Bay-Lakes Conference

The Bay-Lakes Conference is a former high school athletic conference in northeast Wisconsin, operating from 1970 to 1979. Its public school members belonged to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association and its private school members were part of the Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association.

History

The Bay-Lakes Conference, named so for its proximity to Green Bay and the many lakes in northeastern Wisconsin, was formed in 1970 by a mix of seven small public and private schools in the region. Six of the seven schools were members of conferences that had disbanded prior to the 1970-71 school year: three from the Peninsula Conference, two from the Fox Valley Tri-County League and one from the Wisconsin Seminary League. Stockbridge, the seventh member, was an independent prior to joining the conference, as they had competed without affiliation since the demise of the Kettle Moraine Conference in 1969. The conference kept the same membership over the course of its nine-year history with the exception of Sacred Heart Seminary's exit in 1976 due to its closing. The Bay-Lakes Conference split up in 1979 with two public high schools moving to the Packerland Conference, two private schools joining the Classic Conference, Stockbridge joined the Central Lakeshore Conference and Manitowoc Lutheran became an independent.

Conference membership history

Final members

Previous members

Membership timeline

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List of state champions

Fall sports

Winter sports

None

Spring sports

School	Year	Division
Winnebago Lutheran	1978	WISAA Class B
Winnebago Lutheran	1979	WISAA Class B