Founded | 1970 |
---|---|
No. of teams | 8 |
Region | 3 Counties: Lake, LaPorte, and Porter, Indiana |
Locations | |
The Duneland Athletic Conference (DAC) is a high school athletic conference in Indiana serving eight members of the Indiana High School Athletic Association. Member schools are located in the counties of Lake, LaPorte, and Porter along Indiana's Lake Michigan shore. Each school is classified based on enrollment as 6A or 5A for football and 4A for basketball, the classes for the largest schools in Indiana. The Duneland Conference is also known for its gymnastics programs which have won a combined total of 35 state championship and state runner-up titles.
School | Location | County | Team Name | Colors | Enrollment 24-25 | IHSAA Class | IHSAA Class Football | Year joined | Previous conference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chesterton | Chesterton | 64 Porter | Trojans | 1980 | 4A | 5A | 1970 | Calumet | |
Crown Point | Crown Point | 45 Lake | Bulldogs | 2,978 | 4A | 6A | 1993 | Lake Suburban | |
Lake Central | Saint John | 45 Lake | Indians | 2961 | 4A | 6A | 2003 | Independents | |
LaPorte | LaPorte | 46 LaPorte | Slicers | 1,812 | 4A | 5A | 1976 | Northern Indiana | |
Merillville | Merrillville | 45 Lake | Pirates | 2050 | 4A | 5A | 1975 | Lake Suburban | |
Michigan City | Michigan City | 46 LaPorte | Wolves | 1,520 | 4A | 5A | 1995 | none (new school) | |
Portage | Portage | 64 Porter | Indians | 2170 | 4A | 6A | 1970 | Calumet | |
Valparaiso | Valparaiso | 64 Porter | Vikings | 2140 | 4A | 5A | 1970 | Independents |
School | Location | Mascot | Colors | County | Year joined | Previous conference | Year left | Conference joined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Hobart | Brickies | 45 Lake | 1970 | Independents | 2003 | Lake | |
Michigan City Rogers | Michigan City | Raiders | 46 LaPorte | 1972 | none (new school) | 1995 | none (consolidated into Michigan City) |
Boys | State Titles | Runner-Up | Girls | State Titles | Runner-Up |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baseball | 5 | 1 | Basketball | 2 | 7 |
Basketball | 0 | 3 | Cross Country | 6 | 7 |
Cross Country | 10 | 10 | Golf | 2 | 1 |
Football | 7 | 6 | Gymnastics | 12 | 9 |
Golf | 0 | 0 | Soccer | 0 | 1 |
Soccer | 4 | 3 | Softball | 5 | 2 |
Swimming & Diving | 4 | 0 | Swimming & Diving | 0 | 4 |
Tennis | 1 | 1 | Tennis | 0 | 0 |
Track & Field | 0 | 1 | Track & Field | 0 | 1 |
Wrestling | 1 | 1 | Volleyball | 0 | 0 |
Total | 30 | 26 | Total | 27 | 32 |
Conference Total | 57 | 58 | 115 |
In 2002, five schools - East Chicago Central High School, Elkhart Central High School, Lake Central High School, Mishawaka High School, & Penn High School - submitted proposals to join the DAC when expansion talks began following Hobart's announcement it would leave to join the Lake Athletic Conference. [3] Lake Central, Mishawaka and Penn were invited to join the DAC. [4] Mishawaka, shortly followed by Penn, opted to not join the conference. [5] [6] These two schools cited wanting Elkhart Central and East Chicago Central to have been invited to join as well. [6] This coupled with the extensive travel times to Lake County schools and the time zone difference led to their decision to remain in the Northern Indiana Conference. [6]
Titles | School | Years |
---|---|---|
17 | Hobart | 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986*, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993*, 1996*, 1997 |
15 | Valparaiso | 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1993*, 1995*, 1998*, 2001, 2002, 2008*, 2010, 2015*, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
10 | Merrillville | 1977, 1986*, 1991, 1992, 2004, 2009, 2011*, 2013, 2020, 2021 |
8 | Portage | 1971*, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1996*, 1998*, 1999, 2003* |
5 | Chesterton | 1971*, 2000, 2008*, 2012, 2015* |
5 | Crown Point | 2005, 2006, 2007, 2022, 2023 |
3 | LaPorte | 1986*, 2003*, 2016 |
2 | Lake Central | 2011*, 2014 |
0 | Michigan City | |
0 | Rogers |
Titles | School | Years |
---|---|---|
22 | Valparaiso | 1971, 1975*, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1990*, 1993*, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2005*, 2006*, 2007, 2009, 2010*, 2015, 2017*, 2018*, 2019, 2021 |
20 | Merrillville | 1975*, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983*, 1987*, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999*, 2000, 2001, 2005*, 2006*, 2010*, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018* |
5 | Chesterton | 1983*, 2008, 2020, 2022, 2023 |
5 | LaPorte | 1988*, 1990*, 1991, 1993*, 2003 |
4 | Rogers | 1974, 1979, 1984, 1987* |
2 | Crown Point | 1999*, 2017* |
2 | Lake Central | 2012, 2014 |
2 | Portage | 1973, 1988* |
1 | Hobart | 1972 |
1 | Michigan City | 1998 |
Titles | School | Years |
---|---|---|
6 | Crown Point | 2001, 2003*, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
6 | Lake Central | 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018*, 2023, 2024 |
5 | Merrillville | 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2013 |
4 | Michigan City | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 |
3 | Valparaiso | 2002, 2003*, 2005 |
2 | LaPorte | 2014, 2018* |
0 | Chesterton | |
0 | Hobart | |
0 | Portage | |
0 | Rogers |
Chesterton Trojans (12)
Crown Point Bulldogs (11)
LaPorte Slicers (10)
Lake Central Indians (13)
Merrillville Pirates (7)
Michigan City Wolves (0)
Portage Indians (12)
Valparaiso Vikings (24)
Hobart Brickies (8)
Michigan City Rogers Raiders (1)
The Kansas State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA) is the organization which oversees interscholastic competition in the U.S. state of Kansas at the high-school level. It oversees both athletic and non-athletic competition, and sponsors championships in several sports and activities.
