South Iowa Cedar League

High school athletic conference in eastern Iowa, United States

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SICL school locations

South Iowa Cedar League

Conference| IHSAA / IGHSAU
Founded| 1936
Sports fielded|

* 13
* men's: 6
* women's: 7

No. of teams| 12
Region| Eastern Iowa
Official website| www.southiowacedarleague.org

The South Iowa Cedar League is a high school athletic conference in south central and southeastern Iowa. The conference is made up of mostly 1A schools, as well as a few 2A schools (the two smallest classes in the state).

A 9-team league from the 1960s, the conference expanded to 12 teams in 1996, then dropped to 11 members when Williamsburg joined the Eastern Iowa Hawkeye Conference in 2000. In the fall of 2014, the schools of the SICL voted to allow Colfax–Mingo to join the SICL, making it a 12-team league again.

## Members[edit]

### East Division[edit]

Institution  | Location  | Mascot  | Colors  | Affiliation  | 2024-2025 BEDS[1]

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Belle Plaine | Belle Plaine | Plainsman  |  | Public  | 94
English Valleys | North English | Bears  |  | Public  | 94
Iowa Valley | Marengo | Tigers  |  | Public  | 110
Keota | Keota | Eagles  |  | Public  | 66
Sigourney | Sigourney | Savages  |  | Public  | 139
Tri-County | Thornburg | Trojans  |  | Public  | 44

### West Division[edit]

Institution  | Location  | Mascot  | Colors  | Affiliation  | 2024-2025 BEDS[2]

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B-G-M | Brooklyn | Bears  |  | Public  | 142
Colfax–Mingo | Colfax | Tigerhawks  |  | Public  | 157
H-L-V | Victor | Warriors  |  | Public  | 63
Lynnville–Sully | Sully | Hawks  |  | Public  | 117
Montezuma | Montezuma | Braves  |  | Public  | 102
North Mahaska | New Sharon | Warhawks  |  | Public  | 159

## Sports[edit]

Boys' sports are administered through the Iowa High School Athletic Association, and girls' sports are administered through the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. Sports classes for each are based on enrollment.

Football is played by districts based on their enrollment classification and geography, instead of by conference. Most SICL schools are in Class A, the smallest of five classifications for the 11-man football game, although Sigourney-Keota -- which has had a cooperative agreement since 1987 -- is Class 1A. As of 2019, four SICL schools -- Iowa Valley, English Valleys, HLV and Tri-County -- play eight-man football.

The conference offers the following sports:

* Fall — volleyball, boys' cross-country and girls' cross-country.
* Winter — Boys' basketball, girls' basketball and boys' wrestling and girls' wrestling.
* Spring — Boys' track and field, girls' track and field, boys' golf and girls' golf.
* Summer — Baseball and softball.

Although the member schools field junior varsity teams (for freshman and sophomore athletes) in many of the above-mentioned sports, conference championships are determined at varsity level only. Also, not all schools field teams in every sport, while others are part of cooperative sharing agreements with schools within and outside the SICL.

### State championships[edit]

Year  | Sport  | Class  | School

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1964  | Girls' track and field  | \-  | Belle Plaine
1965  | Girls' track and field  | \-  | Belle Plaine
1966  | Girls' track and field  | \-  | Belle Plaine
1969  | Girls' basketball  | \-  | Montezuma
1969  | Boys' track and field  | B  | Belle Plaine
1970  | Girls' basketball  | \-  | Montezuma
1971  | Boys' basketball  | 1A  | Montezuma
1971  | Boys' track and field  | B  | Belle Plaine
1976  | Wrestling  | 1A  | Belle Plaine
1979  | Football  | 2A  | Sigourney
1984  | Girls' track and field  | 1A  | Belle Plaine
1985  | Boys' track and field  | 2A  | Iowa Valley
1989  | Boys' basketball  | A  | Keota
1990  | Boys' basketball  | 1A  | Montezuma
1990  | Girls' track and field  | 1A  | Sigourney
1991  | Boys' cross country  | 1A  | Williamsburg
1991  | Girls' track and field  | 1A  | Sigourney
1992  | Girls' track and field  | 1A  | Sigourney
1994  | Girls' golf  | 1A  | Williamsburg
1995  | Football  | 2A  | Sigourney-Keota
1996  | Girls' cross country  | 1A  | Lynnville–Sully
1997  | Girls' basketball  | 1A  | Lynnville–Sully
1998  | Girls' basketball  | 1A  | Lynnville–Sully
1998  | Girls' track and field  | 1A  | Belle Plaine
1999  | Girls' basketball  | 1A  | Lynnville–Sully
2001  | Wrestling  | 1A  | Belle Plaine
2001  | Football  | 2A  | Sigourney-Keota
2001  | Wrestling Duals  | 1A  | Belle Plaine
2002  | Boys' golf  | 2A  | Belle Plaine
2005  | Football  | A  | North Mahaska
2005  | Football  | 2A  | Sigourney-Keota
2005  | Boys' basketball  | 1A  | North Mahaska
2012  | Girls' basketball  | 1A  | North Mahaska
2018  | Girls golf  | 1A  | Iowa Valley
2021  | Boys' basketball  | 1A  | Montezuma

### Membership timeline[edit]

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## External links[edit]

* South Iowa Cedar League Roster

## References[edit]

1. ^ "IHSAA: Classifications".
2. ^ https://www.iahsaa.org/classifications/
3. ^ "South Iowa Cedar League". Retrieved 2020-07-17.

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