River Valley Conference (Iowa)

There are 14 full members of the River Valley Conference. Each of those schools are in Class 2A, Iowa's second smallest enrollment class. Anamosa joined the conference in the 2018-2019 school year to bring the total to the current 14 schools.

Institution	Location	Mascot	Colors	Affiliation	9-11 Enrollment (2019-2020)[2]
Anamosa	Anamosa	Raiders		Public	289
Bellevue	Bellevue	Comets		Public	163
Camanche	Camanche	Indians		Public	231
Cascade (Western Dubuque CSD)	Cascade	Cougars		Public	175
Durant	Durant	Wildcats		Public	167
Mid-Prairie	Wellman	Golden Hawks		Public	294
Monticello	Monticello	Panthers		Public	301
North Cedar	Stanwood	Knights		Public	152
Northeast	Goose Lake	Rebels		Public	205
Regina Catholic	Iowa City	Regals		Private	159
Tipton	Tipton	Tigers		Public	241
West Branch	West Branch	Bears		Public	179
West Liberty	West Liberty	Comets		Public	284
Wilton	Wilton	Beavers		Public	187

The school fields athletic teams in 21 sports, including:[3]

• Summer: Baseball and softball.
• Fall: Football, volleyball, boys' and girls' swimming, and boys' and girls' cross country.
• Winter: Boys' and girls' basketball, boys' and girls' bowling, and wrestling.
• Spring: Boys' and girls' track and field; boys' and girls' tennis, boys' and girls' soccer, and boys' and girls' golf.

Although the member schools field freshman — and in some cases, junior varsity — teams in many of the above-mentioned sports, conference championships are determined at varsity levels only. Some schools do not offer all 21 sports. Bowling, Soccer, Swimming and Tennis are the most common exclusions.

The River Valley Conference traces its history to 2008, when it was formed as the Cedar Valley Conference. That year, the seven original schools left the former Eastern Iowa Hawkeye Conference, which was dissolved. Four member schools from the old EIHC — Clear Creek-Amana, Mount Vernon, Solon and Williamsburg — were growing in size and placed in the WaMaC Conference. The seven remaining schools joined North Cedar High School, (which had been in the Big East Conference) in forming the new CVC.

Starting with the 2013-2014 school year, former Big East members Bellevue, Camanche and Northeast were placed in the CVC, along with Cascade and Monticello.[4] The events that eventually resulted in the changes began in the early 2010s, when Camanche began petitioning to leave the Big East for the CVC, and CVC member schools denied them admission, citing travel distances. The Iowa Department of Education eventually was asked to help resolve the dilemma. Not all CVC athletic directors and coaches welcomed the Iowa Department of Education's decision, expressing concerns about travel distances, loss of classroom time and gate receipts for some contests.[5]

As a result of the changes, the CVC was renamed the River Valley Conference for the 2013-2014 school year.[6]

In January 2017, Anamosa, a member of the WaMaC Conference, announced it would be joining the RVC, effective in 2018-2019, bringing the league to 14 schools.[7]

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