Marawood Conference

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The Marawood Conference was founded in 1949 by seven small high schools in north central Wisconsin: Athens, Auburndale, Edgar, Marathon, Pittsville, Rudolph, and Startford.{{Cite news |date=16 November 1949 |title=Rudolph Defeats Athens 29-24 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/242730023/?match=1&terms=athens%20auburndale%20edgar%20marathon%20pittsville%20rudolph%20stratford |access-date=8 February 2025 |work=Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune |pages=6}} These schools were all former members of the Marathon County League (1928-1949) and Wood County League (1925-1942), and the name of the conference reflects the location of its original member schools. Membership remained consistent through the first thirteen years of the conference's history, with the first changes coming in 1962. Rudolph High School closed and was consolidated into Wisconsin Rapids,{{Cite news |date=2 March 1962 |title=Rudolph School Merger with Wisconsin Rapids Ordered |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/250490937/?match=1&terms=%22rudolph%20high%20school%22 |access-date=8 February 2025 |work=Stevens Point Journal |pages=11}} and two schools (Granton and Spencer) joined after the dissolution of the 3-C Conference.{{Cite news |date=15 November 1962 |title=Cloverbelt, Marawood Open Conference Seasons Friday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/267316218/?match=1&terms=%22rib%20lake%22%20westboro%20flambeau |access-date=8 February 2025 |work=Marshfield News-Herald |pages=17}} Abbotsford moved over from the Cloverbelt Conference in 1966,{{Cite news |date=12 November 1955 |title=Abbotsford 5 Prepares for First MC Season |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/272923370/?match=1&terms=%22marawood%20conference%22%20abbotsford |access-date=8 February 2025 |work=Wausau Daily Herald |pages=12}} increasing the roster to nine schools. That number jumped to eleven in 1970 when two schools who were displaced by their conferences disbanding entered: Nekoosa from the Vacationland Conference and Rib Lake from the Flambeau League.{{Cite news |date=22 October 1969 |title=Marawood Conference votes to enroll Nekoosa |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/243672345/?match=1&terms=%22vacationland%20conference%22%20ending |access-date=8 February 2025 |work=Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune |pages=14}}

Granton left to join the Central State Conference in 1972,{{Cite news |date=22 November 1971 |title=CSC Admits Two New for 1971-72 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/251217384/?match=1&terms=%22central%20state%20conference%22%20granton%20gresham |access-date=8 February 2025 |work=Stevens Point Journal |pages=14}} bringing membership back down to ten schools. They would rejoin in 1976,{{Cite news |date=27 June 1975 |title=Papers, Apaches shifted to Lumberjack |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/243931832/?match=1&terms=%22marawood%20conference%22%20granton%20realignment |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune |pages=6}} replacing the departing Auburndale and Nekoosa, who both moved on to the Lumberjack Conference. Two years later, Prentice would join from the Lakeland Conference,{{Cite news |date=22 August 1978 |title=Edgar eyes another Marawood crown |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/267693351/?match=1&terms=%22marawood%20conference%22%20prentice |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Marshfield News-Herald |pages=11}} and the conference's stable would stay intact for just over two decades until three new schools were added in 2000: Assumption in Wisconsin Rapids, Columbus Catholic in Marshfield, and Newman Catholic in Wausau.{{Cite news |last=Kohn |first=Dan |date=8 April 1999 |title=New home for Dons: They'll join Marawood Conference |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/267971072/?match=1&terms=%22marawood%20conference%22%20assumption%20columbus%20newman |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Marshfield News-Herald |pages=1}} These schools were recent additions to the WIAA after the merger with WISAA, and all were previously members of the Central Wisconsin Catholic Conference. Auburndale would also reenter the Marawood Conference that year,{{Cite news |last=Christopher |first=Joel |date=7 May 1999 |title=Marawood Conference an all-around realignment winner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/274099286/?match=1&terms=%22marawood%20conference%22%20auburndale%20realignment |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Wausau Daily Herald |pages=1C}} and a fifteenth member school would join in 2005 (Northland Lutheran in Kronenwetter).{{Cite news |last=Lecker |first=Paul |date=8 December 2005 |title=Marawood Conference coaches mixed about schedule changes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/266545406/?match=1&terms=%22marawood%20conference%22%20%22northland%20lutheran%22 |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Marshfield News-Herald |pages=7}} The Marawood Conference would split into North and South Divisions to accommodate the recent expansion:

In 2008, Park Falls and Phillips joined the Marawood Conference after the Lumberjack Conference ceased operations.{{Cite news |last=Massoglia |first=Mark |date=4 December 2008 |title=New-look Pittsville strives for more success |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/244965423/?match=1&terms=%22marawood%20conference%22%20%22park%20falls%22%20phillips%20realignment |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune |pages=11}} They joined the North Division, with Edgar, Marathon and Newman Catholic moving to the South Division. These three schools replaced Columbus Catholic, Granton and Spencer, all of whom joined the Cloverbelt Conference.{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Jake |date=3 August 2008 |title=Finding opponents tough for teams in new-look WVC |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/245079962/?match=1&terms=%22cloverbelt%20conference%22%20columbus%20granton%20spencer%20realignment |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune |pages=4B}} In 2009, Park Falls was merged with Glidden of the Indianhead Conference to form Chequamegon,{{Cite news |date=26 July 2009 |title=School District Consolidation History (table) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/304868762/?match=1&terms=%22park%20falls%22%20glidden%20chequamegon |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Eau Claire Leader-Telegram |pages=A6}} who inherited Park Falls' Marawood Conference membership. Divisional alignment remained intact for the next five years before Edgar was moved back to the North Division.{{Cite web |date=10 February 2025 |title=Marawood - North |url=https://www.maxpreps.com/wi/basketball/14-15/conference/marawood--north/?leagueid=6f438280-8bfb-4524-980b-f526e06ecbc3 |access-date=10 February 2025 |website=MaxPreps}} This lasted for three years before moving back to the South Division to replace two schools that left to join the Central Wisconsin Conference: Northland Lutheran and Pittsville.{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Tim |date=23 June 2016 |title=Proposal would expand CWC to 21 schools |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/198530105/?match=1&terms=%22central%20wisconsin%20conference%22%20pittsville |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=Wausau Daily Herald |pages=B1}} Currently, the Marawood Conference has twelve members in the following alignment:

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{{Reflist}}

• [https://www.marawoodconference.org/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5genie=152 Marawood Conference (official website)]

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