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The Duneland Athletic Conference (DAC) is a high school athletic conference in Indiana serving eight members of the Indiana High School Athletic Association. Member schools are located in the counties of Lake, LaPorte, and Porter along Indiana's Lake Michigan shore. Each school is classified based on enrollment as 6A or 5A for football and 4A for basketball, the classes for the largest schools in Indiana. The Duneland Conference is also known for its gymnastics programs which have won a combined total of 35 state championship and state runner-up titles.
Members
= Current members
== Former members
== Membership timeline
=Sponsored Sports & Current Standings
History
1970: Chesterton, Portage, Valparaiso, and Hobart High School began competition as the Duneland Athletic Conference. Chesterton & Portage had been members of the Calumet Conference; Hobart & Valparaiso had been independents.
1972: Michigan City Rogers joins the DAC.
1975: Merrillville joins the conference, leaving the Lake Suburban Conference.
1976: LaPorte joins following its departure from the Northern Indiana Conference.
1993: Crown Point joins the DAC following the disbandment of the Lake Suburban Conference.
1995: Michigan City Rogers is merged with Michigan City Elston, who was a member of the Northern Indiana Conference, to form Michigan City High School.
2003: Hobart, the only non-5A football school, leaves to join the Lake Athletic Conference. Lake Central joins in place of Hobart following being independent since the disbandment of the Lake Suburban Conference in 1993. Hobart is currently with the Northwest Crossroads Conference after the 2007 disbandment of the Lake Athletic Conference.
2013: Football has a new class, 6A, meaning that the teams to move from 5A to 6A are Portage, Lake Central, Chesterton, Crown Point, Valparaiso, & Merrillville. The only teams to remain in the 5A class were LaPorte and Michigan City.
2015: LaPorte moves up to Class 6A in football based on enrollment figures.
2017: LaPorte drops back down to Class 5A in football based on enrollment figures and Fort Wayne Snider having to move up to Class 6A based on the Indiana High School Athletic Association's tournament success factor.
2003 Expansion
In 2002, five schools - East Chicago Central High School, Elkhart Central High School, Lake Central High School, Mishawaka High School, & Penn High School - submitted proposals to join the DAC when expansion talks began following Hobart's announcement it would leave to join the Lake Athletic Conference. Lake Central, Mishawaka and Penn were invited to join the DAC. Mishawaka, shortly followed by Penn, opted to not join the conference. These two schools cited wanting Elkhart Central and East Chicago Central to have been invited to join as well. This coupled with the extensive travel times to Lake County schools and the time zone difference led to their decision to remain in the Northern Indiana Conference.
Conference champions
= Football
== Boys basketball
== Girls basketball
=Champions before the 2000–01 season are unverified.
State champions
= Chesterton Trojans (13)
=1989 Wrestling
1993 Gymnastics
2000 Gymnastics
2002 Gymnastics
2008 Boys Swimming
2009 Boys Swimming
2013 Boys Swimming
2014 Boys Swimming
2018 Gymnastics
2018 Boys Soccer
2019 Gymnastics
2020 Boys Soccer
2020 Gymnastics
= Crown Point Bulldogs (11)
=1971 Boys Tennis
1984 Girls Basketball
1985 Girls Basketball
2009 Boys Wrestling
2011 Boys Soccer (2A)
2013 Boys Soccer (2A)
2017 Softball (4A)
2021 Girls Basketball (4A)
2022 Gymnastics
2022 Boys Wrestling
2023 Boys Wrestling
2024 Gymnastics
= LaPorte Slicers (12)
=1960 Boys Golf
1967 Baseball
1968 Boys Tennis
1971 Baseball
1976 Baseball
1976 Boys Golf
1978 Girls Golf
1982 Baseball
1987 Baseball (Easton National Champions)
1990 Baseball
1992 Baseball
2000 Baseball (4A)
= Lake Central Indians (8)
=1987 Boys Swimming
1992 Softball
1994 Girls Basketball
2002 Softball (3A)
2004 Softball (4A)
2010 Boys Soccer
2012 Baseball (4A)
2024 Baseball (4A)
= Merrillville Pirates (6)
