North Shore Conference


The North Shore Conference is a high school athletic conference in Wisconsin. It was founded in 1985, and membership is concentrated in the northern suburbs of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. All member schools are affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.

History

1985-1992

The North Shore Conference was one of three conferences formed during the realignment of high school athletic conferences in southeastern Wisconsin for the 1985-86 school year. Six members came from the Braveland Conference and four came from the disbanded Suburban Conference. Other names considered for the conference were the Heritage Conference, Lakeshore Ten and North Suburban Conference.

1992-2017

Shorewood left the North Shore Conference in 1992 to take West Milwaukee's place in the Parkland Conference after the school closed its doors. In 1993, Wauwatosa East and Wauwatosa West left to become charter members of the new Woodland Conference, with Menomonee Falls moving over from the defunct Braveland Conference as a replacement. They would only last four years in the North Shore Conference and were replaced by Milwaukee Lutheran High School in 1997. Milwaukee Lutheran was in the process of joining the WIAA as part of the merger with the Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association, and was the first private high school in the conference.

2017-present

Membership would stay consistent for the next twenty years before further realignment occurred. In 2017, Germantown left to join the Greater Metro Conference and Milwaukee Lutheran became a member of the Woodland Conference. They were replaced by four schools who were displaced after the dissolution of the Wisconsin Little Ten Conference: Hartford Union, Slinger, West Bend East and West Bend West. The North Shore Conference will become a seven-member loop in 2025 with the loss of Port Washington, West Bend East and West Bend West to the Glacier Trails Conference.

Football-only alignment

In February 2019, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association, the WIAA released a sweeping football-only realignment for Wisconsin to commence with the 2020 football season and run on a two-year cycle. The North Shore Conference's original football group consisted of full conference members Cedarburg, Hartford Union Homestead, Nicolet, Slinger, West Bend East, West Bend West and Whitefish Bay. This alignment is set to stay in place until the 2026-2027 cycle, when West Bend East and West Bend West move to their primary conference affiliation in the Glacier Trails Conference, which is set to begin competition next year as an all-sport conference before its first football season in 2026. The two schools currently slated to replace them are Pewaukee of the Classic 8 Conference and Wisconsin Lutheran of the Woodland Conference.

List of conference members

Current full members

Current associate members

Current co-operative members

Former full members

Future football-only members

Membership timeline

Full members


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Football members (since 2020)


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Membership map

Sanctioned sports

List of state champions

Fall sports

SchoolYearDivision
Homestead1986Class A
Whitefish Bay2008Division 1
Slinger2023Division 1

SchoolYearDivision
Port Washington1985Division 2
Germantown1998Division 2
Homestead1999Division 1
Germantown2003Division 2
Homestead2006Division 1
Homestead2008Division 1
Homestead2012Division 2
Homestead2015Division 2
Homestead2018Division 2
Slinger2024Division 2

SchoolYearDivision
Homestead1987Single Division
Homestead1999Single Division
Homestead2011Division 1
Homestead2012Division 1

SchoolYearDivision
Cedarburg1989Single Division
Wauwatosa East1990Single Division
Cedarburg1991Single Division
Homestead1993Division 1
Whitefish Bay1994Division 1
Whitefish Bay1995Division 2
Cedarburg1996Division 1
Homestead1999Division 1
Whitefish Bay2015Division 2
Whitefish Bay2016Division 2
Whitefish Bay2017Division 2

SchoolYearDivision
Germantown1992Division 2
Germantown1993Division 2
Grafton2004Division 2
Grafton2005Division 2
Grafton2013Division 2
Grafton2014Division 2
Whitefish Bay2024Division 2

SchoolYearDivision
Nicolet1989Single Division
Nicolet1990Single Division
Nicolet1992Single Division
Nicolet1993Single Division
Nicolet1994Division 1
Nicolet1995Division 1
Whitefish Bay1995Division 2
Nicolet1996Division 1
Whitefish Bay1996Division 2
Nicolet1998Division 1
Whitefish Bay1998Division 2
Nicolet1999Division 1
Nicolet2000Division 1
Whitefish Bay2005Division 1
Whitefish Bay2007Division 1
Homestead2008Division 1
Homestead2009Division 1
Homestead2010Division 1
Homestead2011Division 1
Homestead2012Division 1
Homestead2016Division 1
Homestead2017Division 1
Homestead2018Division 1
Homestead2019Division 1