The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League is an interscholastic athletic association in Western Pennsylvania. It is District 7 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.
Westlake High School is a public high school in unincorporated territory of Travis County, Texas, west of and adjacent to Austin. The school is a part of the Eanes Independent School District. Westlake High School is the only high school in the Eanes ISD and serves West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, parts of Southwest Austin, as well as parts of unincorporated Travis County. The school was established in 1969 and opened in 1970.
Lake Central High School (LCHS) is a high school in St. John, Indiana, for students in grades nine through twelve. Its students come from St. John Township which includes the towns of St. John and Dyer, almost the entire town of Schererville, unincorporated areas with Crown Point postal addresses, and the southeastern section of Griffith that is within St. John Township. It is the only high school in the Lake Central School Corporation.
TheMississippi Athletic Conference is a high school athletic conference whose members are located in the Iowa Quad-Cities, plus three other schools in eastern Iowa.
Northside High School is a high school in Warner Robins, Georgia, United States. Located at 926 Green Street on the northern side of Warner Robins, it was built in 1963 and enrolls approximately 1827 students. It is a part of Houston County Schools.
Hoosier Heritage Conference is an athletic and extra/co-curricular activity conference of Indiana high schools. The conference formed in 1993. It is formed of Madison, Hancock, Henry, Shelby, and Delaware Counties.
Conference Indiana (CI) is an athletic conference within the Indiana High School Athletic Association. Conference Indiana was initially formed from the union of surviving members of the Central Suburban Athletic Conference (CSAC) and the South Central Conference (SCC) after the departure of members to the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference (MIC).
The Northern Indiana Conference (NIC) is a high school athletic conference that was founded in 1927 and spanned from as far west as Hammond and Gary to South Bend/Mishawaka and Elkhart to the east and south to Plymouth. Since its start in 1927, a total of 32 separate schools have at one time called the NIC home. From its inception until 1963, the conference had been divided into East and West divisions. The West Division left to form the Northwestern Conference in 1963. With membership dwindling to 7 members by the 1970s, the conference added former members of the Northern Indiana Valley Conference to its ranks. Currently, every former NIVC member is now a part of the NIC except for South Bend Jackson, which closed in 1973, and South Bend LaSalle, which joined the NIC in 1977, but closed in 2001.
The Hoosier Crossroads Conference is a member conference of the Indiana High School Athletic Association. Teams first competed in the conference in the 2000-2001 school year. The HCC contains eight high schools in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Area. There are two schools in Hendricks County, one in Boone County, four in Hamilton County, and one in Marion County.
Prosper High School is a class 6A public high school in Prosper, Texas, United States. It is part of Prosper Independent School District located in western Collin County, with a small portion of the district extending into Denton County. In addition to Prosper, the district serves a portion of McKinney and small parts of Frisco and Celina.
The Northern Lakes Conference of Indiana (NLC) is an IHSAA-sanctioned athletic conference of high schools located within Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph counties in northern Indiana, United States.
The Summit Athletic Conference, or SAC, is a high school athletic conference consisting of ten high schools located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Three of the schools are private; one being a Lutheran academy, and the other two being Catholic preparatories. The rest are public schools, being part of Fort Wayne Community Schools. Two limited members are part of Northwest Allen County Schools and Southwest Allen County Schools.
The Hoosier Hills Conference is a seven-member, IHSAA-sanctioned athletic conference comprising large 4A and 5A (football)-sized schools in Bartholomew, Clark, Floyd, Jackson, Jennings, and Lawrence in South Central and Southeast Indiana. Madison departed the conference in 2021, thereby reducing its size to seven member schools.
The North Central Conference is an IHSAA-sanctioned athletic conference consisting of ten large high schools in Cass, Delaware, Grant, Howard, Madison, Marion, Tippecanoe, and Wayne Counties across Central and North Central Indiana. Most of these schools are in 35,000+ population towns like Anderson, Marion, Kokomo, Lafayette, Muncie, and Richmond. Several of the nation's largest gymnasiums belong to members of this conference.
The Northwest Crossroads Conference is a seven-member IHSAA-sanctioned athletic conference. Six of the seven institutions are in Lake County, while the sixth, Kankakee Valley, is in neighboring Jasper County. This conference was created in 2007, following the disbandment of the Lake Athletic Conference. Griffith left the conference after the 2016–17 school year to join the Greater South Shore Athletic Conference (IHSAA).
Tift County High School is a public high school located in Tifton, Georgia, United States. It serves grades 9-12 in the Tift County School District. The school mascot is the Blue Devil. In 2018, the Tift County School District was ranked the 15th safest in Georgia.
The Missouri River Activities Conference is a high school athletic and activities conference whose members are located in either the Sioux City Metropolitan Area or the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area, both located along the Missouri River on the border of western Iowa, United States.
Portage High School is a public high school in Portage, Indiana that serves grades 9 through 12.
Canyon High School is a public high school located in the city limits of Canyon, Texas, United States and classified as a 4A school from 2018 by the University Interscholastic League (UIL). It is part of the Canyon Independent School District located in north central Randall County. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.