River Valley Conference (Illinois)

The River Valley Conference is a high school sports Conference in northeastern Illinois, United States. The conference is part of the Illinois High School Association. The conference started around 1940 as the Kankakee Valley Conference, making up schools from the Kankakee County area. The conference had split into two divisions (Kan-Will and Will-Ro-Kee) in 1953 to make football scheduling more manageable, but maintained the conference in basketball and other sports.[1] With the Iroquois and Vermilion Valley conferences folding, the KVC took on some of their members, prompting the change to its current name. The biggest shift since then occurred in 2006, as its larger schools left to join schools with similar membership, leaving the RVC as a rural, smaller school conference.

Membership

Current

School Location Mascot Colors County Enrollment Class Year Joined Previous Conference
Beecher Beecher Bobcats           Will 335 2A pre-1948
Donovan Donovan Wildcats           Iroquois 101 1A 1989 Iroquois
Gardner-South Wilmington Gardner Panthers           Grundy 187 1A 1989 Vermilion Valley
Grant Park Grant Park Dragons           Kankakee 164 1A pre-1948
Illinois Lutheran Crete, Illinois Chargers           Will 120
198 (mult.)		 1A 2006 Tollway
St. Anne St. Anne Cardinals           Kankakee 231 1A pre-1948
Tri-Point Cullom Chargers           Livingston 112 1A 2011 River Valley

Former

Note: records before 1948-49 are incomplete. Some teams may have played in the conference before the date recorded, other schools may have played in the conference's early years.

School Location Mascot Colors County Year Joined Previous Conference Year Left Conference Joined
Bonfield Bonfield Braves           Kankakee pre-1940 1941 none (consolidated into Reddick)
Crete-Monee1 Crete Warriors           Will 1940 none (new school) 1962 Southeast Suburban
R.U.C.E.2 Reddick Bulldogs           Kankakee 1944 1956 Northeast
Bishop McNamara3 Kankakee Irish           Kankakee pre-1948 1989 Chicago Catholic
Bradley-Bourbonnais Bradley Boilermakers           Kankakee pre-1948 1962 Southeast Suburban
Gilman Gilman Owls           Iroquois pre-1948 1962 Vermilion Valley
Manteno Manteno Panthers           Kankakee pre-1948 2006 Interstate 8
Momence Momence Redskins           Kankakee pre-1948 2006 Sangamon Valley
Peotone Peotone Blue Devils           Will pre-1948 2006 Interstate 8
Central Clifton Comets           Iroquois 1950 none (new school) 1980 Wauseca
Herscher4 Herscher Tigers           Kankakee 1950 Vermilion Valley 2006 Interstate 8
  1. Known as Crete until 1948.
  2. Known as Reddick until 1950.
  3. Known as St. Patrick until 1955.
  4. Herscher played concurrently in the KVC and VVC from 1950 to 1954.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Illinois HS Glory Days (2005-01-30). "The Great Conferences". Retrieved 2014-02-10.
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