Hoosier Legends Conference

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Hoosier Legends Conference
Founded2025
First season2026–2027
No. of teams8
RegionIHSAA
Locations
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The Hoosier Legends Conference (HLC) is a planned, eight-member IHSAA-sanctioned conference to begin competition in the fall of 2025. The conference comprises suburban and rural schools from Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan, and Shelby counties.

Contents

The Hoosier Legends Conference was formed by Tri-West after conference realignment with in the Sagamore Conference shifted to the Lafayette Metro Area with bigger schools joining the conference. Similar reasons to the previous members of the Sagamore Conference had for leaving, Tri-West left the conference due to competitive balance and enrollment shifts within the conference.

On August 14, 2024, the Hoosier Legends Conference was announced as Tri-West welcomed Beech Grove, Indian Creek, Monrovia, Speedway, and Triton Central. [1] On October 17, 2024, Shelbyville announced their intention of joining the Hoosier Legends Conference, [2] followed by Greenwood on October 22. [3] All schools will officially join at the beginning of the 2025-26 academic year due to the IHSAA 2-year grace period rule for the protection of the conferences the schools are leaving.

Membership

Charter Members

Beech Grove, Indian Creek, Monrovia, Speedway Triton Central and Tri-West will begin conference play in the fall of 2025. Greenwood and Shelbyville will begin play in the 2026–2027 academic year.

SchoolLocationMascotColorsEnrollmentIHSAA Class

Football Class

CountyYear

Joined

Previous

Conference

Beech Grove Beech Grove Hornets    8923A / 4A 49
Marion
2025 Indiana Crossroads
Greenwood Greenwood Woodmen  1,2113A 41
Johnson
2026 Mid-State
Indian Creek Trafalgar Braves   5913A 41
Johnson
2025 Western Indiana
Monrovia Monrovia Bulldogs  5032A 55
Morgan
2025 Indiana Crossroads
Shelbyville Shelbyville Golden Bears   1,0933A / 4A 73
Shelby
2026 Hoosier Heritage
Speedway Speedway Sparkplugs  5713A 49
Marion
2025 Indiana Crossroads
Tri-West Lizton Bruins  6253A 32
Hendricks
2025 Sagamore
Triton Central Fairland Tigers  4682A 73
Shelby
2025 Indiana Crossroads

References

  1. "Hoosier Legends Conference: Embrace Exciting New Era". Indiana Preps Sports Network. INPreps. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
  2. Neddenriep, Kyle. "Shelbyville will leave Hoosier Heritage Conference for Hoosier Legends Conference". The Indianapolis Star. IndyStar. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
  3. O'Leary, Ryan (23 October 2024). "Greenwood finalizes 2026 jump from Mid-State to Hoosier Legends Conference". Daily Journal. Daily Journal. Retrieved 28 October 2024.