Requests and Proposals

Football Conference Alignments

In 2022-23 the Conference Realignment Task Force recommended an 8-player and 11-player football plan to begin this season (2024). The final, WIAA Board of Control approved plans are below.

Modified 11-player Alignment:
Visual (Final revised with Milw. Excellence removed from Capitol Conference on 12-6-2023)


Modified 8-player Alignment:
Visual (Final)
 

Conference Realignment Reference-Status Changes 2026-27
This document contains all program changes (11 to 8-player, 8 to 11-player, new co-ops, new programs) and lists all schools that are applying for conference realignment as of October 1st.  

Lacrosse Conference Alignments
Boys:  2024-25 Visual | 2023-24 Visual
Girls:  2024-25 Visual | 2023-24 Visual

Approved Fast Track Applications 2024-25

Creation of the Bay Valley Lakes Association Conference (Boys' and Girls' Lacrosse) to consist of Appleton, Bay Port, DePere, Kimberly, Neenah, Notre Dame Academy, Oneida, Pulaski, and Wausau.

Approved Plans from the 2023-24 Conference Realignment Cycle

The WIAA Board of Control accepted the following proposals from the Conference Realignment Task Force on March 5, 2024.  All accepted plans will take effect in the fall of 2025.  

Ashland (boys’ hockey to the Middle Border)
          NOTE:  Spooner to Middle Border
Berlin (East Central to South Central)
Central WI Christian (girls’ soccer to Wisconsin Flyway)
DeForest (boys’ volleyball to Big Eight)
Dr. Howard Fuller (Independent to Lake City)
Elk Mound (Dunn-St. Croix to Cloverbelt-West)
Fox Valley Lutheran (North Eastern to Bay)
Merrill (Wisconsin Valley to the Great Northern)
Osseo-Fairchild (Cloverbelt to Dairyland)
Ripon (East Central to South Central)
Waupun (East Central to Capitol North; mandatory crossovers Capitol North and South)
West DePere (Bay to Fox River Classic)
Winneconne (East Central to the Bay)
Badger Conference (lacrosse) to consist of Watertown, DeForest, Oregon co-op, Sauk Prairie co-op, Waunakee, Edgewood co-op, Middleton, Sun Prairie co-op, Verona co-op, and the La Crosse co-op

The following changes to conference alignment were accepted by the WIAA Board of Control via the Fast Track process: