Fox Valley Association


The Fox Valley Association is a high school athletic conference comprising ten high schools located within the Fox Valley region of northeastern Wisconsin. Founded in 1970, the organization and its member schools are affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.

History

The Fox Valley Association was formed in 1970, resulting from a split within the Fox River Valley Conference. Four schools along the western shore of Lake Winnebago joined with three schools formerly of the disbanded Mid-Eastern Conference to form the initial membership roster. Oshkosh North became the eighth member of the conference when it opened its doors in 1972, with the original Oshkosh High School being renamed to Oshkosh West. The FVA briefly grew to nine schools with the addition of Two Rivers in 1977, before they made their exit to join a reconstituted Eastern Wisconsin Conference in 1979. Membership increased back to nine schools in 1989 when Fond du Lac became part of the FVA, joining for most sports that year. Their football program joined the conference for the 1993 season. In 1995, Appleton opened a third high school on the city's north side, and Appleton North became the FVA's tenth member that year. The roster has stayed at ten schools ever since, with the only change since Appleton North's addition was the affiliation swap between Menasha and Bay Conference members Hortonville in 2014. In November 2025, Appleton West filed a formal request with the WIAA to move to the Bay Conference in time for the 2027-28 school year, where it is hoped that they would be more competitive. The move is supported by the remaining FVA schools but is opposed by the nine current Bay Conference members. The process will go through the WIAA Conference Realignment Task Force Committee starting in December 2025 with a resolution to be reached by spring of 2026.

Football

The Fox Valley Conference initially sponsored football from their inaugural season in 1970 to the 2010 season. In 2011, the WIAA merged the FVA with the Wisconsin Valley Conference, who was seeking assistance with scheduling conference games, into the football-only Valley Football Association. This arrangement lasted until the 2020-2021 season, when the WIAA joined forces with the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association to organize a sweeping realignment of Wisconsin high school football. These plans were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, when several conferences in the Fox Valley decided not to play football during the fall season. The 20-team Fox Valley Classic Conference was formed as a football league for the alternate spring 2021 season and included all FVA members, along with schools from the Fox River Classic and Wisconsin Valley Conferences. The 2021 season saw the return of football sponsorship for the FVA, and all conference members participated with the exception of Appleton West and Hortonville, who were moved to the VFA. Hortonville and Oshkosh North swapped affiliations for the 2024-2025 competition cycle, and that alignment will remain in place at least through the 2027 football season.

List of member schools

Current full members

Current associate members

Former members

Membership timeline

Full members


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Football members


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Membership map

Sanctioned sports

List of state champions

Fall sports

SchoolYearDivision
Neenah1981Class A
Neenah1982Class A
Neenah1983Class A
Kaukauna2020Division 1
Neenah2024Division 1

SchoolYear
Neenah1977
Oshkosh West1980
Appleton West1981
Neenah1982
Appleton West1983
Appleton West1984
Appleton East1985

SchoolYearDivision
Neenah1985Single Division
Neenah1986Single Division
Neenah2007Division 1
Appleton North2020-21Alternate Season

SchoolYearDivision
Kaukauna1970Single Division
Appleton East1971Single Division
Kaukauna1972Single Division
Kaukauna1977Single Division
Kaukauna1978Single Division
Kaukauna1980Single Division
Kaukauna1982Single Division
Appleton North2014Single Division
Kaukauna2015Single Division
Kimberly2019Single Division
Kimberly2020-21Alternate Season

Winter sports

SchoolYearDivision
Neenah1978Class A
Kimberly1987Class A
Kimberly1989Class B
Kimberly1996Division 2
Kimberly1998Division 2
Oshkosh West2003Division 1
Oshkosh West2004Division 1
Appleton North2017Division 1
Appleton North2018Division 2
Kimberly2025Division 1

Spring sports

SchoolYearDivision
Appleton North2000Division 1

SchoolYearDivision
Kimberly1980Class A
Kimberly1981Class A
Kimberly1988Class B
Kimberly1989Class B
Neenah1990Division 1
Kimberly1993Division 2
Neenah1995Division 1
Appleton East2000Division 1
Appleton North2005Division 1
Kimberly2007Division 1
Kaukauna2010Division 1
Kimberly2014Division 1
Kaukauna2017Division 1
Oshkosh North2019Division 1
Kaukauna2021Division 1
Kaukauna2022Division 1
Kaukauna2023Division 1

SchoolYearDivision
Neenah1971Class A
Kimberly2014Division 1
Kimberly2017Division 1
Kimberly2018Division 1
Kimberly2019Division 1