Western Indiana Conference
School Location Mascot County Year Joined Previous Conference Year Left Conference Joined
Brazil Brazil Red Devils 11 Clay 1944 Clay County 1982 Independents ( consolidated into Northview 1984 )
James A. Garfield Terre Haute Purple Eagles 84 Vigo 1944 Vigo County 1971 none ( consolidated into Terre Haute North )
Gerstmeyer Tech Terre Haute Black Cats 84 Vigo 1944 Vigo County 1971 none ( consolidated into Terre Haute North )
Linton-Stockton Linton Miners 28 Greene 1944 Southern Indiana 1974 SW Indiana
State Lab Terre Haute Little Sycamores 84 Vigo 1944 Vigo County 1978 none ( school closed )
South Vermillion Clinton Wildcats 83 Vermillion 1944 Vermillion County 1982 Wabash River
Sullivan Sullivan Golden Arrows 77 Sullivan 1944 Southern Indiana 1982 Independents ( TRC 1986 )
William H. Wiley Terre Haute Red Streaks 84 Vigo 1944 Vigo County 1971 none ( consolidated into Terre Haute South )
Honey Creek Allendale Honey Bees 84 Vigo 1945 Vigo County 1971 none ( consolidated into Terre Haute South )
Greencastle Greencastle Tiger Cubs 67 Putnam 1949 South Central 1977 West Central
Jasonville Jasonville Yellow Jackets 28 Greene 1949 1963 none ( consolidated into Shakamak )
Dugger Dugger Bulldogs 77 Sullivan 1950 Sullivan County 1958 Sullivan County
Lebanon Lebanon Tigers 06 Boone < 1951 1967 Sagamore
Bishop Schulte Terre Haute Golden Bears 84 Vigo 1953 none ( new school ) 1977 none ( school closed )
West Vigo West Terre Haute Vikings 84 Vigo 1960 none ( new school ) 1982 Independent ( WIC 1999 )
Shakamak Jasonville Lakers 28 Greene 1963 none ( new school ) 1964 Tri-River
North Knox Bicknell Warriors 42 Knox 1977 Blue Chip 1981 Independents ( BCC 1986 )
Old Conference Membership
The Western Indiana Conference is the name of two IHSAA-sanctioned conferences based in West Central Indiana. The first formed as an eight-team league that formed as a basketball league in 1944 as the West Central Conference. The league started expanding in 1945 and changed its name to the Western Indiana Conference. With consolidation forcing many membership changes in the 1970s (including all the Terre Haute public schools), the conference folded at four members in 1983. The second incarnation started in 1999, including four previous members (or their current incarnations) from the old conference, and three other schools from South Central Indiana. Its only change in membership in its first 16 years was in football, where South Vermilion played independently for the 2007 and 2008 seasons before rejoining the conference. March 2014 marked a sea change for the conference, as what originally was an invite for Greencastle turned into inviting the remaining five teams of the West Central Conference to join. All seven WIC schools and all five WCC schools voted to expand the conference into 2015, making a 12 team, two division league. After the 2018-2019 school year, Cascade will depart from the Western Indiana Conference to join longtime rival and former West Central Conference member Monrovia in the Indiana Crossroads Conference. Cascade will fill a vacancy that Park Tudor is leaving. This will align Cascade with Indianapolis area schools such as Triton Central, Speedway, and Beech Grove. The move leaves the Western Indiana Conference will 11 schools.