The Wisconsin Flyway Conference is a

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with its membership concentrated in east central

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History

The Wisconsin Flyway Conference was formed in 2006, the result of a split of six schools from the East Central Flyway Conference ( Horicon,

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, Mayville, North Fond du Lac and St. Mary's Springs). These schools were previously in the conference's Rivers Division and were members of the original Flyway Conference before its merger with the

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. Kettle Moraine Lutheran in

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was the seventh original member of the Wisconsin Flyway Conference, having been displaced by the closing of the

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the year prior.

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in Fond du Lac joined as the conference's eighth member after the East Central Flyway was closed in 2007. Omro's entry into the Wisconsin Flyway Conference from the Eastern Valley Conference in 2010 brought membership to its high of nine schools. This mark was to be short-lived, as Horicon left to join the Trailways Conference in 2012. The membership roster was further decreased to seven schools in 2015 when Kettle Moraine Lutheran became members of the reconstituted

. In 2021, Campbellsport exited the East Central Conference to become the Wisconsin Flyway Conference's eighth member. This figure will increase back to nine in 2025, as St. Lawrence Seminary will be joining as a full member after having previously been an associate member in multiple sports.

Football-only alignment

In February 2019, in conjunction with the

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, the WIAA released a sweeping football-only realignment for Wisconsin to commence with the 2020 football season and run on a two-year cycle. The Wisconsin Flyway Conference was set to keep its seven-member all-sport lineup intact for football, with the early addition of Campbellsport as a football-only member for 2020 before attaining full membership in 2021. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wisconsin Flyway Conference postponed their football season until the alternate season in spring 2021. Ripon and Waupun joined as temporary members for the season, as they were the only schools in the East Central Conference that did not field football teams for the fall 2020 season. The Wisconsin Flyway Conference has maintained its eight-member roster for football through the 2026-2027 realignment cycle.

List of member schools

Current members

Associate members

Future members

Former full members

Former football-only members

Membership timeline

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Membership map

List of state champions

Winter sports

Spring sports

List of conference champions

Boys Basketball

Girls Basketball

Football

References

External links

Wisconsin Flyway Conference (official website)
{{Wisconsin high school athletic conferences Sports organizations established in 2006 Wisconsin high school sports conferences 2006 establishments in Wisconsin