Metro Conference (Wisconsin)


The Metro Conference is a former high school athletic conference in Wisconsin, formed in 1974 and dissolving in 1997. It consisted entirely of private high schools in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, and most were Catholic high schools within the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

History

The Metro Conference was formed in 1974 as the successor to the Milwaukee Catholic Conference and had twelve original members. It was formed in the wake of the successful application by Milwaukee Lutheran High School to join the Milwaukee Catholic Conference in the early 1970s. All of its member schools competed under the banner of the Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association, an organization for private high school athletic programs in the state of Wisconsin.
The conference maintained a very consistent membership roster during its existence, only losing three members: St. John's Cathedral in 1976, Messmer in 1984 and St. Joan Antida in 1989. The Metro Conference was very successful at state-level competitions within WISAA, with its most high-profile successes coming in basketball. During its twenty-three-year history, Metro Conference member schools won twenty boys and eighteen girls WISAA basketball championships.
After the 1994 football season, the Metro Conference lost both St. Catherine's and St. Joseph to the new Wisconsin Independent Football Association, leaving the conference with six football members. The Metro Conference was disbanded in 1997 in anticipation for the coming merger between WISAA and the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, the state's high school athletics organization for public schools. All of its member schools went to established WIAA conferences after the 1996-97 school year.

Membership timeline

Full members


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bar:6 color:tan1 from:1974 till:1997 text:Milwaukee Lutheran
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Football members


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List of state championships

Fall sports

SchoolYearOrganizationDivision
Catholic Memorial1980WISAA
Catholic Memorial1981WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1982WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1983WISAAClass A
Dominican1984WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1985WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1988WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1989WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1991WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1992WISAADivision 1
Catholic Memorial1993WISAADivision 1
Catholic Memorial1994WISAADivision 1
Catholic Memorial1995WISAADivision 1

SchoolYearOrganization
St. Catherine's1974WISAA
Pius XI1976WISAA
Marquette University1982WISAA
Marquette University1983WISAA
Marquette University1992WISAA
Catholic Memorial1993WISAA
Catholic Memorial1994WISAA

SchoolYearOrganization
Dominican1978WISAA
Dominican1979WISAA
DSHA1992WISAA
DSHA1993WISAA
DSHA1994WISAA
DSHA1996WISAA

Winter sports

SchoolYearOrganizationDivision
St. Catherine's1976WISAA
Milwaukee Lutheran1977WISAA
St. Catherine's1979WISAAClass A
Pius XI1980WISAAClass A
Pius XI1982WISAAClass A
Pius XI1983WISAAClass A
Pius XI1984WISAAClass A
Pius XI1985WISAAClass A
Pius XI1986WISAAClass A
Pius XI1987WISAAClass A
Pius XI1988WISAAClass A
Pius XI1989WISAAClass A
Pius XI1990WISAAClass A
Pius XI1991WISAAClass A
Pius XI1992WISAADivision 1
Pius XI1993WISAADivision 1
Pius XI1995WISAADivision 1
DSHA1996WISAADivision 1
Pius XI1997WISAADivision 1

Spring sports

SchoolYearOrganization
Pius XI1987WISAA
DSHA1988WISAA
Pius XI1989WISAA
Pius XI1990WISAA
Pius XI1991WISAA
Pius XI1992WISAA
DSHA1993WISAA
Pius XI1994WISAA
Pius XI1995WISAA
Catholic Memorial1996WISAA
Pius XI1997WISAA

SchoolYearOrganization
Marquette University1981WISAA
Marquette University1982WISAA
Marquette University1983WISAA
Marquette University1984WISAA
Marquette University1985WISAA
Marquette University1986WISAA
Marquette University1988WISAA
Marquette University1989WISAA
Marquette University1990WISAA
Marquette University1991WISAA
Marquette University1992WISAA
Marquette University1993WISAA
Marquette University1994WISAA
Marquette University1995WISAA
Marquette University1996WISAA
Marquette University1997WISAA

SchoolYearOrganizationDivision
Pius XI1979WISAAClass A
Pius XI1980WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1981WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1982WISAAClass A
Pius XI1983WISAAClass A
Pius XI1984WISAAClass A
Pius XI1985WISAAClass A
Pius XI1986WISAAClass A
Pius XI1987WISAAClass A
Pius XI1988WISAAClass A
Pius XI1989WISAAClass A
Pius XI1990WISAAClass A
Catholic Memorial1991WISAAClass A
Pius XI1992WISAADivision 1
Catholic Memorial1993WISAADivision 1
Catholic Memorial1994WISAADivision 1
Catholic Memorial1995WISAADivision 1
St. Joseph1995WISAADivision 2
Catholic Memorial1996WISAADivision 1