You could do that in a lot of rural counties. I appreciate schools that don’t switch to a direction and a county (or the like) and keep a bunch of letters in their name (BCLUW, Etc.)
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You could say the same thing about Morman Trial, according to the map, its west of Leon and north of Lamoni, in Decatur Co, while in reality is between Corydon and Chariton in Wayne Co.
not sure if you are being sarcastic or not...lol
I absolutely hate this. If its more than 3 letters, just make a region or a reference to the region.
I would like to see BCLUW versus AGWSR game one night.
I was really hoping Elkhart would be handed over to the Bondurant Farrar School district.
then we could have an actual BFE in the state.
I'm OK if it's a county designation, but I don't like the generic school names, only that any more I have no clue what they are.
I guess if I was a parent or student I probably would rather have something other than BCLUW or AGWSR and something a bit better for branding. But I see something like "Ridgeview High School" and have no clue where that is.
Yeah, probably a problem moreso in or near urban counties, but fitting in all the mascots pushes them out of place some. I wonder if next time they could use smaller mascot images (but surely would still have that issue to a degree)? Maybe some could be easily fixed?
Still a very informative and useful visual (*see copy below).
In Pottawattamie County, which includes Council Bluffs, the number of schools in Council Bluffs pushes everything east to begin with--but some others are really out of place, being pushed far from where the towns and high schools are actually located.
The Avoca Viking is shown more in Cass County, quite a ways to the east of where the high school is actually located. They might have a few students in Cass County (particularly since Walnut joined, the last town to do so), but it is moreso Pottawattamie (Avoca and Walnut and Hancock). It surely has many more students in Shelby County to the north (the towns of Shelby and Tennant), than in Cass County. The biggest town, Avoca, is actually directly south of Harlan on Highway 59 and used to (still has?) its own county courthouse (in addition to the one in Council Bluffs). It also has its own county fair (East Pottawattamie county fair).
Cass County is primarily the Atlantic Trojans, no doubt, which, like Harlan to the north, is a relatively big county seat town.
Also, Tri-Center (the Trojans) is really misplaced (Neola, Minden, Persia, and Beebeetown). The Trojan is shown in southeast Pottawattamie county, next to Cass County to the east, and Montgomery County to the south. Tri-Center high school itself is in the country (rural area), not in any town, in north-central Pottawattamie County (not southeast corner). Traveling west on I-80, the school is located just north of the intersection where I-80 turns southwest towards Council Bluffs, and where I-880 starts and continues straight west.
This intersection is just west of where the Underwood Eagle is shown on the map (Underwood is similarly out of place). Tri-Center high school itself is virtually right on the border of Pottawattamie and Harrison counties. Without looking it up, I believe the buildings are in Pottawattamie County, Minden township If I recall correctly.
The street address though is Neola, also the biggest and closest town, so it is often referred to as Neola Tri-Center in the newspaper.
So the majority of Tri-Center students are most likely in Pottawattamie County (Neola and Minden), with many also from Harrison County (Persia and Beebeetown).
Tri-Center is unlikely to have any students from Cass or Montgomery counties--the two adjacent counties where the Trojan is shown in the far southeast corner of Pottawattamie. Tri-Center is actually in north-central Pottawattamie (again). In size, Pottawattamie is second in the state, geographically, just after Kossuth County in north-central Iowa, the only other comparably-sized Iowa county.
By the way, the name Tri-Center kind of fits with the highway configuration there. When it started in the early 1960s, however, it was just Neola, Persia and Beebeetown (three towns), which is why it was named that.
In the mid- to late-1960s, after Minden High School discontinued, there was a year or two where I believe Minden high school students could choose between Avoca (where maybe most went), or Tri-Center. I don't believe it was officially part of either district yet, for a time.
* From the post with the map (#174):
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They are still a pretty good school in terms of athletics. Back to back basketball titles. They are definitely slipping in football and baseball. A lot of sports success now is built on parents shelling out money outside of school programs. Now that Valley isn't so much a rich school, it's not quite the power it was. Basketball is that way to an extent, but you only need a couple awesome players. There's still enough money with that enrollment that it's continued to be pretty good in sports overall. Just not a power like it used to be.
Valley and Urbandale are probably the "poor" schools of the CIML. I wish Urbandale would've come over with Ames to the CIML defector conference. It depends on the sport of course, but watching my kids play I would say that Urbandale would've made a good competitive conference mate. With all the open enrollment defections most of the DM public sports are largely not very competitive.
my grandpa left st joes and went to tricenter for high school. said he was tired of dating his cousins in catholic school
St. Joseph, which is/was in Neola, where there is a Catholic church, ultimately combined with St. Albert in Council Bluffs. St. Joseph was around longer than you might think (maybe just elementary for awhile). I knew quite a few who went to St. Albert (some probably St. Joseph elementary). This was before public school choice in Iowa, but if you got kicked out of Tri-Center, I think St. Albert was an option.
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I only looked at boys but probably Dowling, they dominate CC and had an insane football run. Waukee and Southeast Polk has a ton too
Waverly is still going it along but sounds like Decorah and Charles City are still looking for a home.
www.kwwl.com
Conference mediation meetings held for Waverly-Shell Rock, Decorah and Charles City
EASTERN IOWA (KWWL) -- The Northeast Iowa Conference has been around since 1920, but 2024-25 is set to be the conference's final season before dissolving. This is leaving three schools
This whole thing is still a mess.
Sounded like Charles City was close to a deal with the North Central Conference. Waverly has made their own bed and they can lay in it as far as I'm concerned.
I actually feel bad for Decorah, they have zero real options. The state should almost let them join the SW Wisconsin Conference that isn't horrible travel wise and has schools about the same size (343-525 BEDS).
Sounded like Charles City was close to a deal with the North Central Conference. Waverly has made their own bed and they can lay in it as far as I'm concerned.
I actually feel bad for Decorah, they have zero real options. The state should almost let them join the SW Wisconsin Conference that isn't horrible travel wise and has schools about the same size (343-525 BEDS).
Ankeny gets a large portion of everything to the South, where all the new construction is happening. Basically the district is Polk City and to the North and East..
There's plenty of construction that is north of town. Big money too. I've done lots of work out there.
True, big money houses are being thrown up to the North, but even then, nothing like has gone up to the south. Its a numbers game more than anything.
