Cascade Collegiate Conference

The Cascade Conference (or Cascade Collegiate Conference) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Member schools are located in the Northwestern United States. Its teams compete in NAIA Division II for basketball competition. The conference's ten members compete in 13 sports. The current commissioner of the conference is Robert Cashell.

Member schools

Current members

Affiliate members

Former members

Membership timeline

 Full member (non-football)   Associate member (sport) 

Fielded sports

Fall

Winter

Spring

Cascade Conference (MHSAA)

The Cascade Conference is a Michigan high school athletic conference, in the Jackson County area. It was formed prior to the 1954 school year. The conference includes Class B and C schools from the Jackson County area, as well as schools from the surrounding area.

Member schools

Current members

The following institutions are full members of the Cascade Conference for the 2013/14 academic year:

Former members

The Cascade Conference has five former members.

History

Formation

The Cascade Conference was formed in 1954 with eight schools from the Jackson County Conference. The original members were: Brooklyn, Concord, East Jackson, Grass Lake, Jackson Vandercook Lake, Michigan Center, Napoleon, Parma, and Springport high schools.

Red and Blue

With the growth of suburbs, some Cascade Conference schools grew more rapidly than others. This led to the creation of the Red and Blue divisions. Between 1983 and 1996, four schools were listed as Cascade-Red Members: Jackson Lumen Christi, Jackson Northwest, Parma Jackson County Western and Brooklyn Columbia Central. In 1996, Jackson Northwest and Jackson Lumen Christi left the Cascade Red for the Capital-Circuit Conference. Brooklyn Columbia Central left the Cascade Red after 1995 and competed as an independent for two years, before joining the Lenawee County Conference at the start of the 1997 school year. Parma Jackson County Western left the Cascade Red after the 1995 school year and joined the Twin Valley Conference.