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The Trailways Conference is a high school athletic conference in Wisconsin. Formed in 2001, its membership consists of smaller public and private high schools in east central and south central Wisconsin. All member schools belong to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
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The Trailways Conference was formed in 2001 with most of the members coming from two recently disbanded conferences for small schools in south central Wisconsin: the Dual County Conference (Cambria-Friesland, Fall River, Green Lake, Montello, Pardeeville, Princeton, Randolph, Rio) and the Eastern Suburban Conference (Deerfield, Dodgeland, Hustisford, Johnson Creek and Williams Bay). Two private schools who had recently joined the WIAA as part of the WIAA/WISAA merger (Abundant Life Christian in Madison and Valley Christian in Oshkosh) rounded out the initial membership roster of the Trailways Conference.[1] The fifteen schools were initially subdivided into North and South Divisions:
Central Wisconsin Christian joined the conference after leaving the East Central Flyway Conference in 2004, and two years later the Trailways Conference took three more former East Central Flyway schools into the fold: Lourdes Academy, Markesan and Oakfield. All three schools joined the North Division with Pardeeville moving over to the South Division to accommodate the expansion:[2]
This alignment would only last for two years, as the Trailways split into Central, North and South Divisions in 2008:[3]
In 2012, Green Lake and Princeton High Schools entered into a cooperative agreement for their schools' athletics, and the newly created program remained in the North Division.[4] That same year, Horicon[5] and Madison Country Day School[6] in Waunakee joined the Trailways, and Rio moved to the North Division to keep membership at six schools. The Trailways Conference was realigned to a two-division format in 2013:
In 2014, Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam joined the Trailways South Division,[7] and St. Ambrose Academy in Madison joined with Abundant Life Christian School for most sponsored sports (they would move to their own stand-alone programs in 2023).[8] The North/South divisional alignment would last for two more years before the Trailways realigned to three divisions in 2016:
This alignment would only last a single season, as Palmyra-Eagle and Parkview joined the Trailways as all-sport members in 2017 after leaving the Rock Valley Conference,[9] bringing conference membership to the current twenty-four schools and the current East/South/West divisional alignment.
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North Division South Division Central Division East Division West Division
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Trailways Conference
Location of Trailways Conference full members:
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Abundant Life Christian2
Cambria-Friesland3
Central Wisconsin Christian4
Deerfield5
Dodgeland6
Fall River7
Green Lake8
Horicon9
Hustisford10
Johnson Creek11
Lourdes Academy12
Madison Country Day13
Markesan14
Montello15
Oakfield16
Palmyra-Eagle17
Pardeeville18
Parkview19
Princeton20
Randolph21
Rio22
St. Ambrose Academy23
Valley Christian24
Wayland Academy25
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