Missota Conference
Encyclopedia
The Missota Conference is an athletic conference
for high schools in the greater Twin Cities
area in Minnesota
. There are currently 8 member schools.
The conference has had several teams come and go over the years. In the mid-1970s, team members were Burnsville, Rosemount, Lakeville, Prior Lake, Northfield, Farmington and Simley. Burnsville left in 1977 and was replaced by Apple Valley, which split off from Rosemount. New Prague joined in 1979, making it an eight-team conference.
By the mid-1980s, Apple Valley and Rosemount had grown quite a bit bigger than the other schools. Farmington, the smallest team, left the league and Red Wing joined. Since conference by-laws didn't allow schools to kick out a member, the Missota Conference members voted to disband (approximate date 1987). Six of the schools immediately formed a new conference and named it the Missota, without Apple Valley and Rosemount.
Holy Angels and Benilde St. Margaret's joined in the late 1980s to give the conference eight teams again. Shakopee, Chaska and Hutchinson joined in 1990, about the same time that Simley left the league, making it a 10-team conference. Lakeville left in 1993 and Chaska in 1994. Benilde left the league and Farmington rejoined the Missota in the 1997. Richfield joined the league in 1999, but left two years later.
Farmington re-joined the conference for the 1997-98 school year; it had been a member until it joined the Tri-Metro Conference in the mid-1980s.
On January 28, 2009, Hutchinson was accepted into the Wright County Conference, beginning with the fall of 2010.
On July 15, 2009, Chaska and Chanhassen were admitted to the Missota Conference beginning with the fall of 2010, making it a nine-team conference. Chanhassen High School is a new school in the East Carver County (Chaska) school district that is scheduled to open in the fall of 2009.
In August 2009, Prior Lake will be forming the South Suburban Conference
with many other Lake Conference teams for the 2010-2011 academic year
Athletic conference
An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams, playing competitively against each other at the professional, collegiate, or high school level. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller and smaller divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels...
for high schools in the greater Twin Cities
Twin cities
Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres which are founded in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time...
area in Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. There are currently 8 member schools.
The conference has had several teams come and go over the years. In the mid-1970s, team members were Burnsville, Rosemount, Lakeville, Prior Lake, Northfield, Farmington and Simley. Burnsville left in 1977 and was replaced by Apple Valley, which split off from Rosemount. New Prague joined in 1979, making it an eight-team conference.
By the mid-1980s, Apple Valley and Rosemount had grown quite a bit bigger than the other schools. Farmington, the smallest team, left the league and Red Wing joined. Since conference by-laws didn't allow schools to kick out a member, the Missota Conference members voted to disband (approximate date 1987). Six of the schools immediately formed a new conference and named it the Missota, without Apple Valley and Rosemount.
Holy Angels and Benilde St. Margaret's joined in the late 1980s to give the conference eight teams again. Shakopee, Chaska and Hutchinson joined in 1990, about the same time that Simley left the league, making it a 10-team conference. Lakeville left in 1993 and Chaska in 1994. Benilde left the league and Farmington rejoined the Missota in the 1997. Richfield joined the league in 1999, but left two years later.
Farmington re-joined the conference for the 1997-98 school year; it had been a member until it joined the Tri-Metro Conference in the mid-1980s.
On January 28, 2009, Hutchinson was accepted into the Wright County Conference, beginning with the fall of 2010.
On July 15, 2009, Chaska and Chanhassen were admitted to the Missota Conference beginning with the fall of 2010, making it a nine-team conference. Chanhassen High School is a new school in the East Carver County (Chaska) school district that is scheduled to open in the fall of 2009.
In August 2009, Prior Lake will be forming the South Suburban Conference
South Suburban Conference (Minnesota)
The South Suburban Conference is a Minnesota State High School League conference in Minnesota that began on July 1 , 2010. The conference officially started on July 1, 2010....
with many other Lake Conference teams for the 2010-2011 academic year
Member schools
- Academy of Holy AngelsAcademy of Holy AngelsThe Academy of Holy Angels is a Catholic, coeducational high school located in Richfield, Minnesota. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Holy Angels educates more than 820 students each year in grades nine through twelve from around the Twin Cities...
(Richfield, MinnesotaRichfield, MinnesotaAs of the census of 2000, there were 34,439 people, 15,073 households, and 8,727 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,993.9 people per square mile . There were 15,357 housing units at an average density of 2,226.9 per square mile...
) - Chanhassen High SchoolChanhassen High SchoolChanhassen High School is a public high school located in Chanhassen, Minnesota, a southwestern suburb of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. CNS is a 9th-12th grade school...
- Chaska High School
- Farmington High School
- New Prague High SchoolNew Prague High SchoolNew Prague High School is a public secondary school in New Prague, Minnesota.The school boasts a ninety-eight percent or better graduation rate on average, and ninety percent of graduates attend a post-secondary institution. -History:...
- Northfield High School
- Red Wing High SchoolRed Wing High SchoolRed Wing High School is a comprehensive, liberal arts, public high school located in the beautiful Mississippi River Valley, fifty miles southeast of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area...
- Shakopee High School