=1976 Football (3A)
1986 Gymnastics
1992 Gymnastics
1993 Softball
1997 Softball
2017 Unified Track & Field
= Michigan City Wolves (1)
=1995 Volleyball
= Portage Indians (9)
=1974 Boys Cross Country
1975 Gymnastics
1977 Football (3A)
1984 Boys Cross Country
1992 Boys Cross Country
1999 Boys Cross Country
2000 Softball (3A)
2013 Gymnastics
2013 Softball (4A)
= Valparaiso Vikings (29)
=1966 Boys Cross Country
1975 Football (3A)
1981 Gymnastics
1983 Boys Cross Country
1985 Boys Cross Country
1986 Boys Cross Country
1991 Gymnastics
1994 Gymnastics
1997 Boys Cross Country
1997 Gymnastics
1998 Gymnastics
1999 Girls Cross Country
2000 Girls Cross Country
2000 Boys Cross Country
2002 Girls Cross Country
2003 Girls Cross Country
2004 Girls Cross Country
2004 Boys Soccer
2008 Gymnastics
2009 Gymnastics
2010 Gymnastics
2011 Gymnastics
2014 Gymnastics
2015 Gymnastics
2017 Gymnastics
2019 Unified Track & Field
2021 Unified Track & Field
2021 Gymnastics
2022 Football (5A)
Former Member State Champions
= Hobart Brickies (7)
=1957 Boys Cross Country
1960 Boys Cross Country
1987 Football (4A)
1989 Football (4A)
1991 Football (4A)
1993 Football (4A)
2004 Gymnastics
= Michigan City Rogers Raiders (2)
=1981 Girls Golf
1982 Girls Golf
State Runner-Up Titles
= Current members
=Chesterton Trojans (12)
1981 Wrestling
1985 Gymnastics
1995 Gymnastics
1995 Girls Cross Country
1997 Girls Cross Country
2001 Girls Soccer
2003 Gymnastics
2003 Girls Cross Country
2006 Girls Softball
2007 Boys Soccer
2009 Boys Cross Country
2016 Boys Soccer (2A)
2017 Wrestling
2022 Boys Basketball (4A)
Crown Point Bulldogs (11)
1975 Boys Cross Country
1976 Boys Cross Country
1977 Boys Cross Country
1983 Girls Basketball
1978 Boys Swimming
1997 Girls Basketball
2012 Wrestling
2014 Girls Swimming
2016 Volleyball (4A)
2017 Volleyball (4A)
2023 Football (6A)
LaPorte Slicers (10)
1949 Boys Golf
1962 Boys Golf
1963 Boys Golf
1967 Boys Golf
1973 Baseball
1973 Gymnastics
1979 Boys Tennis
1980 Girls Golf
1989 Boys Tennis
2007 Boys Cross Country
2014 Football (5A)
Lake Central Indians (13)
1990 Boys Swimming
1993 Football (5A)
1998 Girls Basketball (4A)
1999 Boys Swimming
2003 Softball (3A)
2007 Girls Cross Country
2008 Girls Cross Country
2014 Boys Basketball (4A)
2015 Softball (4A)
2018 Softball (4A)
2019 Boys Soccer (3A)
2021 Softball (4A)
2024 Girls Basketball (4A)
Merrillville Pirates (7)
1979 Gymnastics
1982 Gymnastics
1988 Gymnastics
1990 Gymnastics
1995 Boys Basketball
1996 Baseball
2010 Girls Basketball
Michigan City Wolves (0)
2016 Boys Track and Field
Portage Indians (12)
1973 Boys Cross Country
1981 Boys Cross Country
1988 Boys Cross Country
1988 Girls Cross Country
1991 Boys Cross Country
1993 Boys Cross Country
1994 Football (5A)
1995 Boys Cross Country
1998 Softball (3A)
1998 Boys Cross Country
1998 Wrestling
2001 Wrestling
Valparaiso Vikings (24)
1982 Girls Basketball
1985 Football (5A)
1989 Girls Swimming
1990 Girls Swimming
1992 Gymnastics
1994 Girls Swimming
1995 Girls Swimming
1994 Boys Basketball
1996 Girls Basketball
1996 Gymnastics
1999 Gymnastics
2000 Girls Basketball (4A)
2001 Girls Cross Country
2001 Football (5A)
2004 Gymnastics
2005 Boys Cross Country
2005 Girls Cross Country
2006 Girls Track & Field
2006 Girls Cross Country
2013 Gymnastics
2016 Gymnastics
2018 Gymnastics
2019 Football (5A)
2020 Gymnastics
= Former members
=Hobart Brickies (8)
1955 Boys Cross Country
1979 Football (3A)
1980 Football (4A)
1982 Football (4A)
1984 Football (4A)
1985 Football (4A)
1990 Football (4A)
1996 Football (4A)
Michigan City Rogers Raiders (1)
1986 Softball
See also
Hoosier Hysteria
Largest high school gyms in the United States
Related links
Northern Indiana Football History
Indiana High School Athletic Association
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Duneland Athletic Conference
- Chesterton High School
- Merrillville High School
- Michigan City High School
- Crown Point High School
- DAC
- Lake Central High School
- Indiana High School Athletics Conferences: Allen County – Metropolitan
- Lake Athletic Conference
- Lake Suburban Conference
