Sandusky Bay Conference

Members

Former members

Athletic competition

• baseball; boys
• bowling; boys & girls
• cross-country; boys & girls
• basketball; boys & girls
• cheerleading; boys & girls
• football; boys
• golf; boys & girls
• soccer; boys & girls
• softball; girls
• swimming; boys & girls
• diving; boys & girls
• tennis; boys & girls
• track & field; boys & girls
• volleyball; girls
• wrestling; boys

League history

1940s

• 1948: The SBC is formed with inaugural members Danbury, Elmore, Genoa, Gibsonburg, Oak Harbor, Port Clinton & Fremont St. Joseph CC.
• 1949: Port Clinton leaves and is replaced by Clyde.

1950s

• 1950: Sandusky St. Mary CC joins.
• 1956: Genoa leaves to help form the Northern Lakes League.
• 1957: Danbury leaves.
• 1958: Elmore leaves and is replaced by Tiffin Calvert and Carey.
• 1959: Gibsonburg leaves.

1960s

• 1960: Lakota & Mohawk join.
• 1963: Carey leaves and is replaced by Margaretta & Gibsonburg, who rejoins after a four-year absence.
• 1966: Tiffin Calvert leaves.
• 1968: Huron & Fostoria St. Wendelin join.

1970s

• 1972: Gibsonburg, Lakota & Oak Harbor leave to form the Suburban Lakes League. St. Wendelin also leaves the league. They are replaced by Sandusky Perkins & Tiffin Calvert, who rejoins the league.

1980s

• 1980: Port Clinton leaves the Great Lakes League and rejoins after a 31-year absence.
• 1986: St. Joseph CC & Tiffin Calvert leave to help form the Midland Athletic League. They are replaced by Edison, who left the Firelands Conference, and by Oak Harbor, who returns from the SLL.

2010s

• 2013: On February 1, St. Mary CC announced they would be forming a new league called the Sandusky River League in 2014-15 with Calvert, Lakota, New Riegel, Old Fort & St. Joseph CC. St. Wendelin would join them later. This league's intent was to have 8 football-playing members and 2-3 non-football schools. This league will ultimately give a home to the remaining MAL schools.
• 2014: On December 10, the SBC announced plans to expand. Invitations were accepted by Lakota, New Riegel, Old Fort, Fremont St. Joseph Central Catholic, Sandusky St. Mary Central Catholic & Fostoria St. Wendelin Catholic, Tiffin Calvert, a former member of the SBC now a member of the TAAC, and Vermilion, currently a member of the West Shore Conference.
• 2016: On March 16, Clyde principal William J. Webb and the Northern Ohio League announced that the NOL will merge into the SBC for the 2017-18 school year. Bellevue, Norwalk, Sandusky, Shelby, Tiffin Columbian, and Willard will become the league's newest members.
• 2017: Both Gibsonburg and Danbury announced that they would leave the TAAC and return to the SBC for the 2018-2019 school year. In April 2017, St. Wendelin announced that it would close in June following the 2016-2017 school year.
• 2019: In August 2017 Hopewell-Loudon announced that they would leave the Blanchard Valley Conference for the Sandusky Bay Conference in the 2019-2020 school year after being offered an invitation to replace Shelby.

2020s

• 2021: On May 20, 2021, the school board at Woodmore announced they were going to accept the Sandusky Bay Conference's invitation to join their league for the 2023–24 school year. It is speculated that Woodmore will play in the SBC's River Division with schools of similar enrollment size.
• 2023: On October 20, 2023, St. Joseph Central Catholic announced they would play 8-man football in the Northern 8 Football Conference beginning in 2024. They join fellow SBC members Danbury and St. Mary CC in the 8-man circuit.
• 2024: In January 2024, Northwood and the SBC announced that the Rangers would be joining the River Division for the 2025–26 school year. Northwood had been a member of the Toledo Area Athletic Conference since 2000. The SBC River will then be split into a North Division and a South Division.

Conference split

2025

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