As the world turns...West Central Conference drama continues

It ain't over yet...

All the recent changes to the West Central Conference may have the typical sports fan out there thinking that things may settle down for awhile.

Not a bit.

The Western Guard newspaper (Madison's paper) reported recently that Lac qui Parle Valley is strongly considering fleeing the WCC to join the Camden Conference for most sports and the Little Sioux for football.

LQPV has been a member of the West Central Conference since 1990, when the 4 school districts of Marietta/Nassau, Madison, Appleton and Milan merged. They had a fair amount of success in the 1990s when their enrollment was high and they were one of the larger schools in the league.

Currently they are hovering under 900 students K-12...not good. The economies of their small towns are suffering considerably.

As far as the Camden Conference is concerned...LQPV would by far be the biggest school in that league if that move took place. The Camden currently includes schools such as MACCRAY (K-12 is around 700 students), Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg (K-12 is around 550) and Dawson-Boyd (K-12 is around 650). Other schools in that league include Minneota, Canby, Lincoln HI (Ivanhoe), Russel-Tyler-Ruthton and Tracy-Milroy-Balaton. In football those above-mentioned schools with the exception of K-M-S are all in the Little Sioux Conference; all but Tracy-Milroy-Balaton are in Class 1A. (T-M-B is in Class 2A.)

As we learn more on this over the next few weeks and months we'll keep our public up to date!

~RO