The Lakeshore Conference is a former high school athletic conference with membership concentrated in southeastern Wisconsin. It was operational from 1997 to 2008, and all members belonged to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association at the time of the conference's dissolution.
History
The Lakeshore Conference was formed in 1997 during a period of realignment among high school athletic conferences in Wisconsin. The five public high schools (Badger, Union Grove, Waterford, Westosha Central and Wilmot Union) were all former members of the Eastern Division of the Southern Lakes Conference, which was dissolved that year. The sixth member of the Eastern Division, Burlington, would go on to join the Southeast Conference. The two private high schools (St. Catherine's in Racine and St. Joseph in Kenosha) were former members of the Metro Conference, which had been affiliated with the Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association. In 1997, WISAA began a merger process with the WIAA that would be finished for the 2000-01 school year, which was the main catalyst for the Metro Conference's ending. The Lakeshore Conference maintained the same seven-member roster during the entirety of its eleven-year existence. In 2008, the five public high schools returned to the Southern Lakes Conference in a reversal of the realignment that had occurred eleven years earlier. That same year, St. Catherine's and St. Joseph both joined the Midwest Classic Conference, and both were part of a group of eight schools that split off from the conference to create the Metro Classic Conference in 2012.
Conference membership history SchoolLocationAffiliationMascotColorsJoinedLeftConference JoinedCurrent ConferenceBadgerLake Geneva, WIPublicBadgers 19972008Southern LakesSt. Catherine'sRacine, WIPrivate (Catholic, Racine Dominicans)Angels 19972008Midwest ClassicMetro ClassicSt. JosephKenosha, WIPrivate (Catholic)Lancers 19972008Midwest ClassicMetro ClassicUnion GroveUnion Grove, WIPublicBroncos 19972008Southern LakesWaterfordWaterford, WIPublicWolverines 19972008Southern LakesWestosha CentralPaddock Lake, WIPublicFalcons 19972008Southern LakesWilmot UnionWilmot, WIPublicPanthers 19972008Southern Lakes
Membership timeline
List of state champions Fall sports +Girls VolleyballSchoolYearDivisionWestosha Central2003Division 1Westosha Central2004Division 1Westosha Central2006Division 1
Winter sports +Boys BasketballSchoolYearDivisionSt. Catherine's2005Division 2St. Catherine's2006Division 2St. Catherine's2007Division 2
Spring sports +BaseballSchoolYearDivisionWestosha Central2002Division 1St. Joseph2005Division 2St. Joseph2006Division 3 +SoftballSchoolYearDivisionUnion Grove2007Division 2
List of conference champions Boys Basketball SchoolQuantityYearsSt. Catherine's61998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006St. Joseph41999, 2001, 2003, 2004Badger12008Union Grove12007Westosha Central11998Waterford0Wilmot Union0
Girls Basketball SchoolQuantityYearsSt. Catherine's61999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005Waterford22005, 2006Badger11998St. Joseph12001Union Grove12007Westosha Central12008Wilmot Union0
Football SchoolQuantityYearsWilmot Union51998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004St. Joseph41997, 2002, 2003, 2005Union Grove22005, 2006Waterford22004, 2007Badger12007St. Catherine's12007Westosha Central12005
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