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Interstate Eight Conference
ConferenceIHSA
Founded1979
No. of teams6
RegionNorthern Illinois
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Locations of each school in the Interstate Eight Conference

The Interstate Eight Conference (Interstate 8 or I–8) is an athletic conference of Illinois high schools that are members of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). The conference currently has six member schools throughout Northern Illinois that compete in 12 different sports (boys' basketball, girls' basketball, girls' volleyball, boys' golf, girls' golf, football, boys' soccer, girls' soccer, wrestling, baseball, softball, cross country, and track and field).

The Interstate Eight began in 1979 and originally had eight schools—Coal City, Dwight, Marseilles, Plano, Reed-Custer, Seneca, Wilmington, and Yorkville. Sandwich soon entered the I-8 when Marseilles dropped out.[1] In 1991, Yorkville was replaced by Lisle. In 2006 Herscher, Manteno, Peotone, and Westmont joined the conference.[1] Despite the conference growing from eight to 12 teams, the conference name remained Interstate 8. Dwight left the conference prior to the 2014–15 season while Streator joined the conference.[2][3] In 2019–20, Reed-Custer, Manteno, Peotone, Herscher, Wilmington, Seneca, Streator, Coal City, Westmont and Lisle left the conference leaving only Plano and Sandwich in the conference. That year, the conference added six schools from the soon to be defunct Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference. These included Kaneland, LaSalle-Peru, Morris, Ottawa, Rochelle, and Sycamore. These moves left Plano as the only remaining founding member of the conference.

In 2022, Sandwich High School and Plano High School announcing to leave the conference to join Kishwaukee River Conference starting in 2023–24 season. Plano was the final remaining original I8C member, completing nearly 45 seasons. This left the Interstate Eight with, ironically, only six schools. All of which are the former NI-Big 12 schools.

Most of the member schools are/were in rural/smaller towns. Former members Westmont and Lisle are suburbs of Chicago but enrollments are small in size. Westmont's population is divided between the varying schools in the area, including high schools in Darien, Woodridge, Hinsdale, Bolingbrook, Naperville, Lisle, Lombard, and Glen Ellyn. Lisle's enrollment is small, due to Lisle's relatively small size as a city, as well as being located east of Naperville, which has at least four high schools in the immediate vicinity, as well as the Glenbard schools and Wheaton-Warrenville South all being within a close proximity to the high school.

The Conference is divided into Large and Small divisions during football season and teams only play members of their division for the conference schedule. Baseball and softball are also divided into North and South divisions. In all other sports, the conference is undivided.

Members

There are six current members of the conference

Current Members

High Schools Town County Team Name Colors Joined IHSA

Classification

Kaneland High School Maple Park Kane Knights     2019 2A/3A
LaSalle-Peru High School LaSalle LaSalle Cavaliers     2019 2A/3A
Morris Community High School Morris Grundy None     2019 2A/3A
Ottawa Township High School Ottawa LaSalle Pirates     2019 2A/3A
Rochelle Township High School Rochelle Ogle Hubs     2019 2A/3A
Sycamore High School Sycamore DeKalb Spartans     2019 2A/3A


Former Members

High Schools Town County Team Name Colors Joined Left Current Conference
Coal City High School Coal City Grundy Coalers     1979 2019 Illinois Central Eight
Dwight High School Dwight Livingston Trojans     1979 2014 Tri-County
Herscher High School Herscher Kankakee Tigers     2006 2019 Illinois Central Eight
Lisle High School Lisle DuPage Lions     1991 2019 Illinois Central Eight
Manteno High School Manteno Kankakee Panthers     2002 2019 Illinois Central Eight
Marseilles High School Marseilles LaSalle Panthers     1979 1985 None (Closed in 1990)
Peotone High School Peotone Will Blue Devils     2002 2019 Illinois Central Eight
Plano High School Plano Kendall Reapers     1979 2023 Kishwaukee River
Reed-Custer High School Braidwood Will Comets     1979 2019 Illinois Central Eight
Sandwich High School Sandwich DeKalb Indians     1985 2023 Kishwaukee River
Seneca High School Seneca LaSalle Fighting Irish     1979 2018 Tri-County
Streator Township High School Streator LaSalle Bulldogs     2014 2019 Illinois Central Eight
Westmont High School Westmont DuPage Sentinels     2006 2019 Independent
Wilmington High School Wilmington Will Wildcats     1979 2019 Illinois Central Eight
Yorkville High School Yorkville Kendall Foxes     1979 1991 Southwest Prairie


Membership Timeline

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State titles

Football

Football is based on an 8 class system since 2001.

  • Plano (2006 3A, 2007 3A)
  • Coal City (1993 2A)
  • Seneca (1990 2A)
  • Wilmington (2014 3A)

Boys baseball

  • Lisle (2013 2A)
  • Wilmington (2003, 2005)
  • Reed-Custer (1985) (2016)
  • Herscher (1999) (2015)

Wrestling

  • Wilmington (2007, 2008, 2009)
  • Sandwich (1991, 1997, 1999, 2001)
  • Reed-Custer (2010,2012)

Boys basketball

  • Seneca (2005–06 A)

Boys golf

  • Dwight (1980)

Boys soccer

  • Lisle (2010 1A)

Girls soccer

  • Manteno (2009 1A)
  • Manteno (2014 1A)

Competitive cheerleading

  • Dwight (2013)
  • Wilmington(2016)

Competitive Dance Team

  • Peotone (2012 1A)

Boys cross country

Cross Country is based on a 3 class system since 2007.

  • Seneca (1989 A)
  • Kaneland (2019 AA)

Girls cross country

Cross Country is based on a 3 class system since 2007.

  • Herscher (1991 A, 1992 A, 1996 A)

Girls track and field

  • Herscher (1996)

Girls softball

  • Coal City (2010)

Girls volleyball

  • Lisle (1985)

Scholastic Bowl

Lisle (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 wins)

References

  1. ^ 1.0 1.1 Original document, "1980 Interstate Eight All Conference Softball Team", which included conference softball standings. Wilmington and Yorkville did not have softball teams in 1980.
  2. ^ "Streator gets Interstate-8 invite". Sun-Times High School Sports. 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  3. ^ Garmes, Kyle. "High school: Streator's arrival to Interstate Eight adds mileage". Retrieved 2016-09-01.

External links

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