River Valley Conference (Illinois) Explained

River Valley Conference
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Founded:1940
Conference:IHSA
Teams:10
Sports:5
Region:Illinois

The River Valley Conference is a high school sports Conference in northeastern and two high schools in a southern suburbs is "Illinois Lutheran and Beecher High School in Illinois, United States. The conference is part of the Illinois High School Association. The conference started around 1940 as the Kankakee Valley Conference, making up schools from the Kankakee County and Will County area. The conference had split into two divisions (Kan-Will and Will-Ro-Kee) in 1953 to make football scheduling more manageable, but maintained the conference in basketball and other sports.[1] With the Iroquois and Vermilion Valley conferences folding, the KVC took on some of their members, prompting the change to its current name. The biggest shift since then occurred in 2006, as its larger schools left to join schools with similar membership, leaving the RVC as a rural, smaller school conference. In 2020, Grace Christian became a full IHSA member, and joined the RVC. This brought the amount of teams up to 8. Momence and Clifton Central are set to join the RVC in 2021, due to the dissolving of the Sangamon Valley Conference. This will bring the conference up to 10 teams.

Membership

Current

SchoolLocationMascotColorsAreasCountyIHSA EnrollmentClassYear JoinedPrevious Conference
BeecherBeecherBobcatsSouth SuburbsWill3542Apre-1948
Clifton CentralCliftonCometsEast IllinoisIroquois292.52A2021Sangamon Valley
DonovanDonovanWildcatsEast IllinoisIroquois69.51A1989Iroquois
Gardner-South WilmingtonGardnerPanthersNortheast IllinoisGrundy179.51A1989Vermilion Valley
Grace Christian AcademyKankakeeCrusadersEast IllinoisKankakee73.51A2020
Grant ParkGrant ParkDragonsKankakee1391Apre-1948
Illinois LutheranCreteChargersSouth SuburbsWill1041A2006Tollway
MomenceMomenceRedskinsEast IllinoisKankakee3072A2021Sangamon Valley
St. AnneSt. AnneCardinalsEast IllinoisKankakee1751Apre-1948
Tri-PointCullomChargersEast IllinoisLivingston111.51A2011Sangamon Valley

Former

Note: records before 1948-49 are incomplete. Some teams may have played in the conference before the date recorded, other schools may have played in the conference's early years.

SchoolLocationMascotColorsCountyYear JoinedPrevious ConferenceYear LeftConference Joined
BonfieldBonfieldBravesKankakeepre-19401941none (consolidated into Reddick)
Crete-Monee1CreteWarriorsWill1940none (new school)1962Southeast Suburban
R.U.C.E.2ReddickBulldogsKankakee19441956Northeast
Bishop McNamara3KankakeeIrishKankakeepre-19481989Chicago Catholic
Bradley-BourbonnaisBradleyBoilermakersKankakeepre-19481962Southeast Suburban
GilmanGilmanOwlsIroquoispre-19481962Vermilion Valley
MantenoMantenoPanthersKankakeepre-19482006Interstate 8
MomenceMomenceRedskinsKankakeepre-19482006Sangamon Valley
PeotonePeotoneBlue DevilsWillpre-19482006Interstate 8
CentralCliftonCometsIroquois1950none (new school)1980Wauseca
Herscher4HerscherTigersKankakee1950Vermilion Valley2006Interstate 8
  1. Known as Crete until 1948.
  2. Known as Reddick until 1950.
  3. Known as St. Patrick until 1955.
  4. Herscher played concurrently in the KVC and VVC from 1950 to 1954.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Great Conferences . Illinois HS Glory Days . 2005-01-30 . 2014-02-10.

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