Hawkeye 10 Conference
The Hawkeye 10 Conference is a high school athletic conference in Iowa made up of larger-mid-size schools in Southwest Iowa. Most members participate at the 3A level in all sports, which is the second highest level of competition in Iowa.
List of member schools
- Heartland Christian School, located in Council Bluffs, co-ops with St. Albert Catholic for baseball, football, cheer, and softball. Heartland Christian competes in other sports in the Frontier Conference of Nebraska.
Former member schools
Conference History
In 1930, Creston approached Little Ten Conference members Atlantic, Clarinda, Red Oak, Shenandoah, and Villisca about breaking away from the conference to create their own league. The conference at the time consisted of those schools plus Bedford, Corning, Glenwood, and Sidney. During a meeting in Villisca on February 15, 1930, the schools decided to make it official. Soon after, The Little Six named was changed to the Hawkeye Six.The 1930 track meet at Red Oak was the first official event, with Shenandoah claiming the first title in league history. Creston and Red Oak would tie for the football conference championship in the fall of '30.
In 1946 the conference went through their first phase of expansion when Corning was admitted, making the conference the Hawkeye Seven. Glenwood would follow in 1951, making it the Hawkeye Eight.
In 1962, Villisca withdrew from the conference to found the Tall Corn Conference, and Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln applied for membership, but was denied. Harlan would be invited at this time, but turned down an invitation to stay in the Midwest Conference.
In the fall of 1963, Lewis Central applied for membership, but was denied. The same happened in 1966 when St. Albert's Catholic and Maryville, Missouri both applied for membership and were denied.
Moving forward to 1968, Corning announced they would be leaving the conference in 1970 for the Tall Corn Conference as well. Lewis Central was soon admitted in 1970, and Harlan the following year.
The conference was known as the Hawkeye Eight until 1993 when Kuemper Catholic and Denison, recently partnered with Schelswig, joined. Beginning in the fall of 2013, St. Albert's Catholic finally became a member school as well, giving the conference 11 schools.
In 2017, the Missouri River Conference sent letters inviting both Lewis Central and Glenwood to join. Both schools declined.
2025 realignment
After St. Albert joined, Hawkeye 10 membership remained stable until 2025, when – as part of a wave of conference realignments across Iowa – multiple announcements were made for current members departing to join other leagues, primarily for competitive reasons. This process started in June, when Lewis Central accepted an invitation to join the Missouri River Activities Conference, or MRAC. In August, Shenandoah and Red Oak each announced they had accepted invitations to join the Western Iowa Conference. The new conference affiliations for each of the schools were to become effective for the 2026-2027 school year.The announced departures of Lewis Central, Red Oak and Shenandoah temporarily left the Hawkeye 10 with eight schools, and membership was on course to stay that way when longtime Western Iowa Conference member Treynor, which had been offered an invitation to join the Hawkeye 10, decided to remain in their current conference. Then in September, the Carroll Community School Board unanimously voted to accept an invitation for Carroll, a member of the Raccoon River Conference, to join the Hawkeye 10 conference effective the 2026-2027 school year. Upon Carroll joining, the Hawkeye 10's new membership will become nine schools.