Grand River Conference

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Grand River Conference
Conference MSHSAA
Founded1929
No. of teams18
RegionNorthwest Missouri

The Grand River Conference, is a high school athletic conference comprising small-size high schools located in northwest and north central Missouri. The conference members are located in Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan, and Worth counties.

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History

Founded in December 1929, the conference was formed with six schools: King City, Stanberry, Maysville, Bethany, Albany and Grant City as the Grand River Six. By 1936, the conference had grown to eight teams. Various schools joined and dropped over the years, with several schools switching to 8-player football a contributing factor. By 2011, the conference had ten members, and by 2016, the conference was at 16 teams. [1] [2] On March 3, 2023, the superintendents of the conference voted to split into 2 separate conferences, Grand River Conference (GRC) and Grand River Conference West (GRC West), based on the previous divisional lines with Princeton joining the GRC West and giving the GRC the Brookfield Bulldogs (formerly of the Clarence Cannon Conference) and the Marceline Tigers (formerly of the Lewis & Clark Conference), who began GRC play in the 2024-2025 school year.

Members

As of 2024, the Grand River Conference consists of eighteen high schools split into two separate conferences. [3] [4] [5]

Grand River Conference

School NameMascotColorsCityCountySchool Type
BrookfieldBulldogs   Brookfield Linn Public
GallatinBulldogs   Gallatin Daviess Public
MarcelineTigers   Marceline Linn Public
MaysvilleWolverines   Maysville DeKalb Public
MilanWildcats   Milan Sullivan Public
PoloPanthers   Polo Caldwell Public
Putnam CountyMidgets   Unionville Putnam Public
South HarrisonBulldogs   Bethany Harrison Public
TrentonBulldogs   Trenton Grundy Public

Grand River Conference West

School NameMascotColorsCityCountySchool Type
AlbanyWarriors   Albany Gentry Public
King CityWildkats   King City Gentry Public
North Andrew Cardinals   Rosendale Andrew Public
North HarrisonShamrocks   Eagleville Harrison Public
PattonsburgPanthers   Pattonsburg Daviess Public
PrincetonTigers   Princeton Mercer Public
St. Joseph Christian Lions   St. Joseph Buchanan Private
StanberryBulldogs   Stanberry Gentry Public
Worth CountyTigers   Grant City Worth Public

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