• Source: Cloverbelt Conference

The Cloverbelt Conference is a high school athletic conference in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It consists of 17 schools from west central Wisconsin, located between the Eau Claire – Chippewa Falls metropolitan area and the Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area. It was formed in 1927-1928 with five members: Boyd High School, Cadott High School, Owen High School, Stanley High School, and Thorp High School. The conference is a member of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA).




Members






= Former members

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Abbotsford High School
Altoona High School
Auburndale High School
Augusta High School
Cornell High School
Elk Mound High School
Lake Holcombe High School
Mosinee High School
Nekoosa High School
Dor-Abby High School (school split "Dor" - Dorchester, Wisconsin consolidated with Colby High School)
Stanley High School (school consolidated with Boyd High School)
Boyd High School (school consolidated with Stanley High School)
Owen High School (school consolidated with Withee High School)
Withee High School (school consolidated with Owen High School)




Historical timeline


1927: Boyd, Cadott, Owen, Stanley, Thorp form conference
1928: Cornell joins
1933: Lake Holcombe, Gilman join
1937: Withee joins
1939: Cadott, Cornell, Thorp, Withee start 6 man football Cloverbelt Conference
1944: conference switches to 8 man
1945: Neillsville joins; Cadott, Cornell, Neillsville, Owen, Stanley, Thorp, Withee belong to the football version.
1946: Lake Holcombe leaves; Altoona joins; Stanley leaves football conference replaced by Greenwood
1947: conference starts playing 11 man football
1948: Boyd leaves; Fall Creek joins; Greenwood drops out of football conference
1950: Withee drops out of football conference
1951: Conference starts playing baseball, Stanley rejoins football conference
1953: Gilman joins football conference
1955: Owen and Withee consolidate, form Owen Withee, join football as well
1956: Elk Mound joins
1962: Elk Mound leaves; Colby, Dor-Abby, Loyal, Greenwood join for all sports
1964: Dor-Abby dissolves consolidation; Abbotsford joins, Conference splits into East and West for football as Altoona and Fall Creek are added
1965: Stanley and Boyd consolidate to form Stanley-Boyd; Holcombe joins for all sports
1966: Abbotsford leaves
1970: Lake Holcombe leaves
1975: Colby leaves
1978: Auburndale, Colby, Mosinee, Nekoosa join
1982: Nekoosa leaves
1986: Osseo-Fairchild joins
1990: Augusta joins
1998: Cornell leaves
2000: Auburndale leaves; Regis, McDonell join
2008: Granton, Spencer, Columbus join
2008-2009: Mosinee leaves
2014: Augusta leaves
2021: Altoona leaves, Bloomer Joins
2025: Osseo-Fairchild leaves, Elk Mound Joins




Fall sports






= Football

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In 1939, Cadott, Cornell, Thorp and Withee start playing 6 man football as the Cloverbelt Conference. In 1964, the Cloverbelt Conference was separated into two divisions, East and West. This was changed to Large and Small Divisions in 1978 when Auburndale, Colby, Mosinee, and Nekoosa joined the conference. At the end of the 2007-08 athletic season, the area underwent a major conference realignment. Some of the schools in the Cloverbelt Conference merged with some of the schools from the Marawood Conference to form the CloverWood Conference (football only). In 2016, McDonell Central opted to go to an 8 man football team that should start play in the 2018 season.
Pre-realignment:

Large Cloverbelt: Altoona, Cadott, Colby, Fall Creek, Neillsville, Osseo-Fairchild, Stanley-Boyd, Mosinee
Small Cloverbelt: Augusta, Gilman, Greenwood, Loyal, McDonell, Owen-Withee, Regis, Thorp
Post-realignment:

Cloverbelt: Colby, Stanley-Boyd, Eau Claire Regis, Altoona, Osseo-Fairchild, Fall Creek, Spencer/Columbus Catholic, Neillsville/Granton, Cadott.
CloverWood: Abbotsford, Assumption, Athens, Gilman, Greenwood, Loyal, Owen-Withee, Thorp
State champions

