Western Valley Activities Conference


The Western Valley Activities Conference is an athletic conference for small high schools in Western Iowa. Formed in 2008 from the merger of the longstanding Maple Valley Conference and Boyer Valley Conference, the league now consists of 9 schools from the old Maple Valley Conference and Siouxland Christian.

Current members

SchoolLocationMascotColors9-11 Enrollment
Kingsley-PiersonKingsleyPanthers 103
Lawton-BronsonLawtonEagles 141
MVAOCOUMapletonRams 179
OABCIGIda GroveFalcons 230
Ridge ViewHolsteinRaptors 137
River ValleyCorrectionvilleWolverines 103
Siouxland ChristianSioux CityEagles 67
West MononaOnawaSpartans 142
WestwoodSloanRebels 122
Woodbury CentralMovilleWildcats 152

History

The Western Valley Activities Conference was formed in 2008 with the merger of the Maple Valley Conference and the Boyer Valley Conference. The Maple Valley Conference traces its history to 1931 when the conference was founded with Onawa, Mapleton, Moville, Correctionville, Holstein, and Odebolt high schools. Kingsley joined the conference in 1944 and over time, the conference grew to 12 members so that by the time of the merger the conference included Odebolt-Arthur, Battle Creek-Ida Grove, Galva-Holstein, Woodbury Central, Kingsley-Pierson, Remsen-Union, Lawton-Bronson, Westwood, River Valley, Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto, West Monona, and Whiting.
The Boyer Valley Conference had been formed around 1960 and had many schools to consolidation over the years. After peaking at 12 schools, the conference was left with only eight in its final year of 2007: Ar-We-Va, Boyer Valley, Charter Oak-Ute, IKM, Logan-Magnolia, Manning, West Harrison, and Woodbine. With IKM and Manning entering a sport-sharing agreement, it looked like the right time for many of its members to find a new home.
In 2008, the Maple Valley Conference agreed to merge with the Boyer Valley Activities Conference by a 10–1 vote, with only Woodbury Central opposing and Lawton-Bronson abstaining. The new 19-team league would work together not only in athletics, but in music and speech as well, as the former BVAC had. In addition most of the old rivalries were kept intact by splitting the conference into two divisions with the old Maple Valley basically making up the north and the former Boyer Valley plus Whiting and West Monona forming the south.

State Champions

2009 1A Wrestling- Logan-Magnolia
2009 2A Girls Basketball- IKM-Manning
2011 2A Girls Basketball- OABCIG
2017 2A Boys Track and Field- Kingsley-Pierson/Woodbury Central
2019 2A Football- OABCIG

Membership changes

After the 2008 season, Odebolt-Arthur and Battle Creek-Ida Grove entered into a full-grade sharing agreement. Following the 2009 season, Remsen-Union left the conference, and starting in 2010, Galva-Holstein began sharing all high school functions and classes with nearby Schaller-Crestland High School, forming the new Ridge View High School, which remained in the conference.
The conference, which had spanned more than 160 miles, lost many members for the 2013-14 school year. Logan-Magnolia and IKM-Manning, the two largest schools in the southern half of the conference, moved to the Western Iowa Conference. Meanwhile, the other former Boyer Valley Conference members are joining with Coon Rapids-Bayard and five members of the Rolling Hills Conference to form the Rolling Valley Conference. Whiting moved to the of Nebraska.
In 2017, Charter Oak-Ute students returned to the conference by entering into a whole grade sharing agreement with Maple Valley Anthon-Oto.
Former Members
SchoolLocationMascotColorsYearsCurrent
Ar-We-VaWestsideRockets 2008-2013Rolling Valley Conference
Boyer ValleyDunlapBulldogs 2008-2013Rolling Valley Conference
Charter Oak-UteCharter OakBobcats 2008-2013Sharing with MVAO
IKM-ManningManningWolves 2008-2013Western Iowa Conference
Logan-MagnoliaLoganPanthers 2008-2013Western Iowa Conference
Remsen-UnionRemsenRockets 2008-2009Consolidated with MMC, War Eagle Conference
West HarrisonMondaminHawkeyes 2008-2013Rolling Valley Conference
WhitingWhitingWarriors 2008-2014Frontier Conference of Nebraska
WoodbineWoodbineTigers 2008-2013Rolling Valley Conference