South Iowa Cedar League

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South Iowa Cedar League
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Conference IHSAA / IGHSAU
Founded1936
Sports fielded
  • 13
    • men's: 6
    • women's: 7
No. of teams12
RegionEastern Iowa
Official website www.southiowacedarleague.org

The South Iowa Cedar League is a high school athletic conference in south central and southeastern Iowa. The conference is made up of mostly 1A schools, as well as a few 2A schools (the two smallest classes in the state).

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A 9-team league from the 1960s, the conference expanded to 12 teams in 1996, then dropped to 11 members when Williamsburg joined the Eastern Iowa Hawkeye Conference in 2000. In the fall of 2014, the schools of the SICL voted to allow Colfax–Mingo to join the SICL, making it a 12-team league again.

Members

East Division

InstitutionLocationMascotColorsAffiliation2024-2025 BEDS [1]
Belle Plaine Belle Plaine Plainsman  Public94
English Valleys North English Bears  Public94
Iowa Valley Marengo Tigers  Public110
Keota Keota Eagles  Public66
Sigourney Sigourney Savages  Public139
Tri-County Thornburg Trojans  Public44

West Division

InstitutionLocationMascotColorsAffiliation2024-2025 BEDS [2]
B-G-M Brooklyn Bears  Public142
Colfax–Mingo Colfax Tigerhawks  Public157
H-L-V Victor Warriors  Public63
Lynnville–Sully Sully Hawks  Public117
Montezuma Montezuma Braves  Public102
North Mahaska New Sharon Warhawks  Public159

Sports

Boys' sports are administered through the Iowa High School Athletic Association, and girls' sports are administered through the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. Sports classes for each are based on enrollment.

Football is played by districts based on their enrollment classification and geography, instead of by conference. Most SICL schools are in Class A, the smallest of five classifications for the 11-man football game, although Sigourney-Keota -- which has had a cooperative agreement since 1987 -- is Class 1A. As of 2019, four SICL schools -- Iowa Valley, English Valleys, HLV and Tri-County -- play eight-man football.

The conference offers the following sports:

Although the member schools field junior varsity teams (for freshman and sophomore athletes) in many of the above-mentioned sports, conference championships are determined at varsity level only. Also, not all schools field teams in every sport, while others are part of cooperative sharing agreements with schools within and outside the SICL.

State championships

YearSportClassSchool
1964Girls' track and field-Belle Plaine
1965Girls' track and field-Belle Plaine
1966Girls' track and field-Belle Plaine
1969Girls' basketball-Montezuma
1969Boys' track and fieldBBelle Plaine
1970Girls' basketball-Montezuma
1971Boys' basketball1AMontezuma
1971Boys' track and fieldBBelle Plaine
1976Wrestling1ABelle Plaine
1979Football2ASigourney
1984Girls' track and field1ABelle Plaine
1985Boys' track and field2AIowa Valley
1989Boys' basketballAKeota
1990Boys' basketball1AMontezuma
1990Girls' track and field1ASigourney
1991Boys' cross country1AWilliamsburg
1991Girls' track and field1ASigourney
1992Girls' track and field1ASigourney
1994Girls' golf1AWilliamsburg
1995Football2ASigourney-Keota
1996Girls' cross country1ALynnville–Sully
1997Girls' basketball1ALynnville–Sully
1998Girls' basketball1ALynnville–Sully
1998Girls' track and field1ABelle Plaine
1999Girls' basketball1ALynnville–Sully
2001Wrestling1ABelle Plaine
2001Football2ASigourney-Keota
2001Wrestling Duals1ABelle Plaine
2002Boys' golf2ABelle Plaine
2005FootballANorth Mahaska
2005Football2ASigourney-Keota
2005Boys' basketball1ANorth Mahaska
2012Girls' basketball1ANorth Mahaska
2018Girls golf1AIowa Valley
2021Boys' basketball1AMontezuma

Membership timeline

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Colfax–Mingo Community School DistrictNorth Mahaska Community School DistrictLynnville–Sully Community School DistrictTri-County Community School DistrictKeota Community School DistrictH-L-V Community School DistrictEnglish Valleys Community School DistrictWilliamsburg Community School District (Iowa)Sigourney Community School DistrictMontezuma Community School DistrictIowa Valley Community School DistrictB-G-M Community School DistrictBelle Plaine Community School DistrictSouth Iowa Cedar League

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References

  1. "IHSAA: Classifications".
  2. "IHSAA: Classifications".
  3. "South Iowa Cedar League" . Retrieved 2020-07-17.