Pioneer Conference (Indiana)


The Pioneer Conference is an IHSAA-sanctioned athletic conference formed in 2009. It is made up of ten small private, military, laboratory, and/or charter schools from Delaware, Hamilton, Johnson, Madison, Marion, and Wayne counties. All schools are Class 1A or 2A IHSAA members, aside from the much larger Indianapolis Shortridge Charter School, which is a 4A member.

History

The conference was formed in 2009, with four Indianapolis-area private schools joining with recently reopened IPS school Attucks, whose medical focus causes the school to be smaller than its public counterparts. The 2010–11 school year also brought another small IPS school into the fold, Shortridge. The Conference expanded outside of the immediate Indianapolis area in 2015, adding three Independent schools, as well as Muncie Burris, who had been voted out of the Mid-Eastern Conference the year before. Indianapolis Attucks left in 2018, and was replaced by Bethesda Christian. Park Tudor would also join the conference in 2019. In 2025 Herron joined the conference as its 10th member.

Membership timeline


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All-Conference Teams

Baseball

2016
NameClassSchool
Tristan WilliamsFr.Anderson Prep
Krae SparksSr.Greenwood Christian
Joel StinnettSo.Greenwood Christian
Nate WeemsSr.Greenwood Christian
Isaiah BreesSo.Liberty Christian
Peyton QuinnJr.Liberty Christian
Matt ArmstrongSr.Muncie Burris
Cliff DickmanSr.Seton Catholic
Nick MatthewsSeton Catholic
Vince MoseyJr.Seton Catholic
Colten PippengerSr.Seton Catholic
Hudson BeboSo.University
Dawson EstepFr.University
John LawickiJr.University
Zach NerneySr.University