OHSAA Southwest Region athletic conferences


This is a list of high school athletic conferences in the Southwest Region of Ohio, as defined by the OHSAA. Because the names of localities and their corresponding high schools do not always match and because there is often a possibility of ambiguity with respect to either the name of a locality or the name of a high school, the following table gives both in every case, with the locality name first, in plain type, and the high school name second in boldface type. The school's team nickname is given last.

Central Buckeye Conference

Kenton Trail Division
Mad River Division
Former members
Conference Website: http://www.chlsports.com/
Former members
Website: http://www.cmacstats.com/
Blue Division
Red Division
Former members
The conference was originally the Darke County League, begun in either the 1920s or early 1930s, and renamed itself after most of the Wayne Trace League merged with the DCL in 1978. The conference will end in 2021, as the schools will split into the Three Rivers Conference and the Western Ohio Athletic Conference.
Website: http://www.crosscountyconference.com/
Former members
Dayton high schools were part of the Southwest Ohio Public League from 2002 to 2007, and will play football in the same conference beginning in 2015.
Former members
The Eastern Cincinnati Conference comprises teams mostly from larger schools in eastern Hamilton County and nearby counties in Greater Cincinnati.
http://eccsports.com/
Former Members
The GCL was restructured in 2013, as the Girls' Greater Catholic League was merged into the conference. The GGCL co-ed schools would merge into the same divisions as their GCL counterparts, while the single-sex schools were placed into the South Division.
Conference Website: ,
North
Central
South
South
Former members
Conference Website: http://www.gmcsports.com/
Former schools
The GWOC was formed in 2001 as a merger of the Western Ohio League and Greater Miami Valley Conference.
There were 2 divisions prior to the 2020-2021 season. In 2020-2021, the divisions were done away with.
Conference Website: http://www.gwocsports.com/
Former Schools
Conference Website: http://www.metrobuckeyesports.com/
Former members
Conference Website: http://miamivalleyconference.org/
Scarlet Division
Gray Division
Scarlet Division
Gray Division
Former members
The Miami Valley League began competition during the 1926–27 school year, when the MVL held its first league championship in track. Football and basketball began with the 1927–28 school year. The league operated through the 1974–75 school year, when the three long-time members of the league formed the Miami Central Conference with similar-sized schools. The Miami Valley League resumed competition during the 2019-2020 school year as part of a breakoff from the Greater Western Ohio Conference
Miami Division
Valley Division
Former Schools
North Division
South Division
Former members
The conference was formed as the Clermont County League in 1919, and changed their name to the Southern Buckeye in 1987.
Conference Website: http://www.sbaac.net/
American Division
National Division
Former Members
Conference website: http://www.swocsports.com/
Former members
This is the second incarnation of the SWOPL, which will include Cincinnati Metro schools, Dayton City schools, and the football-playing public schools of the OVAL. The first incarnation of the league was formed by the Dayton City League, who had been losing schools to consolidation, and the Queen City Conference, who had lost almost all of the suburban schools to other conferences. The league only lasted five years, as travel concerns, particularly I-75 rush hour traffic, trumped the lack of in-city opponents. The new version of the league is for varsity football only, which should alleviate travel problems.

Football-Only League (2015-)

Divisions are current for the 2017 season.
American Division
National Division
American Division
National Division
Former members
Both teams played in the American Division while in SWOPL play. Both left for the Fort Ancient Valley Conference
http://www.swblsports.com/

Southwestern Division (Bigger Schools)

Former Members
This conference will be formed in 2021 by members of the Cross-County Conference, Metro Buckeye Conference, Northwest Central Conference, and Southwestern Buckeye League.
This conference will be formed in 2021 by ten schools from the Cross-County Conference being joined by Dixie and Preble-Shawnee from the Southwestern Buckeye League.