Cadott 1999(D-4); Colby 1998(D-4), 2008(D-5), 2011(D-5); Fall Creek 1993(D-5), 1994(D-5); Greenwood 1990(D-6); Mosinee 1980(D-4), 1981(D-4); Osseo-Fairchild 1996(D-5), 2000(D-5); Owen-Withee 1992(D-6), 1999(D-6), Regis 2003(D-7), 2016 (D-6); Stanley-Boyd 1991(D-5), 1995(D-5), 2013(D-5); Thorp 1993(D-6)




= Boys' cross country

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Altoona, Cadott, Colby/Abbotsford, Columbus Catholic, Fall Creek, Loyal/Greenwood, McDonell Central, Neillsville/Granton, Osseo-Fairchild, Owen-Withee, Regis, Spencer, Stanley-Boyd, Thorp
State champion

McDonell Central 2001(D-3)




= Girls' cross country

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Girls: Altoona, Cadott, Colby/Abbotsford, Columbus Catholic, Fall Creek, Loyal/Greenwood, McDonell Central, Neillsville/Granton, Osseo-Fairchild, Owen-Withee, Regis, Spencer, Stanley-Boyd, Thorp
State champions

Fall Creek 1997(D-3)




= Volleyball

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East Division: Colby, Columbus Catholic, Gilman, Greenwood, Loyal, Neillsville/Granton, Owen-Withee, Spencer
West Division: Altoona, Cadott, Fall Creek, McDonell Central, Osseo-Fairchild, Regis, Stanley-Boyd, Thorp
State champions

Loyal 1979(C), McDonell Central 2009(D-4), Regis 2013(D-3), Stanley-Boyd 2006(D-3)




Winter sports






= Basketball

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East Division: Colby, Columbus Catholic, Gilman, Granton, Greenwood, Loyal, Neillsville, Owen-Withee, Spencer
West Division: Altoona, Cadott, Fall Creek, McDonell Central, Osseo-Fairchild, Regis, Stanley-Boyd, Thorp
State champions-boys

Altoona 1939(C); Auburndale 1993(D-3), 2000(D-3); Fall Creek 1937(C), 1984(C), 1985(C); Greenwood 1988(C); McDonell Central 2015(D-5); Thorp 2014(D-5)
State champions-girls

Altoona 2011(D-3); Augusta 1996(D-4); Fall Creek 1985(C), 1987(C), 1988(C), 1996(D-3); Loyal 2017(D-5); Neillsville 2012(D-4); Regis 2011(D-4)




= Wrestling

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For wrestling, although there are three divisions in the WIAA, some small schools have merged programs to have enough students to compete. The Conference consists of Abbotsford/Colby, Cadott, Neillsville/Greenwood/Loyal, Osseo-Fairchild/Augusta/Fall Creek, Altoona/Regis, Spencer/Columbus Catholic, Stanley-Boyd/Owen-Withee, Thorp
State champions

Cadott 2001(D-3), 2007(D-3)




Spring sports






= Baseball

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East Division: Colby, Columbus Catholic, Gilman, Granton, Greenwood, Loyal, Neillsville, Owen-Withee, Spencer
West Division: Altoona, Cadott, Fall Creek, McDonell Central, Osseo-Fairchild, Regis, Stanley-Boyd, Thorp
State champions

Greenwood 1988(C), 1990(C), 2013(D-4)




= Golf

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Altoona, Cadott, Colby, Fall Creek, McDonell Central/Regis, Neillsville/Loyal, Osseo-Fairchild, Spencer/Columbus Catholic, Stanley-Boyd, Thorp
State champions

Mosinee 1995(D-2), Osseo-Fairchild 1994(D-3), 1995(D-3), 1996(D-3), 1999(D-3), 2000(D-3), 2003(D-3), 2004(D-3), 2006(D-3), 2013(D-3)




= Softball

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East Division: Colby/Abbotsford, Columbus Catholic, Gilman, Greenwood, Loyal, Neillsville/Granton, Owen-Withee, Spencer
West Division: Altoona, Cadott, Fall Creek, McDonell Central, Osseo-Fairchild, Regis, Stanley-Boyd, Thorp
State champions

Altoona 2001 (D-2); Loyal 1978(B), 1979(B), 1980(B); McDonell Central 2008 (D-4), 2017 (D-5); Thorp 2016(D-5)




References






External links


Cloverbelt Conference

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