Central Buckeye Conference

The Central Buckeye Conference is an OHSAA athletic league whose members are located in the Ohio counties of Champaign, Clark, Logan, Madison, and Union. The league was established in the fall of 1974.

Current members

CBC membership as of the 2017-2018 school year. Kenton Trail Division members are in red, Mad River Division members are in blue, and future members are striped in their respective future division assignments.

Kenton Trail Division
School	Nickname	Location	Colors	Joined Conference

Bellefontaine	Chieftains	Bellefontaine		1974
Jonathan Alder	Pioneers	Plain City		2017
Kenton Ridge	Cougars	Springfield		1977
Shawnee	Braves	Springfield		1974
Tecumseh	Arrows	New Carlisle		1991

Mad River Division
School	Nickname	Location	Colors	Joined Conference

Benjamin Logan	Raiders	Bellefontaine		2001
Graham	Falcons	St. Paris		2001
Indian Lake	Lakers	Lewistown		2001
Northwestern	Warriors	Springfield		1982
Urbana	Hillclimbers	Urbana		1974

Future members

School	Nickname	Location	Colors	Joining
London	Red Raiders	London		Join date not officially set
North Union	Wildcats	Richwood		Join date not officially set

Former members

School	Nickname	Location	Tenure	Left For

Greenon	Knights	Springfield	1974-2017	OHC
Northeastern	Jets	Springfield	1974-2001	OHC
Miami East	Vikings	Casstown	2001-2006	CCC
Stebbins	Indians	Riverside	2007-2016	GWOC
Tippecanoe	Red Devils	Tipp City	2001-2016	GWOC

Membership Timeline

Kenton Trail Division members are in red, Mad River Division members are in blue, and former members are in green.

History

The CBC was established in time for the 1974-75 school year. The present-day divisions were created to align schools based on size, and every sport recognizes a champion for each division.

The charter members of the Central Buckeye Conference were Bellefontaine, Greenon, London, Northeastern, Shawnee, and Urbana.

In 1977, New school Kenton Ridge joined the CBC becoming the 7th member.

In 1978, London left the CBC after 4 years for the now defunct Central Buckeye League bringing the CBC back to 6 members.

Northwestern would join the CBC in 1982 bringing the conference back to 7 members which would eventually grow to 8 when Tecumseh joined in 1991 from the Greater Miami Valley Conference.

The CBC would remain at 8 members until they added 5 new members in Benjamin Logan, Graham, Miami East and Tippecanoe from the Southwestern Rivers Conference, Indian Lake from the Three Rivers Conference, while Northeastern left for the Ohio Heritage Conference bringing the total number of members to 12.

Miami East would leave to join the Cross County Conference in 2006. They would eventually be replaced by Stebbins who joined in 2007.

The CBC would remain at 12 members until 2016 when both Stebbins and Tippecanoe left to join the Greater Western Ohio Conference.^[2] Leaving the CBC with 2 divisions of 5 teams each.

In July 2017, both London's and North Union's Board of Educations have approved their membership for the CBC^[3]. London will join the Kenton Trail Division with Bellefontaine, Jonathan Alder, Kenton Ridge, Shawnee, and Tecumseh. North Union will join the Mad River Division with Benjamin Logan, Graham, Indian Lake, Northwestern, and Urbana. Date of entry is undetermined. This move brought the CBC back to 12 members allowing for 2, 6 team divisions which allows for easier scheduling.

References

↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
↑ "GWOC accepts Tipp, Stebbins".
↑ "Two new schools ‘a good match’ for Central Buckeye Conference".

External links

Central Buckeye Conference Home Page

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