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The Southeastern Wisconsin Conference was formed for the 1928-29 school year by six high schools in southeastern Wisconsin: Clinton, Genoa City, Palmyra, Waterford, Williams Bay and Wilmot Union.{{Cite news |date=13 March 1929 |title=Wilmot Plays Waterford in Tourney Tilt |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/595848844/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20conference%22 |access-date=11 December 2024 |work=Kenosha News |pages=10}} These were smaller schools than those in the Southern Five Conference, which covered roughly the same geographical area. In 1930, Union Grove and Walworth joined the conference, and with Palmyra's departure the conference now had seven members.{{Cite news |date=24 November 1930 |title=Union Grove Joins Basketball League |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/334267888/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20wisconsin%22%20champions |access-date=2 June 2025 |work=Racine Journal Times |pages=16}} Palmyra rejoined the conference in 1932, and overall membership expanded to ten with the addition of Darien and Norris Foundation in Mukwonago.{{Cite news |date=31 January 1933 |title=Wilmot Retains Cage Loop Lead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/334183094/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20conference%22%20standings |access-date=11 December 2024 |work=The Journal Times |pages=10}} Mukwonago and Racine County Agricultural in Rochester joined the Southeastern in 1934, and the league subdivided into Eastern and Western Sections of six schools each:{{Cite news |date=31 January 1935 |title=Southeastern Wisconsin Conference Statistics |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/405652675/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20conference%22%20mukwonago |access-date=11 December 2024 |work=Wisconsin State Journal |pages=12}}

Walworth left to join the Southern Five Conference in 1935, with Palmyra leaving a year later{{Cite news |date=11 January 1937 |title=Southeastern Cage League to Play 5 Games This Week |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/334244732/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20wisconsin%20conference%22%20standings |access-date=11 December 2024 |work=Racine Journal Times |pages=12}} and Wilmot moving to the conference's Western Section. In 1937, Clinton, Darien, Genoa City and Williams Bay would leave the Southeastern to form the Southern Regional Conference along with Capron (now North Boone) High School in Illinois.{{Cite news |date=24 September 1937 |title=Clinton to Play 6-Man Football |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1128062710/?match=1&terms=%22southern%20regional%20conference%22 |access-date=11 December 2024 |work=The Stoughton Courier |pages=6}} East Troy joined the remaining six schools in the Southeastern to create a seven-member circuit for the 1937-38 school year.{{Cite news |date=26 October 1937 |title=Aggies Eleven Plays East Troy in Title Quest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/334505088/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20conference%22%20standings%20%22east%20troy%22 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Racine Journal Times |pages=19}} The Southeastern Wisconsin Conference began sponsorship of football that season, with six of the seven members coming over from the disbanded Lower Fox Conference, a football-only circuit that had been in existence since 1933.{{Cite news |date=18 September 1933 |title=Sport Briefs (see East Troy) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1128147536/?match=1&terms=%22lower%20fox%22%20football |access-date=3 June 2025 |work=Stoughton Courier |pages=5}}{{Cite news |date=21 September 1937 |title=Wilmot High in Football League |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/596108862/?match=1&terms=east%20troy%20mukwonago%20norris%20rochester%20union%20grove%20waterford%20wilmot%20standings |access-date=3 June 2025 |work=Kenosha News |pages=8}} Membership would continue in this configuration for sixteen years (with Walworth joining as a football-only member in 1947){{Cite news |last=McKenna |first=Eddie |date=8 October 1947 |title=Unlicked Wilmot High Gridders Set for Homecoming |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/596130055/?match=6&terms=southeastern%20wisconsin%20conference%20standings%20walworth |access-date=3 June 2025 |work=Kenosha News |pages=12}} before East Troy, Mukwonago and Wilmot left to join the new Southern Lakes Conference in 1953.{{Cite news |date=1 May 1952 |title=Southern Lakes League Announced |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/588495311/?match=1&terms=%22southern%20lakes%20conference%22 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Lake Geneva Regional News |pages=10}} They were replaced by Hartland, Pewaukee and Slinger, who were left without a conference after the dissolution of the 4-C Conference.{{Cite news |date=8 December 1952 |title=Form New Athletic Conference To Replace Southeastern Loop |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/334420981/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20wisconsin%20conference%22%20hartland%20pewaukee%20slinger |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Racine Journal Times |pages=19}}

