Bay Conference

The Bay Conference, is a high school athletic conference made up of eight teams in northeastern Wisconsin, centering primarily around the Green Bay / Fox Valley Metropolitan Areas. Conference schools are members of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.

Conference history

1970-2007

The Bay Conference was established in 1970 by charter members: Ashwaubenon, Bay Port, Clintonville, De Pere, Marinette, Oconto, Oconto Falls, Pulaski, Seymour, and West De Pere. 1979 brought the addition of former East Central Conference member New London and former Wisconsin Valley Conference member Shawano, In exchange for departing Oconto and Oconto Falls. In 1999, Clintonville left the Bay Conference to join the newly formed Valley 8 Conference. Of the ten original members, only Marinette, Seymour, and West De Pere have remained in the conference since its inception. Marinette will leave the Bay in 2015 and join the Eastern Valley Conference

2007-2015

The 2007 WIAA realignment brought major changes to the Bay Conference. Ashwaubenon, Bay Port, De Pere, and Pulaski transferred to the Fox River Classic Conference, where they joined the larger Green Bay, Manitowoc, and Sheboygan area high schools. Hortonville and Oconto Falls transferred from the now defunct Valley 8 Conference, and Denmark and Luxemburg-Casco trnasferred from the Packerland Conference. Each of these schools had increasing enrollments and had outgrown their previous conferences.