Northeast Iowa Conference


The Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) is a six school athletic conference made up of mid-sized schools in the Northeast Corner of Iowa. The conference dates in 1920, making it one of Iowa's oldest existing athletic conferences.

Northeast Iowa Conference School Locations
Northeast Iowa Conference
NEIC
Established1920
AssociationIHSAA / IGHSAU
Members7 (6 in 2023-24)
Sports fielded
  • 18
RegionNortheast Iowa
Websitewww.northeastiaconference.org

Members

Departing members highlighted in red.

Institution Location Mascot Colors Affiliation 9-11 Enrollment
(2020-2021)[1]
Charles City Charles City Comets     Public 387
Crestwood Cresco Cadets     Public 296
Decorah Decorah Vikings     Public 472
New Hampton New Hampton Chickasaws     Public 256
Waukon Waukon Indians     Public 274
Waverly-Shell Rock Waverly Go-Hawks     Public 565

Waverly-Shell Rock will be removed from the NEIC as of June 30, 2023. [2]


Invited Members

The following school districts were invited to the NEIC on April 25 for the 2023-24 school year. [3] No school district has yet announced its intentions.

Institution Location Mascot Colors Affiliation 9-11 Enrollment

(2020-2021)[4]

 Class Current Conference
MFL-MarMac Monona Bulldogs     Public 175 1A Upper Iowa
North Fayette Valley West Union Tigerhawks     Public 240 2A Upper Iowa
Osage Osage Green Devils     Public 214 2A Top of Iowa
Oelwein Oelwein Huskies     Public 288 2A NICL
Sumner-Fredericksburg Sumner Cougars       Public 202 2A NICL

Oelwein was formerly a conference member from 1931 until 2021. The school district was a charter member. Osage was also a charter member, leaving the conference in 1958.

History

The NEIC was founded in 1920 by seven schools in northeastern Iowa. These seven schools were Charles City, Cresco, Decorah, New Hampton, Oelwein, Osage, and Waverly. All of the schools were located in some of the largest cities in Northeastern Iowa and most were located in their respective county seats. Cedar Falls joined the league in or around 1948, pushing membership to eight. By the early-1960s, Osage and Cedar Falls had left the conference to join a more local and a larger conference, respectively. Cresco also merged with other small area schools to become Crestwood High School around this time, while the small Shell Rock district joined Waverly. The membership of the conference stayed at six for a few years until Allamakee School District in Waukon joined the conference. Membership has been the same since at least 1970. As of 2011, all of the schools are either 3A or 2A by classification, Iowa's second and third largest classes. New Hampton has been a 2A school since 2010, and Waukon moved to class 2A in 2012. 2021-22, Oelwein left for the NICL leaving the conference with 6 members

References
  1. "Iowa High School Athletic Association BEDS Document". Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  2. "NEIC votes a second time to remove Waverly-Shell Rock".
  3. Linder, Jeff. "Northeast Iowa Conference extends expansion invitations to 5 schools". www.thegazette.com. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  4. "Iowa High School Athletic Association BEDS Document". Retrieved March 8, 2021.
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