty to form
Union County High School in 1974. Whitewater Township would merge into Brookville that same year. Laurel struggled on as an independent for two decades, as they were too far from the two conferences in the general region that featured schools of a similar size and sports offering, the
Mid-Hoosier and
Ohio River Valley
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conferences. The school eventually consolidated with Brookville to form
Franklin County High School in 1989.
Membership
# Alquina and Harrisburg played concurrently in the WVC and FCC 1940-58.
# Brookville and Springfield Township played concurrently in the WVC and FCC 1940-41.
# College Corner played in both the WVC and Ohio's
Preble County League throughout the WVC's existence. When the WVC folded, they remained in the PCL until consolidating into Union County in 1974.
# Liberty played concurrently in the WVC and the
ECC from 1947 to 1962.
Membership timeline
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bar:1 color:red from:1940 till:1966 text: Alquina (1940-66)
bar:2 color:red from:1940 till:1947 text: Brookville (1940-47)
bar:3 color:red from:1940 till:1961 text: Brownsville (1940-61)
bar:4 color:red from:1940 till:1968 text: College Corner (1940-68)
bar:5 color:red from:1940 till:1958 text:Harrisburg
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(1940-58)
bar:6 color:red from:1940 till:1961 text: Kitchel (1940-61)
bar:7 color:red from:1940 till:1962 text:Liberty
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(1940-62)
bar:8 color:red from:1940 till:1965 text: Springfield Township (1940-61)
bar:9 color:red from:1941 till:1968 text:Laurel
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(1941-68)
bar:10 color:red from:1941 till:1968 text: Whitewater Township (1941-68)
bar:11 color:red from:1958 till:1966 text: Fayette Central (1958-66)
bar:12 color:red from:1962 till:1965 text: Milton (1962-65)
bar:13 color:red from:1964 shift:(-85,-3) till:1967 text: Webster-Williamsburg (1964-67)
bar:14 color:red from:1964 shift:(-85,-3) till:1967 text: Whitewater-Fountain City (1964-67)
bar:15 color:red from:1966 shift:(-70,-3) till:1968 text: Straughn (1966-68)
bar:16 color:red from:1967 shift:(-70,-3) till:1968 text: Lewisville (1967-68)
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References
{{Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA)
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