Northeast Eight Conference

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Northeast Eight Conference
Founded1989
As Northeast Hoosier Conference
2014
As Northeast Eight Conference
Ceased2013
(Northeast Hoosier Conference)
No. of teams8; 6 Class 4A, 2 Class 3A
Region7 Counties: Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Wells, and Whitley, Indiana
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An eight-member IHSAA-Sanctioned Athletic Conference within the Northeastern Indiana counties of Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Wells, and Whitley. The conference was started in 1989 as the Northeast Hoosier Conference when six schools from the Northeastern Indiana Athletic Conference (Bellmont, Columbia City, DeKalb, East Noble, Homestead, and New Haven) joined with two schools from the Allen County Athletic Conference (Fort Wayne Carroll and Norwell). When the smaller six schools decided to pull out of the conference in 2015, the conference essentially ceased to exist, forcing the much larger Carroll and Homestead into joining the Summit Athletic Conference. The remaining schools, while settling on the current league name, added Huntington North of the North Central Conference and Leo of the Allen County Athletic Conference, who are more similar in size to the rest of the schools. While the six NEHC schools technically dropped out, they never actually left the league, having succeeded in forcing out the two large Fort Wayne schools, ended up staying in the league. This is not an unheard of tactic, as most notably Ohio's Chagrin Valley Conference pulled virtually the same move around the same time.

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Membership

SchoolLocationMascotColorsEnrollment
24-25
IHSAA Class/Football Class# / CountyYear joinedPrevious conference
Bellmont Decatur Braves   6103A/3A 01
Adams
1989 Northeastern Indiana
Columbia
City
Columbia City Eagles   1,1623A/4A 92
Whitley
1989 Northeastern Indiana
DeKalb Waterloo Barons   1,0443A/4A 17
DeKalb
1989 Northeastern Indiana
East
Noble
Kendallville Knights   9893A/4A 57
Noble
1989 Northeastern Indiana
Huntington
North
Huntington Vikings  1,3824A/4A 35
Huntington
2015 North Central
Leo Leo Lions  9003A/4A 02
Allen
2015 Allen County
New Haven New Haven Bulldogs   1,0683A/4A 02
Allen
1989 Northeastern Indiana
Norwell Ossian Knights   7453A/3A 90
Wells
1989 Allen County

Former members (As Northeast Hoosier Conference)

SchoolLocationMascotColorsEnrollment IHSAA Class# / CountyYear joinedPrevious conferenceYear leftConference joined
Fort Wayne
Carroll
Fort Wayne Chargers  2,472AAAA 02
Allen
1989 Allen County 2015 Summit
Fort Wayne
Homestead
Fort Wayne Spartans   2,502AAAA 02
Allen
1989 Northeastern Indiana 2015 Summit

State championships

Bellmont (8)

Columbia City (1)

1979 Football

DeKalb (3)

East Noble (1)

Leo (6)

Carroll (2)

Homestead (10)

Huntington North (2)

New Haven (0)

Norwell (4)

Notable athletes

Resources