Lorain County League


The Lorain County League is an Ohio high school athletic league that will begin with the 2019-20 school year and will be made up of eight schools predominantly based in Lorain County, Ohio. All schools are members of the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Previous versions of a Lorain County League existed from 1924–61 and again from 1968-2005.
SchoolNicknameLocationDistrictColorsMiddle schoolTenure
Black RiverPiratesSullivan5:15Black, Gold
Black River Middle School2019-
BrooksideCardinalsSheffield4:12Red, Black
Sheffield Middle School2019-
ClearviewClippersLorain4:12Blue, Gold
Durling Middle School2019-
ColumbiaRaidersColumbia Station5:16Kelly Green, White
Columbia Middle School2019-
FirelandsFalconsOberlin4:12Red, White, Black
South Amherst Middle School2019-
KeystoneWildcatsLaGrange4:12Purple, White
Keystone Middle School2019-
OberlinPhoenixOberlin6:19Red, Blue
Langston Middle School2019-
WellingtonDukesWellington5:16Maroon, White
McCormick Middle School2019-

League history

The most recent idea for the new LCL was formed in 2017 when the eight primarily Lorain County schools announced they would leave the Patriot Athletic Conference to form their own league by 2020.
In response to the PAC's imminent dissolution, Brooklyn and Lutheran West were accepted by a league-wide vote in April 2018 to join the Chagrin Valley Conference in 2019-20.
In May 2018, Buckeye and Fairview were approved to join the Great Lakes Conference for the 2019-20 school year as their eighth and ninth members.
Since the four schools that weren't invited to join the new LCL were able to leave the PAC after the 2018-19 school year, the LCL was able to begin a year sooner than anticipated.

Previous Lorain County League/Conference memberships

The first version of the LCL began in 1924 as one of several small-school county leagues across Ohio. The league survived the consolidation wave until 1961, when the schools who weren't already aligned with the Inland Conference joined the Lakeland Conference. The conference revived itself in 1986 as the Lorain County Conference when the Lakeland Conference collapsed, and the schools banded together for roughly two decades until the schools split, this time to help form the Patriot Athletic and West Shore conferences.

First Version (Lorain County League, 1924–61)

  1. Concurrent with Inland Conference 1957-61.
  2. Concurrent with Inland Conference 1959-61.
Division Alignments

Second Version (Lorain County Conference, 1986-2005)

SchoolNicknameLocationColorsTenureLeft for
AvonEaglesAvonPurple, Gold
1986-2005West Shore Conference
BrooksideCardinalsSheffieldRed, Black
1986-2005Patriot Athletic Conference
ClearviewClippersLorainBlue, Gold
1986-2005Patriot Athletic Conference
Elyria WestWolverinesElyriaOrange, Brown
1986-1996Closed, absorbed by Elyria High School
FirelandsFalconsOberlinRed, White, Black
1986-2005Patriot Athletic Conference
KeystoneWildcatsLaGrangePurple, White
1986-2005Patriot Athletic Conference
MidviewMiddiesGraftonBlue, Silver
1996-2005West Shore Conference
OberlinPhoenixOberlinRed, Blue
1986-2005Patriot Athletic Conference
WellingtonDukesWellingtonMaroon, White
1986-2005Patriot Athletic Conference