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The far-flung geographic footprint of conference membership ushered in a volatile period of changes during the Southeastern Wisconsin Conference's final decade. Hartland High School was closed in 1956 and replaced by Arrowhead High School,{{Cite news |date=17 June 1955 |title=Arrowhead Union School District Plans to Accommodate 550 Pupils |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1066838731/?match=1&terms=%22hartland%20high%20school%22%20%22arrowhead%20high%20school%22 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Waukesha County Freeman |pages=1}} who took Hartland's place in the conference.{{Cite news |date=15 December 1956 |title=Aggies Nudge Arrowhead in Loop Play; Pewaukee Loses |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1070244782/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20conference%22%20standings |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Waukesha County Freeman |pages=8}} Slinger left to join the new Scenic Moraine Conference in 1958,{{Cite news |date=22 August 1958 |title=Indians Get Set to Open Play in New Scenic Moraine League |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1081597935/?match=1&terms=%22scenic%20moraine%20conference%22 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Kewaskum Statesman |pages=1}} and they were replaced by three returning members and one newcomer. Big Foot, Clinton and Palmyra were left without a conference after consolidation and closings whittled away membership of the Southern Regional Conference, and they rejoined the Southeastern in 1958.{{Cite news |last=Dunn |first=Pat |date=12 January 1958 |title=SEC Has Met Growing Pains by Expansion |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/342084474/?match=1&clipping_id=160771931 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Racine Journal Times |pages=35}} That same year, Salem Central (now Westosha Central) High School joined the Southeastern after dealing with their own issues with long travel distances as members of the Braveland Conference.{{Cite news |last=Sovitzky |first=George |date=9 January 1958 |title=Central Quits Braveland, Joins Southeastern |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/596911593/?match=1&terms=%22braveland%20conference%22%20granville |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Kenosha News |pages=19}} In 1959, the Southeastern lost three schools: Arrowhead to the Little Ten, Pewaukee to the Scenic Moraine, and Racine County Agricultural to the school's closing. Pewaukee remained in the Southeastern as a football-only member for the 1959 season before their full membership in the Scenic Moraine started with the winter sports season.{{Cite news |date=3 September 1959 |title=7 Lettermen on Kewaskum High Football Squad |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1035470190/?match=1&terms=scenic%20moraine%20conference%20pewaukee |access-date=3 June 2025 |work=West Bend News |pages=4}} Williams Bay rejoined the conference that year after leaving the Southern Wisconsin Private Schools (SWAPS) Conference to bring membership to eight schools.{{Cite news |date=15 March 1959 |title=Conferences Make Changes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/342251305/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20conference%22%20%22williams%20bay%22 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Racine Journal Times |pages=5 (Section 3)}} Two years later, Big Foot left to join the Southern Lakes Conference, and their place was taken by St. Mary's (now Catholic Central) High School in Burlington, the only private school ever to play in the conference.{{Cite news |date=23 March 1960 |title=St. Mary's Joins SEC Next Year |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/342262039/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20conference%22%20%22st.%20mary%27s%22 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Racine Journal Times |pages=27}}

The Southeastern Conference ended operations in 1963. Four of its members (Salem Central, St. Mary's, Union Grove and Waterford) formed the new Southeastern Badger Conference,{{Cite news |date=7 February 1963 |title=Southern Lakes Is Not Affected as New League Forms |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/588570684/?match=1&terms=%22southeastern%20badger%20conference%22 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Lake Geneva Regional News |pages=13}} while the other four (Clinton, Norris Foundation, Palmyra and Williams Bay) joined with Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Lake Geneva and Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan to form the Indian Trails Conference.{{Cite news |last=Associated Press |title=Indian Trails Prep Conference Formed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/10560553/?match=1&terms=%22indian%20trails%20conference%22 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Janesville Weekly Gazette |pages=16}}{{clear}}

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