Tri-Valley Conference (Michigan)


The Tri-Valley Conference is a school sports league within the Michigan High School Athletic Association, located in the Saginaw, Bay, and Midland areas of Michigan, United States.

Member schools

Current members

Starting in 2024, Standish-Sterling, Bullock Creek, St. Louis all left to join the Jack Pine Conference. Birch Run left to join the Mid-Michigan Activities Conference and Millington left to join the Big Thumb Conference.
St. Charles left following the 2020 year. Bay City John Glenn joined to replace them.
*Shepherd & Pinconning have announced they will be departing following the 2018–2019 school year. Both schools will join the Jack Pine Conference of northern lower Michigan. After this the TVC went through a re-alignment. The Central and East merged. Midland Bullock Creek, Carrollton, Standish-Sterling, and Millington all moved to the west, and Bay City John Glenn joined the east.

Membership timeline


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bar:10 color:red from:1989 till:2016 text: Merrill
bar:11 color:red from:1989 till:2024 text: Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary
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bar:13 color:red from:1991 till:2018 text: Caro
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Athletics History

Basketball

20–21: Saginaw Nouvel reached #1 in the AP Poll before losing in the quarterfinal.
19–20: Carrollton went as high as #4 in the AP Poll.
20–21: Covid shortened season.
20–21: Bridgeport went 10–2 in the conference and coach Kevin Marshall took the Bearcats to the state semis where they lost to Battle Creek Pennfield. Carrollton lost their lone conference game with Hemlock and went to the regional finals before losing to BP, 54–53.
21–22: Freeland went to the Breslin center and lost in the state semis.

Football History

Bold: state champion
*Ithaca has won 15 consecutive TVC West championships
^Frankenmuth has won 9 consecutive TVC East championships, and have also won 53 straight TVC matchups, last lost to Millington in '14.